If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie ...

Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie, which took off in the MySpace era, becoming one of the most popular memes ...

Pepe the Frog, a character born from manga, became famous as an internet meme through Myspace, Gaia Online, 4chan, etc. from around 2008, and is counted as one of the most famous internet memes in ...

Several left-wing publications have spread the claim that Pepe the Frog is purely a “white supremacist” icon. Pepe was once considered so innocuous that Katy Perry tweeted a picture of him out ...

Pepe the Frog meme designated 'hate symbol' by the Anti-Defamation League for its popularity amongst Alt-Right Although the meme did not have racist origins, the white supremacist segment of the ...

Matt Furie, an artist and children's book author, created the now-infamous frog as part of his "Boy's Club" series on MySpace in 2005. Pepe took on a life of its own online as a meme, before being ...

The pop icon wrung her hands Saturday over Pepe the Frog, the coarsely drawn amphibian whose sinister, slimy smile has come to embody the internet’s white supremacy movement — and winked from ...

Feels bad man. Pepe the Frog, the anthropomorphic cartoon used as both innocuous online punchline and an anti-Semitic meme, has been classified as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League. The s… ...

About 2015, things took a turn for the good-natured frog. White supremacists on the website 4chan launched a campaign to “reclaim Pepe” for the alt-right.

THE creator of the infamous “Pepe the Frog” character that’s been plastered across news channels since the 2016 United States presidential election is trying to "reclaim" him from the internet.