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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 ...

The frog first appeared in Matt Furie's Boy's Club cartoons in 2005. Known as the “sad frog,” Pepe was often depicted as a mellow character with the slogan “feels good, man,” among others.

Pepe the Frog is dead, killed off by his own creator after he watched Pepe turn from a wholesome meme into a symbol co-opted by neo-Nazis for the alt-right. Pepe was created by cartoonist Matt ...

Pepe the Frog dates back to 2006, when it appeared in a Matt Furie comic called “ Boy’s Club.” Several years later, due to the Cambrian-like explosion of social media, the character quickly ...

Pepe went from this “feels good, man” frog, which was largely an innocuous image for people to respond to online, before emojis, before the flexible discourse of text messaging.

Furie's Kickstarter is looking for $10,000 to begin again. "We understand there's no way to fully control the internet or how people decide to use Pepe the Frog," Furie wrote.

The cartoonist who created Pepe The Frog has killed off the character in a comic strip, after months of trying to rehabilitate the frog after it was co-opted by the alt-right.

Second, Pepe the frog is not usually racist. There's nothing inherently hateful about the original image. "He's just a chill frog," as Furie told The Atlantic .

Reminding readers that Pepe was "a blissfully stoned frog in my comic book Boy’s Club, where he enjoyed a simple life of snacks, soda and pulling his pants all the way down to go pee," Furie ...