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.

He was sometimes known as the "sad frog." Before long, Pepe went mainstream. In 2014, singer Katy Perry tweeted a crying Pepe after landing jet-lagged in Australia.

The Sad Frogs collection does seem at least reminiscent of Matt Furie’s art, in that the frogs appear to be very much stylistically derived from Pepe and seem like they have the potential to be ...

“Pepe was never intended to be used as a symbol of hate,” ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said. “The sad frog was meant to be just that, a sad frog.

But the sad frog, once used to illustrate everyday grievances, became more sinister this year when white supremacists began pairing him with hateful messages, the Anti-Defamation League reported.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A series of images commonly used on internet message boards depicting a cartoon frog were designated as hate symbols by the Anti-Defamation League.

The “Sad Frogs District” is an NFT project containing 7,000 programmatically generated Sad Frog NFTs from a selection of around 200 traits. The artwork depicted in the NFTs may draw some ...

Pepe the Frog, also referred to as the “sad frog meme,” did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations when he first appeared on the Internet in 2005 in artist Matt Furie’s “Boy’s ...