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Pepe the Frog is a popular internet meme used in a variety of contexts. In recent years it has also been appropriated by white supremacists, particularly those from the "alt right," who use in racist, antisemitic or other hateful contexts. ... or if it appears in a context containing bigoted or offensive language or symbols, then it may have ...

Denizens of the darker corners of the Internet turned an innocent frog comic into a hate symbol of the "deplorable" alt-right. "Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by ...

Pepe the Frog is commonly “used by haters on social media to suggest racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted notions,” the ADL said in a statement announcing the hate-symbol designation. “Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users ...

Pepe became a tongue-in-cheek symbol of the “alt-right” fringe movement and its loosely connected brand of white nationalism, neo-Nazism and anti-immigration. Pepe memes promoting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign became so ubiquitous that Trump himself tweeted an image blending his likeness with the cartoon frog in October 2015.

Pepe the Frog is one of the most prolific images on the Internet. A new documentary follows the frog's creator, cartoonist Matt Furie, as he fights to regain control over his character.

The wider world wants to know why a global internet meme called Pepe the Frog has been put on a list of hate symbols.

This is Pepe the Frog, one of the most popular internet memes of all time. It's now considered a symbol of hate, according to the Anti-Defamation League. But it wasn't always like this.

So when she denounced Pepe the frog as a symbol of hatred, the internet practically drowned in laughter. But this was the general public's first proper introduction to Pepe, and first impressions ...

The Anti-Defamation League lists a number of symbols used by hate groups. Now among them is a cartoon frog named Pepe — but how did this odd image come to be associated with hate speech?

Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog’s latest incarnation as a symbol of white hate groups has landed him on the ADL’s list of hate symbols.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) declared Tuesday the popular internet meme Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog derived from an early 2000s comic strip character, to be a hate symbol. But it did not ...

In October 2016, Furie partnered with the Anti-Defamation League to launch the #SavePepe campaign, to “reclaim Pepe as a symbol for peace, love, and acceptance.” ... Before he was hijacked as a hate meme, the suit says, Pepe “was a peaceful frog-dude — a kind and blissful cartoon character, who lived alongside three animal roommates.” ...

Pepe the Frog is a popular internet meme used in a variety of contexts. In recent years it has also been appropriated by white supremacists, particularly those from the "alt right," who use in racist, antisemitic or other hateful contexts. ... or if it appears in a context containing bigoted or offensive language or symbols, then it may have ...

The Pepe meme hate symbol page includes images of the frog in a Klan uniform, dressed as Hitler, accompanied by racial slurs, and in front of the burning twin towers. Recently, Donald Trump and ...

A popular internet meme has joined the ranks of the swastika and the burning cross in the New York-based Anti-Defamation League's hate symbol database. Pepe the Frog, an odd-looking cartoon frog ...

Pepe the Frog (/ ˈ p ɛ p eɪ / PEP-ay) is a comic character and Internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie.Designed as green anthropomorphic frog with a humanoid body usually wearing a blue tee-shirt, Pepe originated in Furie's 2005 webcomic Boy's Club. [2] The character became an Internet meme when his popularity steadily grew across websites such as Myspace, Gaia Online, and 4chan from ...

T he Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has declared a popular internet meme depicting a cartoon frog to be a hate symbol.. Pepe the Frog’s beginnings were unoffensive: he is the creation of comic ...

Q 6:35 How Pepe the Frog went from a symbol of idleness to a symbol of hate Originally published on October 31, 2016 "The fact that I created Pepe is just a sidenote," artist and illustrator Matt ...

Among the characters in the trippy series was Pepe the Frog, a peaceful, laid-back character with green skin, red lips, and bulging eyes. [6] By 2008, Pepe had managed to catch on as one of the most popular memes across various internet forums, most notably, MySpace, Gaia Online, and 4chan. [7]