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4chan’s Pepe the Frog meme was wildly popular among ‘normies’—until white nationalists decorated him with swastikas and gave him a Trump button.
Pepe the Frog is all over the internet these days, usually in obnoxious or outright racist tweets by anonymous trolls of the alt-right—and sometimes by Donald Trump and his son.The fictional ...
However, Pepe the Frog’s background is far more innocuous. The first image of Pepe featured the frog uttering the phrase, “Feels good, man.” And such was the philosophy of Pepe according to ...
In the background of the picture is Pepe the Frog, a popular internet meme that started as a comic in 2005 but was embraced by far-right groups when Trump was first running for president.
A cartoon frog became popular, then a pariah. Now the Anti-Defamation League has identified it as a hate symbol. We take a short look at the amphibious, ambiguous meme.
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… ...
The Confederate flag. Burning crosses. The Nazi swastika. Pepe the Frog. One of those may not sound like the others, but according to the Anti-Defamation League, they’re all hate symbols. On ...
White nationalist Richard Spencer, who used a frog emoji in his Twitter handle, was punched in the face while explaining the meaning of a Pepe pin to a TV crew shortly after Trump's inauguration.
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 Jewish Anti-Defamation League has added the cartoon amphibian to their hate database, saying he's been co-opted by white supremacists in the internet underworld.
His creator killed the frog in a comic strip, after the character spent much of 2016 tied to the alt-right. Pepe's sad tale is a modern parable of how awful the Internet can be.
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