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 ...

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When Matt Furie created the cartoon character Pepe the Frog in 2005 for his comic Boy’s Club, the lighthearted cartoonist never imagined his quirky creation would one day be appropriated by the ...

WASHINGTON — The creator of Pepe the Frog is getting more aggressive in his legal campaign against websites, books and phone apps that he says use the fun-loving cartoon figure to espouse hate ...

Pepe the Frog, one of internet’s most popular memes, designated a hate symbol thanks to racists & haters by: CNN Wire Posted: Sep 29, 2016 / 01:58 PM CDT Updated: Sep 29, 2016 / 01:58 PM CDT ...

This morning, Hillary Clinton’s official campaign website published an explainer about a cartoon frog. His name is Pepe. You know Pepe. He’s that forest green, anthropomorphic frog with the ...

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.

As the cartoon became widely distributed, Groening scaled back the profanity. "There are things worth offending people over," he said, "and that wasn't one of them." ...