Late last year, Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie decided to run an NFT auction, selling off an image of the controversial character in which it was waist-deep in a pool, its ass-crack peeping over the ...
You have to sympathize with Matt Furie. The Boy's Club artist created Pepe the Frog as a positive, mellow character, but the amphibian got hijacked by the "alt-right" and became virtually synonymous ...
Pepe the Frog is an anthropomorphic cartoon amphibian with exaggerated features and the sarcastic smirk of someone who knows something you don’t. For years, the popular internet meme circulated on ...
What can you do when your favorite frog gets away from you? When Matt Furie drew Pepe the Frog for a short-lived magazine in 2005, he had no way of knowing the character would become a mascot for the ...
There’s plenty of stuff that’s been banned from Apple’s App Store for violating its guidelines against apps that contain anything “offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, or in ...
Regardless of who you are, you’ve probably seen Pepe’s smug, fat-lipped face smirking at you from your monitor. Perhaps he randomly popped up on your Facebook timeline, headlining a meme, or even made ...
Pepe the Frog, the meme that was transformed from a “once peaceful frog dude” into a symbol commonly appropriated by racist or bigoted internet memes, has croaked. Pepe’s inventor, artist and ...
"It got so big that you couldn't reverse it." Ready Fictions has debuted an official trailer for award-winning documentary Feels Good Man, from filmmaker / animator Arthur Jones. This originally ...
Pepe, the involuntarily appropriated alt-right cartoon frog, was laid to rest this weekend. His death was both a filicide and a mercy killing. His creator Matt Furie, having seen the rudderless, ...
Think of "hate symbols" and a few icons come to mind: swastikas, burning crosses and certain numbers, slogans and hand signs used by white supremacist or other hate groups. On Monday, a popular ...
A Denton ISD administrator who self-published a children's book featuring Pepe the Frog says he didn't know the character was an alt-right symbol until after the book came out. Rodriguez Middle School ...