Pepe the Frog, and his creator Matt Furie, were once both “chill” about how the Internet turned the cartoon slacker into a meme. Even as white nationalists and trolls started to adopt the Pepe ...

Pepe the Frog had previously been declared a hate symbol by the ADL. An attendee holds up a sign of Pepe the Frog during a campaign event with Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Sept. 29, 2016.

Artist and Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie draws Pepe. [Photo: courtesy of Kurt Keppeler/PBS] Pepe was being transformed into a terrorist, a Nazi, and a skinhead. In 2014, when Elliot Rodger went ...