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 ...

Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character turned Internet meme, has been added to the Anti-Defamation League’s database of hate symbols. The character was added to the database Tuesday, after Pepe the ...

Pepe the frog, the once-innocent cartoon that was appropriated as a mascot of the alt-right, is at the center of a new legal battle. CNN values your feedback 1.

In 2016, the Anti-Defamation League added Pepe the Frog to its list of hate symbols, though the organization notes many uses of this meme are still not rooted in bigotry or hate. "The number of ...

Pepe the Frog Joins Swastika, Burning Cross as Hate Symbol Published Sep 30, 2016 at 10:33 AM EDT Updated Oct 05, 2016 at 11:16 AM EDT Pepe the Frog has been killed off by its creator.

Pepe the Frog is the creation of 38-year-old cartoonist Matt Furie, who declined to be interviewed for this story. The anthropomorphic frog first appeared 12 years ago in Furie's web comic Boy's Club.

Before he was co-opted by hate groups, dressed in Nazi regalia and turned into a hate symbol, Pepe was the Internet’s chillest frog, the embodiment of “feels good, man.” Now, his creator is ...

Pepe began life in the early 2000s as a laid-back frog with stoner eyes and a crew of anthropomorphic roommates in a comic that Mr. Furie drew from 2005 to 2012.

A legal fight involving the alt-right, Trump voters, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful law firms, and the website 4chan is brewing.