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 ...

Those who have already made their purchases aren’t ready to throw the frog out with the swamp water. Carson Somerville, a 17-year-old from Jeffersonville, Indiana, bought his Pepe T-shirt before ...

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.

France’s alt-right has turned Pepe the frog into Pepe Le Pen. After Trump’s election, online groups are using familiar memes to troll opponents and build support for Marine Le Pen ...

Pepe started his life as a laid-back cartoon frog but memes transformed him into an alt-right villain. The evolution of this cultural phenomenon is emblematic of the relationship between online ...

Pepe the Frog, the meme that was transformed from a “once peaceful frog dude” into a symbol of hatred and racism by the far-right, has croaked. IE 11 is not supported.

We built that association,” a white supremacist Twitter user told The Daily Beast in 2016 of the campaign to make Pepe a gateway meme to the alt-right. Furie was initially casual about the frog ...

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.

Frog History. In one of Furie's early comics, he portrayed Pepe standing up, urinating with his pants fully removed. "Feels good, man," was the frog's explanation for his behavior.

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.

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 ...