Pepe, the goggle-eyed green frog seen across thousands of message boards and Twitter avatars, has been having a tough week. On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League officially classified the green ...

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. The solemn green ...

Pepe first appeared in 2005 in the online cartoon Boy's Club, drawn by Matt Furie, and the ADL said "the majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted."Pepe was ...

On Pepe’s darkest day, September 27, 2016, the Anti-Defamation League declared that this wonderful frog — who had dedicated his life to fun, frivolity, and a kind of chemically altered agape ...

That's Pepe the Frog, a popular meme on social media, especially lately among various alt-right groups. As a result, the character has been deemed an "online hate symbol" by the Anti-Defamation ...

Furie’s Pepe, a green frog with a humanoid body, originated in the 2005 comic Boy's Club. It went viral in the years following, becoming a popular part of internet culture.

(RNS) Little green frogs are supposed to turn into handsome princes, not ugly hate symbols. Yet that is what happened to Pepe the Frog, a humble though popular comic book character, when he was ...

Pepe the Frog — a multivalent green cartoon used in Internet culture as a vehicle for a wide range of emotions and ideas — has over recent months become particularly associated with racism ...

Pepe’s creator Matt Furie is suing InfoWars over posters featuring the green frog. The poster features Pepe grouped together with President Donald Trump along with Milo Yiannopoulos and other ...

In September, the Anti-Defamation League said it was formally declaring Pepe the Frog a hate symbol. Matt Furie, an artist based in L.A.’s Koreatown neighborhood, created Pepe the Frog back in 2005.