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.

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.

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 ...