Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog that became a white supremacist symbol, has been killed off by its creator. (See the final strip at the bottom of this post.) Pepe’s creator and illustrator Matt Furie ...
“Boys Club” cover featuring Pepe the Frog, by Matt Furie. There are approximately 250 images, characters and illustrations in the Anti-Defamation League’s database of hate symbols. Last month, a ...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has officially declared the Pepe the Frog cartoon a hate symbol. The internet meme, created by cartoonist Matt Furie back in 2005, has recently been adopted by ...
The creator of the meme “Pepe the Frog” is speaking out in an attempt to reclaim the cartoon, whose image has been co-opted by fringe Internet trolls to advance white supremacist and anti-Semitic ...
The character was added to the database Tuesday, after Pepe the Frog was depicted as a slew of racially charged caricatures including Hitler and a Klansman, according to the group. “Once again, ...
Meet Pepe the Frog. He's the latest symbol to be added to the Anti-Defamation League's hate symbols database. Yes, Pepe — who has also come to be known as Sad Frog — joins the ranks of the swastika ...
A cartoon depiction of a sad frog that has become a popular Internet "meme" is now considered a hate symbol. The Anti-Defamation League said "Pepe the Frog" has been appropriated to express racist ...
The image of the online cartoon character was co-opted by anti-Semites and white nationalists associated with the "alt-right." (JTA) — Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image was ...
Still, it’s not entirely an accident that Pepe has been coopted in this way. For well over 100 years American artists, both racists and anti-racists, have found animal cartoons an effective way to ...
Inflatable frog costumes are selling out following the weekend's “No Kings” protests and to counter Trump’s demonization of ...