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.

Pepe the Frog is one of the most notorious and complicated memes on the internet. Most recently, the meme has been adopted by the protesters in Hong Kong as a symbol of resistance, which makes its ...

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 ...

Longerline: In 2005, Furie, a cartoonist based in San Francisco, uploaded his first digital comic to Myspace.In the early Boy’s Club comics, Pepe the Frog was one of four unremarkable ...

1 of 2 | A Donald Trump supporter holds a sign featuring 'Pepe the Frog' at a rally for Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump in Bedford, New Hampshire on September 29, 2016.

Pepe the Frog became an unwitting and unwilling celebrity during the 2016 Presidential campaign when he was adopted as the mascot for white supremacists and alt-right forces online, ...

Matt Furie created the cartoon character Pepe the Frog in 2005 as a kind of peaceful stoner animal for his comic "Boys Club." By 2008, the frog had become a meme at 4chan.

Know Your Meme. Artist Matt Furie created Pepe the Frog, but it was stranger corners of the Internet that honed the laid-back amphibian into a general-purpose meme, complete with what may be the ...

Why Pepe the Frog’s Nazi phase doesn’t worry his creator. Last week, Furie, 37, created a single comic for the Nib as part of his new campaign to “#SavePepe.” ...

Pepe Cash, which has been around since 2016, is, itself, a Rare Pepe — though there are 701,884,009 units of Pepe Cash in circulation. The currency has a market cap of roughly $37 million.

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 ...

The new token based on “pepe the frog” meme remains one of the most researched tokens for users of blockchain analytics firm Nansen and price tracker CoinGecko. By Sage D. Young May 3, 2023.