“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 ...
If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off ...
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 ...
NECA has just shown off a ton of new pics and details for their second TMNT cartoon Frog pack. We already got the release of Rasputin and Genghis Frog earlier this year, and now we have details on ...
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A Pepe cartoon ...
Editor's note: In July, CNET News published a special report exploring how hate spreads over the web. The timing of the package -- "iHate: Intolerance takes over the internet" -- was uncanny. As we ...
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 ...
Pepe the Frog, the “once peaceful frog dude” meme that was co-opted by trolls and transformed into a symbol of racism and bigotry, has croaked. Artist and illustrator Matt Furie, who originated the ...
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in an apparent rebuke to the alt-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A ...