But sometimes this versatility creates something darker. This is Pepe the Frog, one of the most popular internet memes of all time. It's now considered a symbol of hate, according to the Anti ...

Pepe’s original creator, Matt Furie, recently killed his infamous frog, by drawing a strip of him lying dead in a casket. Pepe may be dead inside the world of Furie’s comic strip, but online ...

Denizens of the darker corners of the Internet turned an innocent frog comic into a hate symbol of the "deplorable" alt-right. "Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by ...

When Matt Furie created his cartoon Pepe the Frog, he never imagined the laid-back amphibian might one day be considered a hate symbol. But that's what the Anti-Defamation League says the comic ...

Beloved internet meme Pepe the Frog has gone through various incarnations over the years, most of them innocuous and amusing. But recent appropriations of the smirking green frog as Adolf Hitler ...

Other times he looks like a smugly grinning jerk. The thing about Pepe the Frog is that he can be whatever you want him to be — a stoner icon, a symbol of hatred and bigotry, a beacon of democracy.

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 ...