A Donald Trump supporter holding a poster of Pepe the Frog, which has become a symbol of the “alt-right” movement, at a campaign event in Bedford, N.H., Sept. 29, 2016. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 creator of Pepe The Frog is suing InfoWars, the conspiracy theory website headed by Alex Jones, for selling merchandise featuring his amphibious character. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in Los ...
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 ...
A man wears a Pepe the Frog sweatshirt (photo credit: REUTERS) ByJTA MAY 9, 2017 15:55 Updated: MAY 9, 2017 15:59 Pepe the Frog, an online cartoon character whose image has been co-opted by ...