Pepe the Frog was created by American artist and cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005. It became an Internet meme when its popularity grew across Myspace, Gaia Online and 4chan in 2008. In the 2010s, the character’s image was appropriated as a symbol of the alt-right movement, as well as by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League included Pepe in its hate symbol database in 2016, but said most instances of Pepe were not used in a hate-related context.
About Pepe the Frog in brief
Pepe the Frog was created by American artist and cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005. It became an Internet meme when its popularity grew across Myspace, Gaia Online and 4chan in 2008. In the 2010s, the character’s image was appropriated as a symbol of the alt-right movement, as well as by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League included Pepe in its hate symbol database in 2016, but said most instances of Pepe were not used in a hate-related context. In 2019, Pepe was used by protesters in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. Furie has expressed his dismay at Pepe being used as a hate symbol and has sued organisations for doing so. In 2016, there was an campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies and turn it into a white nationalist icon. In January 2017, Pepe’s face was used in response to Theresa May’s response to the Trump campaign’s supposed promotion of white supremacy. In 2014, images of Pepe was shared on social media by celebrities such as Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. Since 2014, \”Rare Pepes\” have been posted on the \”meme market\” as if they were trading cards. These images, sometimes as physical paintings, were sold on eBay and posted on Craigslist. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the meme was connected to Donald Trump’s campaign.
In October 2015, Trump retweeted a Pepe representation of himself, associated with a video called \”You Can’t Stump the Trump \”. Later in the election, Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. posted a parody movie poster of The Expendables on Twitter and Instagram titled \”The Deplorables\”, a play on Hillary Clinton’s controversial phrase \”basket of deplorables\”. In 2015, Pepe was #6 on Daily News and Analysis’s list of the most important memes and the most retweeted meme on Twitter. It has been described as the meme’s “permanent home” on 4chan’s b board. The meme took off among 4chan users, who adapted Pepe’s. face and catchphrase to fit different scenarios and emotions, such as melancholy, anger, and surprise. In 2008, the page containing Pepe and the catchphrase was scanned and uploaded to 4chan. Originally a black-and-white line drawing, Pepe became green with brown lips, sometimes in a blue shirt. In the comic, Pepe is seen urinating with his pants pulled down to his ankles. A common saying in comics of Pepe is enraged reee, often used for comedic effect of Pepe becoming or being enraged. Pepe became an in-joke on Internet forums.
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