If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie ...

Furie created Pepe the Frog about a decade ago in his psychedelic comic “Boy’s Club,” which depicted the character as a chill, “feels good, man” amphibian — before Pepe was launched ...

Pepe the Frog meme designated 'hate symbol' by the Anti-Defamation League for its popularity amongst Alt-Right. Although the meme did not have racist origins, the white supremacist segment of the ...

But the truth is, the frog’s creator is hoping Pepe might outgrow his Neo-Nazi rebellious stage, telling the Washington Post recently, “I think he’s on a weird manifestation right now ...

But Pepe's creator says his frog, and the online phenomenon it spawned, is bigger than that. ... And they don't say that I was the creator of this weird racist version of it, but, regardless, ...

Then the 4chan guys started flooding the Internet with weird Pepe memes to kind of reclaim him as their own. And this is just what I've gleamed from the Internet. I had nothing to do with this at all.

The new documentary “Feels Good Man” follows Matt Furie, the good-natured creator of the Pepe the Frog character, who inadvertently became a symbol of hate among the Trump crowd.

One was a frog named Pepe, whom Furie has described as "a chill frog who represents doing nothing." Twelve years later, ... In other words, the internet is weird as hell.

When Furie was created him back in 2005, Pepe was simply a laidback, anthropomorphic frog who talked about how things are cool and stuff. But the internet makes everything weird.

The ADL notes that Pepe the Frog's use as a hate symbol depends on context. Trump's post included a phrase associated with QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory movement.