The meme was also recently dragged into politics. Two weeks ago, Donald Trump's son posted a photoshopped photo depicting his father and Pepe the Frog as The Deplorables.

The PEPE token went from a low-budget meme project to being valued at well over 1 billion. If it were a Silicon Valley start-up, we'd be looking at a Unicorn.

Sept. 28, 2016, 2:53 AM PDT / Updated Sept. 28, 2016, 3:00 AM PDT By Alastair Jamieson 0 seconds of 1 minute, 24 secondsVolume 90% Pepe the Frog's Journey: From Internet Meme to Hate Symbol 01:25 ...

Pepe the Frog started as a character from a comic series, "Boy's Club" by Matt Furie in 2005, according to Know Your Meme. While the somewhat sad-looking frog did not have racist or antisemitic ...

Pepe the Frog, one of internet’s most popular memes, designated a hate symbol thanks to racists & haters by: CNN Wire Posted: Sep 29, 2016 / 01:58 PM CDT Updated: Sep 29, 2016 / 01:58 PM CDT ...

Feels bad man. Pepe the Frog, the anthropomorphic cartoon used as both innocuous online punchline and an anti-Semitic meme, has been classified as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League. The s… ...