Known as the “sad frog,” Pepe was often depicted as a mellow character with the slogan “feels good, man,” among others. Just a year ago, celebrities like Katy Perry shared the meme ...

And it's very sad because before Pepe was labeled a hate symbol, it used to be a really, really good meme. There was a whole absurdist play-acting bit that played out online in which various Pepe ...

Soon, Pepe memes -- wink-and-nudge jokes in the form of images -- popped up on 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr and other social media sites. He was sometimes known as the "sad frog." ...

He said that he liked how Pepe, in the original comic, is “positive and chill.” “Feels Good, Man” was one of the early Pepe memes, before the internet created Sad Pepe.

The internet meme Pepe the Frog has been labeled as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League. In a news release on Tuesday, ADL announced the addition of the sad frog to its “Hate on Displa… ...

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… ...

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 ...

Then, in March 2015, somebody dumped more than 1,200 variations of the meme on Imgur. In fact, some of the divisive Pepes that the alt-right use can be found in this huge Pepe dump.

#FreeSadFrogs ⚔️ — Sad Frogs District (@SadFrogsD) August 16, 2021 It is unclear how this DMCA claim will play out, as the project’s artwork doesn’t appear to directly depict Pepe the Frog.

The images of Pepe that are on the [ADL] website are OBVIOUSLY racist to anyone who seems them, there is no hidden agenda — it's just right there: a small group of anonymous idiots jerk off all day in ...