Pepe the Frog — a multivalent green cartoon used in Internet culture as a vehicle for a wide range of emotions and ideas — has over recent months become particularly associated with racism, ...
Former President Trump shared an image containing Pepe the Frog, a meme designated as a hate symbol by the ADL. The ADL notes that Pepe the Frog's use as a hate symbol depends on context. Trump's post ...
Learn how internet memes became a super weapon in the propaganda war, morphing Pepe the Frog into a Trump-supporting Nazi. The creator of Pepe the Frog has made it known, several times over, that he ...
Cartoonist Matt Furie sketches out his creation, Pepe the Frog. The new documentary Feels Good Man shows how the frog went from innocent cartoon character to powerful political tool. (Kurt Keppeler) ...
"I didn't even know what a meme was," confesses cartoonist Matt Furie in the documentary "Feels Good Man," demonstrating just how ill-equipped he was to resist the dark forces that engulfed him and ...
This review has taken longer to write than I, or my editors, expected. In the last few days my time has been spent digesting the insidious darkness that characterizes “Feels Good Man.” This ...
First came denial. Speaking to the Daily Dot in mid-September, Furie, who created Pepe for his Boy’s Club comic in 2005, was convinced that the frog’s adoption by Trump supporters was “just a phase.” ...
Gentleness is the first impression leading us into “Feels Good Man,” which opens with artist Matt Furie stooping to pick up a tiny amphibian by a local lake, smiling as it hops up his arm. From there ...
“I didn’t even know what a meme was,” confesses cartoonist Matt Furie in the documentary “Feels Good Man,” demonstrating just how ill-equipped he was to resist the dark forces that engulfed him and ...
"I didn't even know what a meme was," confesses cartoonist Matt Furie in the documentary "Feels Good Man," demonstrating just how ill-equipped he was to resist the dark forces that engulfed him and ...