The frog first appeared in Matt Furie's Boy's Club cartoons in 2005. Known as the “sad frog,” Pepe was often depicted as a mellow character with the slogan “feels good, man,” among others.

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 is a cartoon green frog that became popular as a meme in the late 2000s. He was initially famous simply as a funny image, and his sad personality was used as a way of reacting to ...

However, what began as “the sad frog meme” has recently it has been appropriated by far right users to promote their hate on sites such as Reddit, 4chan and 8chan.

According to the ADL, the cartoon, also known as the "sad frog meme," proliferated in online forums such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit along with other memes promoting "anti-Jewish, bigoted and ...

Pepe, also known as the "sad frog meme," recently has been depicted as Adolf Hitler and a Ku Klux Klan member. Images of Pepe on the ADL database also show him posing outside the Auschwitz ...

Pepe the Frog, also referred to as the “sad frog meme,” did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations when he first appeared on the Internet in 2005 in artist Matt Furie’s “Boy’s ...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced this week that the Pepe the Frog meme, sometimes called the "sad frog meme," is now part of its online "Hate on Display" database, which lists over 150 ...