“Boys Club” cover featuring Pepe the Frog, by Matt Furie. There are approximately 250 images, characters and illustrations in the Anti-Defamation League’s database of hate symbols. Last month, a ...
If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. Pepe the frog wasn’t always a Nazi sympathizer. The friendly amphibian started off ...
Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog that became a white supremacist symbol, has been killed off by its creator. (See the final strip at the bottom of this post.) Pepe’s creator and illustrator Matt Furie ...
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A Pepe cartoon ...
Still, it’s not entirely an accident that Pepe has been coopted in this way. For well over 100 years American artists, both racists and anti-racists, have found animal cartoons an effective way to ...
Editor's note: In July, CNET News published a special report exploring how hate spreads over the web. The timing of the package -- "iHate: Intolerance takes over the internet" -- was uncanny. As we ...
The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in an apparent rebuke to the alt-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol. A ...
NECA has just shown off a ton of new pics and details for their second TMNT cartoon Frog pack. We already got the release of Rasputin and Genghis Frog earlier this year, and now we have details on ...
Pepe, the green, cartoon frog who some believed was a symbol of white supremacy, is dead. The creation of cartoonist Matt Furie, Pepe was shown in a recent comic strip dead in an open casket with his ...
We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,980,791-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Ol’ Rip The Horned Toad What it’s about: The most famous lizard in American history. In ...
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