The comic centered around crude bodily humor, pot smoking, and psychedelics. ... So when she denounced Pepe the frog as a symbol of hatred, the internet practically drowned in laughter.

"Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by artist and illustrator Matt Furie. ... eating pizza, smoking pot and being harmlessly gross. FOR THE RECORD, Oct. 11, ...

Created by artist Matt Furie in 2005 as a character in his Boy's Club online comic, Pepe—originally a chilled out, weed-smoking frog who frequently uses the catchphrase, "feels good man"—was ...

As Matt Furie conceived him, Pepe the Frog was mellow, ... Boys Club,” in which a group of offbeat friends lived in perpetual slackerdom, eating pizza, playing video games and smoking weed.

On Pepe’s darkest day, September 27, 2016, the Anti-Defamation League declared that this wonderful frog — who had dedicated his life to fun, frivolity, and a kind of chemically altered agape ...

In 2016, the Anti-Defamation League added Pepe the Frog to its list of hate symbols, though the organization notes many uses of this meme are still not rooted in bigotry or hate. "The number of ...

The ADL notes that Pepe the Frog's use as a hate symbol depends on context. Trump's post included a phrase associated with QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory movement.

Pepe was one of the central figures of the comic “Boys Club,” in which a group of offbeat friends lived in perpetual slackerdom, eating pizza, playing video games and smoking weed.