Pepe the Frog is a frog character created by Matt Furie for his comic series called Boy’s Club. The frog creature has been re-illustrated variously and used as emotional reactions on social media sites such as 4chan, Reddit and Twitter.
A controversial article about the frog went internationally viral on May 26th, 2016. It was published by The Daily Beat and titled “How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol.“ It was about how white nationalists are recreating the image of Pepe the Frog as a campaign for anti-semitics.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campagign The war started when Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign branded the cartoon frog a “symbol of white supremacy”.
Pepe the cartoon frog has been depicted as a Hate Symbol alongside the Nazi swastika, the burning cross, and the Ku Klux Klan logo.
Users on Twitter have attempted to take back their beloved cartoon frog meme, by protesting the media’s coverage, using hashtags such as #TheWarOnMemes.
