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Fast Forward Alt-Right Pepe The Frog Symbol Appears In Hong Kong Protests – But Not As Hate Symbol
By the middle of the frenetic summer of 2016, the alt-right had become a term on everyone’s lips. The Forward published a list of must-know terms and symbols used by the alt-right for its cultural warfare on liberal ideals and racial diversity. At the bottom of that list: Pepe the Frog, an uncannily part-human-part-frog cartoon…
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Fast Forward InfoWars Pays $15,000 To Pepe The Frog Creator
Alex Jones’ InfoWars has paid up for its unauthorized use of a familiar cartoon frog. Cartoonist Matt Furie won a $15,000 settlement against Jones’ website for using his creation Pepe the Frog in merchandise espousing a far-right worldview, The Washington Post reports. Pepe, a teary-eyed anthropomorphic amphibian, dreamed up by Furie as a “peaceful frog-dude”…
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Fast Forward Pepe The Frog Creator Sues To Take His Meme Back From ‘Alt-Right’
Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie is taking new legal action against the “alt-right” for using illustrations of his cartoon, the amphibian character that has become an iconic meme of the far-right. Furie has protested the transformation of his cartoon character into a cartoon associated with racism and anti-Semitism and is seeking to disassociate the…
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Fast Forward ‘Alt-Right’ Icon Pepe The Frog Is ‘Officially Dead’
The online cartoon Pepe the Frog was “killed off” by its creator, seemingly in bid to stop his image being hijacked by the “alt-right.” Over the weekend, Pepe’s creator Matt Furie posted a comic strip depicting a funeral for the frog character, attended by other characters from Furie’s Boy’s Club strip. “It’s a clear declaration…
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Life The Zara ‘Pepe’ Skirt: Gaffe Or Stunt?
Josh Nathan-Kazis reported that Zara stopped selling a skirt that looked, to some, to have a “Pepe” frog design, a symbol of the white supremacist so-called “alt-right.” It’s a shredded denim miniskirt with cartoon patches. The world will probably be OK in its absence. How Pepe-like was this frog? Judge for yourself: At Reason, Elizabeth…
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Fast Forward Zara Yanks Pepe The Frog Lookalike From Website
Fashion retailer Zara has pulled a skirt from its website amid a torrent of articles suggesting that the skirt bore an image resembling Pepe the Frog. Pepe, an internet meme co-opted by the so-called “alt-right” last year, has become a widely-recognized symbol of white supremacy. The frog on the Zara skirt bears a passing resemblance…
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News As Election Arrives, Donald Trump Supporters Rally Around Anti-Semitic Pepe the Frog Meme
With just hours before the election, online supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are frantically posting about Pepe the Frog, the controversial online meme designated as a hate symbol by the Anti Defamation League. “One more day,” one Trump supporters who goes by Vendetta Vidame, wrote on Twitter, posting a meme of Pepe overlaid…
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