The meme has also spawned something of a mini-culture around the frog, where even the "OK" hand signal is an alt-right call back to it. There are websites, merchandise and global usages of Pepe as ...

Pepe the Frog—what started as an innocent cartoon character has evolved into a complex symbol of internet culture. Born from ...

It wasn't meant to be like this. Pepe the Frog, that smiling green amphibian that's been co-opted by white nationalists and officially deemed a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), was ...