Pepe the Frog

Examples

A laughing Pepe face with glasses is layered over a larger laughing Pepe face.

Pepe laughing with glasses

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No visible caption — A laughing Pepe face with glasses is layered over a larger laughing Pepe face.

Pepe character: Matt Furie.

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Two Pepe frogs in blue shirts, one riding on the other’s shoulders beneath a blue sky; small visible artist/date mark.

Everything will be okay

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No visible caption — Two Pepe frogs in blue shirts, one riding on the other’s shoulders beneath a blue sky; small visible artist/date mark.

Visible artist/date mark >David Burt 2019; Pepe character: Matt Furie.

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Pepe is redrawn as One Piece’s Usopp, wearing goggles and headphones.

Usopp Pepe

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No visible caption — Pepe is redrawn as One Piece’s Usopp, wearing goggles and headphones.

Pepe character: Matt Furie.

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Pepe smiles and gestures toward the viewer.

Feels good man

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feels good man

Pepe character: Matt Furie.

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About & sources

Matt Furie’s comic frog becomes a family of reaction faces and artworks.

Date

Matt Furie created Boy’s Club in 2005; reaction-image circulation is documented in 2008.

History

Matt Furie’s Boy’s Club began as a photocopied zine about four roommates. In his 2016 Atlantic interview, he traced “feels good man” to a bathroom joke: Landwolf questions Pepe’s habit of lowering his pants all the way to pee. Readers detached the happy reaction from the comic; sad and smug faces followed. New York magazine’s contemporary profile describes the comic’s 2005 MySpace publication and later message-board remixes. During the 2016 US election, white supremacists appropriated some variants. The ADL explicitly says that most uses are non-bigoted and that meaning must be judged in context, not inferred from the frog alone. Furie and the ADL launched #SavePepe that autumn to reclaim the character. The selected local examples are non-extremist reaction/artwork variants.

The Atlantic · Matt Furie interview (2016)
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