Pepe the Frog
Pepe the Frog is a frog character created by the American artist and cartoonist Matt Furie that was introduced in 2005 with his comic Boy's Club. In 2008, the frog began being used as a meme on 4chan and quickly spread to other sites like Reddit, Tumblr, Twitch, and Discord.
In 2015, Internet trolls began using the meme to promote alt-right and racist-related groups. To take back the popular meme, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and Matt Furie created a #SavePepe media campaign in 2016 to prevent Pepe from being used to promote hate. In 2020 the documentary, Feels Good Man, was released, documenting Furie's attempts at regaining control over Pepe the Frog.
Pepe the Frog may also be called the Sad Frog, Smug Pepe, and other names to describe how the frog appears.