On September 29th, 2016, Matt Furie expressed his disappointment with the alt-right's use of the meme, along with the Anti-Defamation League's citation, in an interview with CBC Radio, during which he said that he was the character's creator but did not specify that he had no part in making "this weird racist version of it." On September 12th, a post mocking the NBC article reached the front page of /r/KotakuInAction. That day, several news sites published articles referring to Pepe as a "white supremacist meme" and "white national symbol," including The Hill, Vanity Fair, Talking Points Memo and CNN (shown below). The following day, NBC News published an article about the photoshop, which referred to Pepe the Frog as a "popular white nationalist symbol" based on a statement made by Southern Poverty Law Center's Heidi Beirich.
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posted a photoshopped movie poster on Instagram of the 2010 action film The Expendables, which features various prominent conservatives and Pepe the Frog with the title "The Deplorables" (shown below). On September 9th, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that half Donald Trump's supporters were in a "basket of deplorables" during a speech held at a private fundraiser. On May 26th, 2016, The Daily Beast published an article titled “How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol.“ The article included an interview with Twitter user identified as an "anonymous white nationalist," who claimed there was a "campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies" by creating anti-Semitic illustrations of the frog character. In the coming days, the news sites The Daily Dot, Vox and IBI Times published articles about the tweet, referring to the Smug Pepe illustration as a "racist meme" and "white supremacist symbol." Over the next 24 hours, the tweet gained over 9,000 likes and 6,200 retweets.
On January 9th, 2016, the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom tweeted a picture of Smug Pepe in a tweet reaction to news about an upcoming meeting between British Prime Minister Theresa May and United States President-elect Donald Trump (shown below). The tweet, shown below, drew criticism and was deleted, causing the account to tweet, “Our community manager was unaware of the recent evolution of the Pepe meme’s meaning and this tweet was promptly deleted.” On January 2nd, 2017, the Twitter account for the fast food chain restaurant Wendy’s responded to a user who asked “Got any memes?” with a picture of Pepe the Frog drawn in the likeness of the Wendy’s mascot. Over the next three years, the tweet received more than 17,000 likes and 10,500 retweets. On November 8th, 2014, Katy Perry tweeted a picture of Pepe crying with the caption " Australian jet lag got me like" (shown below). On December 18th, the PepeTheFrogNet Tumblr blog was launched. On December 7th, a Facebook page for "Pepe the Frog" was created. On October 25th, the /r/pepethefrog subreddit was launched for content featuring the frog character.
On July 23rd, the Pepe the Frog Instagram feed was created. On June 13th, 2014, the PepeTheFrogBlog Tumblr blog was launched. On January 25th, 2011, an interview with Furie was published on Know Your Meme, in which he discussed the origins of Pepe the Frog. In 2009, an edited version featuring a distraught-looking Pepe with the caption "Feels bad man" began circulating as a reaction image on 4chan and the Body Building Forums. posted the "Feels Good Man" comic to the site. On February 4th, Something Awful contributor Jon Hendren (a.k.a. Throughout 2008, Pepe was mostly associated with the "Feels Good Man" reaction image.
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