In the comic, Pepe is seen urinating with his pants pulled down to his ankles and the catchphrase 'feels good man' was his rationale. He posted his comic in a series of blog posts on Myspace in 2005. The progenitor of Boy's Club was a zine Furie made on Microsoft Paint called Playtime, which included Pepe as a character. Its usage as an Internet meme came from his comic Boy's Club #1. Pepe the Frog was created by American artist and cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005. –Matt Furie, 2015 interview with The Daily Dot Each comic is sacred, and the compassion of my readers transcends any differences, the pain, and fear of 'feeling good'.' I find complete joy in physically, emotionally, and spiritually serving Pepe and his friends through comics.

'My Pepe philosophy is simple: 'Feels good man.' It is based on the meaning of the word Pepe: 'To go Pepe'. Pepe remains a recognizable and familiar sight on social media platforms such as 4chan, Twitch, Reddit, and Discord, where images are modified into custom Pepe-based emoji. Furie has welcomed the use of Pepe by Hong Kong protesters. Despite being used in a political context, Pepe the Frog's use in Hong Kong is not perceived as being connected with alt-right ideology. In 2019, Pepe was used by protesters in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. Since then, Furie has expressed his dismay at Pepe being used as a hate symbol and has sued organizations for doing so. The Anti-Defamation League included Pepe in its hate symbol database in 2016, but said most instances of Pepe were not used in a hate-related context. Originally an apolitical character, Pepe was appropriated from 2015 to 2016 onward as a symbol of the alt-right movement. Since 2014, ' rare Pepes' have been posted on the 'meme market' as if they were trading cards. Different types of Pepe memes include 'Sad Frog', 'Smug Frog', 'Angry Pepe', 'Feels Frog', and 'You will never.' Frog. By 2015, he had become one of the most popular memes used on 4chan and Tumblr. The character became an Internet meme when his popularity steadily grew across websites such as Myspace, Gaia Online, and 4chan in 2008. Designed as a green anthropomorphic frog with a humanoid body, Pepe originated in Furie's 2005 comic Boy's Club. Pepe the Frog ( / ˈ p ɛ p eɪ/ PEP-ay) is a cartoon character and Internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie.

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