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Pepe the Frog is reportedly banned from the Apple App Store.

It looks like Pepe the Frog is not welcome on the Apple App Store.

The meme has become a symbol for the so-called alt-right, a white nationalist movement, and Appleconsiders images of the frog examples of "objectionable content," according to a report Friday by Motherboard.

Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

A Redddit user named MrSnrhms on Thursday posted a screenshot of a response from a member of Apple's App Review Board, saying that the app violated Apple's guidelines. The app is a game called Pepe Scream, which looks similar to the game Flappy Bird.

Pepe was co-opted to become a symbol of white nationalism sometime in 2015. Last fall, the meme was designated a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League. In March, Pepe's creator Matt Furie "killed" off the character in a comic strip.

As of this writing, Pepe Scream is available on Google's Play Store. The search giant didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about the app.

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So about sometime last school year, I drew a pepe in the class

and this kid from another period liked to draw over it and as each day passed, he kept drawing on it and i kept trying to draw it back to how it was, but then it sort of progressed to where we would sent messages to each other

I didnt document the first ones

He asked for an army AND OH BOY DID I BRING HIM ONE

The teacher had let me print a bunch of pepes and we built ourarmy

Then I put them literally everywhere in the classroom (including the books bc the teacher let us know what page they were going to work on)

The main focus was the table where the guy sat in. We spent all period attaching pepes on doors, windows, walls, stools, tables books, everything

This kid had the class for first period while i had it for sixth so the teacher told me he was going to tell me the reaction at the end of the day. HOWEVER, I got the reaction sooner than I thought because as i was passing to second period I saw this

THIS KID HAD THROWN PRACTICALLY ALL MY PEPES TO THE FLOOR FROM THE THIRD FLOOR

We later on met and honestly, this whole thing will be the highlight of my life and I hope to be remembered for this.

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Pepe The Frog first appeared on the internet in the mid-00s as a lighthearted stoner in Matt Furies online comic Boys Club. Now, cursory Google images of the character find the frog flaunting swastikas, chainsaws, and Donald Trump propaganda. How does this happen? How does a harmless meme become an ideological vessel by an entire subculture that its creator felt the need to kill off for the greater good of humanity? Not even Furie can explain it.

A staggeringly comprehensive and complicated video from Shots Fired breaks it all down, tracking the exact moments in time when Pepe evolved from goofy meme to weirdo mascot to worldwide sensation to harbinger of mass violence and symbol of right-wing hate. Basically, blame 4chan. And bodybuilding forums. Always blame bodybuilding forums.

At one time, Pepe served as a means of criticizing The Big Bang Theory; at another, the frog was the envy of art collectors willing to drop nearly $100,000 dollars for rare Pepes. If you were never quite sure how that all happened, well, this video will catch you up, before Donald Trump names Pepe the new ambassador to the United Nations.

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A college student in the UK has written a major paper on Pepe the Frog as part of her studies.

Yasmine Gaio, a student at Kings College London, took on the alt-right poster-boy poster-frog as her final year project.

Her 10,000-word paper, called How Pepe the Frog Took Over the Internet: An Insight into the Meme, was handed in early this month as part of her English Language and Communication bachelors degree.

Gaio told Heat Streethow her professor encouraged her to focus on the topic, and that Pepe represented the first time a meme became a genuine political force.

The project discusses the evolution of Pepe, who began as a little-known character created byMatt Furie for his Boys Club web comic in 2005.

He then became enthusiastically adopted by the so-called alt-right political movement, where he gained associations with white nationalism and anti-Semitism.

During the primaries of the last election, Donald Trump tweeted an image of himself as Pepe, seemingly without quite knowing what it meant.

Donald Trump Jr later posted an image on Instagram showing him alongside his father, Milo Yiannapoulos, Alex Jones and Pepe as members of The Deplorables:

This in turn led the Clinton campaign to publish a bizarre Pepe explainer, which gave them the low-down on the character and said the Trump campaigns embrace of the character was horrifying.

In the months since, Pepe continued to proliferate online, but was dramatically killed off by Furie last week in a farewell comic showing him in an open casket.

Gaio toldHeat Street that a small field of meme scholarship does already exist, and that she was inspired to take up her project by an academic discussion of Lolcats.

However, her paper could mark the first time an individual character has been the sole subject of an entire thesis.

Hopefully it gets a good grade.

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