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The internets most racist frog has croaked.

Innocuous cartoon turned co-opted hate symbol Pepe the Frog is dead, according to his long-suffering creator an attempt to lay to rest months of the grinning amphibian adorning alt-right and anti-Semitic memes.

Creator Matt Furie announced the untimely demise in a strip for Free Comic Book Day, drawing the sly, simpering frog in an open casket while characters from Furies book Boys Club pour whiskey on his expired face.

Furie previously lamented the hijacking of his chill frog-dude in an October piece for Time magazine, explaining the character hed debuted in 2006 had begun as an inside-joke and a symbol for feeling sad or feeling good and many things in between.

Pepe the Frog creator mourns that cartoon is hate symbol

But far-right internet users in recent months commandeered the anthropomorphic frog, swathing him in Ku Klux Klan robes and Nazi uniforms in memes posted to sites like 4chan and Reddit.

Its completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate, Furie wrote. Its a nightmare, and the only thing I can do is see this as an opportunity to speak out against hate.

The Anti-Defamation League in September designated Pepe a hate symbol, with CEO Jonathan Greenblatt blasting anti-Semites for abusing the image of a cartoon character, one that might at first seem appealing, to harass and spread hatred on social media.

The Trump Train also ushered Pepe on board, with alt-right types using the frog in memes supporting President Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton.

Wendys Twitter account posts Pepe the Frog meme

Trump, in fact, shared another users Pepe meme in October manually retweeting an image of the frog wearing his classic golden helmet and standing behind a presidential podium.

Donald Trump Jr. and Roger Stone in light of Clinton placing half of Trump supporters into a basket of deplorables shared an Expendables-parody meme in September featuring Pepe, themselves and other Trump associates flanking the candidate.

Ive never even heard of Pepe the Frog, the Trump son later told Good Morning America. I bet 90% of your viewers havent heard of Pepe the Frog. I thought it was a frog in a wig. I thought it was funny. I had no idea that theres any connotation there.

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Apple bounces Pepe the Frog out of the App Store, back to alt-right Reddit Mashable Pepe the Frog, the once-innocent meme that was co-opted by racists of the alt-right, is banned from the App Store because it's "considered objectionable content" under Apple's developer guidelines, according to an email posted by a developer on Reddit. 'Alt-right' Pepe the Frog game banned from Apple App storeRT Apple deems Pepe 'objectionable' and bans the frog from its App StoreEngadget Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store - MotherboardMotherboard International Business Times -Game Rant -One Angry Gamer (blog) -Apple Newsroom all 741 news articles »

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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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Apple reportedly bans Pepe the Frog game from App Store - CNET

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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