Behind the Meme on Pepe's origins

AUG 25 2016

A meme-history channel recounts the character's route from Matt Furie's comic to the imageboards and the variant Pepes that followed. It was posted in August 2016, weeks before the Anti-Defamation League added the character to its hate-symbol database, and already refers to the fight over the meme in that year's US election.