But for the artist who created the famous Pepe the Frog meme, it's more complicated than that. Matt Furie created Pepe in 2005 and first posted him to MySpace, according to Vice's Sean Collins.

Since Pepe, the sad cartoon frog, broke through to the mainstream in the worst way possible last year — described as a symbol of white supremacy by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — his creator ...

Matt Furie created the cartoon character Pepe the Frog in 2005 as a kind of peaceful stoner animal for his comic "Boys Club." By 2008, the frog had become a meme at 4chan. In the 2016 election ...

The comic book artist who created Pepe the Frog in 2005 says the Anti-Defamation League jumped the gun when they added the cartoon character to its online database of hate symbols. The odd ...