Pepe the frog


Pepe the Frog is an anthropomorphic frog character from the comic series Boy’s Club by Matt Furie. On 4chan, various illustrations of the frog creature have been used as reaction faces, including Feels Good Man, Sad Frog, Angry Pepe, Smug Frog and so on. 
Feels Good Man
Sad Frog(actually is an altered version of Pepe's original image with the mouth flipped )

 Angry Pepe
Smug Frog

After Pepe became a popular meme, some versions added elements related to Trump or Nazi thus made Pepe a symbol of white supremacy. 

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