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As Twitchy reported earlier, Rep. Adam Kinzinger suggested that Twitter owner Elon Musk was anti-Semitic after he asked whos pulling Alexander Vindmans strings after a whole bunch of ostensibly unrelated Twitter accounts just so happened to tweet the exact same message as Vindman: Kinda weird that @elonmusk gets to decide how like a half-billion people communicate. Way too much power for one erratic individual to wield, dont you think? read the tweets. When Musk suggested that bots were amplifying Vindmans message, Kinzinger took it as anti-Semitism.

Weve no doubt Kinzinger has developed a long reach in his time on the January 6 select committee, but he had even more proof: Musk had once retweeted a Pepe the Frog meme.

Pepe the Frog does indeed appear on the Anti-Defamation Leagues list of hate symbols:

Pepe the Frog is a cartoon character that has become a popular Internet meme (often referred to as the sad frog meme by people unfamiliar with the name of the character). The character first appeared in 2005 in the on-line cartoon Boys Club. In that appearance, the character also first used its catchphrase, feels good, man.

The Pepe the Frog character did not originally have racist or anti-Semitic connotations. Internet users appropriated the character and turned him into a meme, placing the frog in a variety of circumstances and saying many different things. Many variations of the meme became rather esoteric, resulting in the phenomenon of so-called rare Pepes.

The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted.

However, because so many Pepe the Frog memes are not bigoted in nature, it is important to examine use of the meme only in context. The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist.

Were horrified that Musk would retweet such a hate symbol, but in the spirit of light being the best disinfectant, here are some other hateful people.

Pepes not in it, but we like this one:

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Wow, Adam Kinzinger must really like making a fool of himself. Or at least thats what it looks like with the last few days (weeks, months) of him tweeting really stupid stuff that ultimately gets him dragged for our amusement.

We should probably send this guy a thank you card and some cookies for all of the Twitchy fodder.

Ok, so as our readers know, Adam tried really hard to make Elon Musk out to be anti-Semitic for sharing a meme of Pepe the Frog. He really thought this was a dunk:

Google Pepe the Frog. Youll see that this is an alt right meme since 2016, with links to anti semetism and authoritarianism.

Cool Elon. https://t.co/TP2F4nEvbI

Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) November 28, 2022

Except thats not true, Adam.

Even the ADL says so.

Womp-womp.

This is what Twitter put on Adams tweet:

*snort*

What a maroon.

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You should definitely put this tweet on your MSNBC job application.

Meara (@MillennialOther) November 28, 2022

Definitely.

They live for this sort of embarrassment at ones own expense.

And OMG you guys, the number of Pepe memes on his tweet HA HA HA HA.

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Grumpy (@SweatimusPrime) November 29, 2022

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PCEM Smittie GE.D (@smittie61984) November 29, 2022

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The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) November 28, 2022

BAHAHAHA.

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Mrs. Brassenstein (@MBrassenstein) November 28, 2022

Seriously. He could have saved himself a BUNCH of embarrassment if he had just bothered to Google this even a little. But we all know Adam was so determined to slam Elon Musk that he didnt care. That or hes just really that dense.

Hrm, he does tend to pander to the very people who have gerrymandered him out of a job so maybe we should just go with dense.

That works.

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Dano Hana 8 (@DanooHana) November 29, 2022

Good times.

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Pepe the Frog has been with us since 2005 and has become quite popular as a meme and reactions in chat rooms. We have collected 80 of the best gifs of this meme. Sad, crying or cheerful Pepe, anger, dancing frog and much more. Download for free and use as you please.

Classic crying frog

Pensive smile

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Pepe winks and offers a drink

Its too sad

Pepe cries with closed eyes and raises his hands up

Rage

When someone wrote that you werent a sweet bun

Pepes Endless Middle Finger Show

Pepe the Frog is hypnotized and spit rainbow-colored. Transparent background

Sad frog on a rainbow background

When you sit under a blanket in front of the computer during a snowfall outside the window

Sweats trying to make a decision

Stingy smile

Sad Pepe the Frog Begins to Cry

Sad Pepe dancing on a black background

Joy gives way to sadness

Pepe Crying Liquid Animation

Rainbow Pepe

Playful mood

Smooth dance animation, many frames per second. Transparent background

Sad dance of love

Pepe in a black robber mask shoots with two pistols

Three-dimensional face of a frog on a transparent background

Spinning frog coin

Suicidal Pepe

Joy in front of TV

Pepe fires a Kalashnikov assault rifle

Frog face on black background

Pepe is sadly holding a cigarette

Multiple rage and surprise

Funny dance on transparent background

Funny embarrassment

Pepe hits you

Dance with a dazzling smile on a blue background

Pepe happy with a mug of tea

Sad Pepe the Frog Wears the Mask of Happiness

Nods

Rotates palms left and right

Head spins clockwise

Pepe the Frog Performs the Party Parrot Dance

Pepe is composed of numbers and letters, like in the Matrix

Smiling frog in the Jacuzzi

Dance in sunglasses

Appears from different directions

Pepe the Frog Prays

Dubbing in rainbow suit

The frog sits in a black chair under a red blanket and moves its legs

Shows fists

The butterfly flies to sad Pepe and makes him more fun

Sad Pepe in a brilliant green performance

Pepe is looking for the ghost that can be seen outside the window

Hurrah!

Pepe in a formal suit. He saw something incredible

Pepe listens to music

Pensive smile on the background of a circular rainbow

We run

Red eyes from social networks

Dance in simple clothes

Martial arts master

Applause

When you saw something magnificent

Dancing Plant with Pepes Face

Pepe with a glass of wine

Doubts, but claps his hands

Dubbing in formal suit

Dubbing jersey 10

Pixel Pepe Crying

Im leaving

Im going to cry

Dubbing at a fast pace

Joy with open eyes

The ghost of the frog Pepe

Party Parrot style dance

Sweaty frog points to the hole

Pepe the child

Pepe washes his hands and wears a medical mask

Pepe the frogs head becomes cheerful, but quickly becomes sad

Antichrist go away

Pepe shoots you with a pistol

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The wider world doesn't care about OPEC or Deutsche Bank right now they want to know why a global internet meme called Pepe the Frog has been put on a list of hate symbols.

Pepe the Frog is, as the name suggests, an online cartoon frog character that has become hugely popular around the world since its creation by cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005. But it has now fallen fowl of an anti-discrimination watchdog and added to a database of "hate symbols."

The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said on Wednesday that Pepe the Frog was being "used by haters on social media to suggest racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted notions, as a hate symbol" and, as a result, it had taken the decision to add the image to its online database of hate symbols.

An image of Pepe the Frog

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This means that Pepe the Frog has now joined an ignominious rank of symbols including the well-known Swatiska and blood drop cross used by the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan respectively, that the ADL has on its "Hate on Display" database.

The story has captured the attention of the world and was one of the top five trending stories on search engine Google on Thursday morning.

The ADL noted that cartoonist Furie created the frog cartoon and gave him the catchphrase "feels good, man" but that the image and phrase had been appropriated by social media users, "turning him into a meme, placing the frog in a variety of circumstances and saying many different things."

While the ADL noted that the majority of uses of Pepe the Frog "have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted," it had also taken on a more sinister side among some social media communities.

Furie has already defended his cartoon, telling the Atlantic publication in September that his feelings were "pretty neutral"

"I think it's just a reflection of the world at large .. I just think that people reinvent him in all these different ways, it's kind of a blank slate. It's just out of my control, what people are doing with it, and my thoughts on it, are more of amusement," he said.

The ADL added that the use of racist and bigoted versions of Pepe memes seemed to be increasing, but added that it was important to examine use of the meme only in context.

"The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist. However, if the meme itself is racist or anti-Semitic in nature, or if it appears in a context containing bigoted or offensive language or symbols, then it may have been used for hateful purposes," it said.

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Feels Good Man is a 2020 American documentary film about the Internet meme Pepe the Frog. Marking the directorial debut of Arthur Jones, the film stars artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe. The film follows Furie as he struggles to reclaim control of Pepe from members of the alt-right who have co-opted the image for their own purposes. The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. It was also nominated in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance.[1]

Pepe the Frog, a character created by Matt Furie and first featured in a comic on MySpace called Boy's Club, is one of four twentysomething postcollegiate slacker friends who live together.[2][3] In one installment, Pepe is caught by one of his housemates with his pants around his ankles, urinating.[2] Asked why, he replies, "Feels good man".[2] The image becomes a viral Internet meme and is co-opted by the alt-right.[2][4]

Too late, Furie attempts to take Pepe back from the alt-right who have turned him from a cartoon character into a symbol for hate.[2] The film deals with the question of whether Pepe can be redeemed.[5][6][7] The coda of the film alludes to Pepe's appropriation by pro-democracy demonstrators during the 20192020 Hong Kong protests.[8]

Feels Good Man is the directorial debut of Arthur Jones.[4][8] Jones described the film as:[4]

The movie is really about him negotiating that uncomfortable reality for himself, [...] Matts personal journey really makes the movie really unique that I hope a lot of people find satisfying for a lot of reasons.

Jones, who was also film editor, finished the edit two days prior to the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.[4] He described the editing process as a "slow-rolling panic attack", but said he was looking forward to showing the film at the festival.[4]

As of early February 2020 the film was seeking distribution.[9] It also appeared as part of PBS's Independent Lens.[10] In October 2020, it was broadcast by the BBC as part of its Storyville series.[11]

The film has earned critical acclaim.[6][7][3]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95%, based on 81 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's consensus reads, "A cautionary tale on internet culture, Feels Good Man is a compelling look at an artist's journey to salvage his creation."[12] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[13]

Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com wrote: "Jones' movie is a beacon of internet literacy about a whole new languagethat memes are flexible, omnipotent, and pieces of a phenomenon more powerful than their creators".[5]

Vox Media's Polygon called it "the most important political film of 2020".[9]

Feels Good Man won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the Sundance Film Festival.[14][15] It was also nominated in the festival's U.S. Documentary Competition.[16][17]

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