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A follower of the racist so-called alt-right shouted But what about the memes? as he was kicked out of a far-right rally.

Footage has emerged of a man, armed with hand-drawn renderings of Pepe the Frog, being unceremoniously kicked out of a nationalist rally in Texas.

He was holding signs saying RED SCUM YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED when participants in the rally started telling him that he needs to leave.

But what about the memes? he pleads with the group, pointing to the memes he had painstakingly painted onto sheets of card.

A woman in military camo then tells him to get the fuck out, and he dejectedly replies: But these are good memes.

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And when another man shouts at him Dude, this is not Comic Con!, he replies, clearly disheartened: I know. I just came to make friends.

Things quickly escalated, with one rally participant grabbing the alt-right guy from behind and putting him in a stronghold.

The man eventually conceded defeat, and ended up having to find sanctuary with the police.

The right-wing rally was in Houston, and saw hundreds of individuals most of whom were armed descend on a park in the city.

They were reportedly protesting what they claimed were efforts to remove a statue of historic Texas figure Sam Houston because he owned slaves.

In cities across America, statues of Confederate heroes are being removed due to historic racist undertones.

Sam Houston, who was the Republic of Texas first president, owned slaves but he also refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.

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Apple banned an app featuring Pepe the Frog, a meme loved by the alt-right, the developer said in a Reddit post found by Motherboard.

The developer of the app, Pepe Scream, received an email from an Apple app review employee saying the your app contains images and references of Pepe the Frog, which are considered objectionable content."

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Pepe Scream was rejected by Apple for violating section 1.1 of Apple's App Store Review Guidelines, which states that apps "should not include content that is offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust, or in exceptionally poor taste."

My friend and I came up with the idea of combining sh--posting with autistic screeching, so we made this just for fun, the developer said on Reddit. But when we tried to release to the App Store, we got hit with 'Your app contains images and references of Pepe the Frog, which are considered objectionable content.'This is pretty stupid, because we spent a ton of hours trying to get this to work on iOS and spent $99 on the developer license, and now we cant even post it to the App Store.

The developer pointed out that the app is live in Googles Play Store, which also houses other Pepe the Frog apps, including Pepe Snap, Rare Pepe Clicker, Flappy Pepeand Pepe Button.

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Pepe Scream isnt the first Pepe app Apple has rejected. Last October, the App Store denied Build the Wall: The Game, also over objectionable content. The game lets users build President Donald Trumps wall and features Pepe the Frog.

Apple could have rejected those apps because Pepe the Frog is seen as a hate sign. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit that fights anti-Semitism, listed the character as a general hate symbol.

"The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted, said ADL in a post. The number of alt right Pepe memes has grown, a tendency exacerbated by the controversial and contentious 2016 presidential election. Though Pepe memes have many defenders, the use of racist and bigoted versions of Pepe memes seems to be increasing, not decreasing.

Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook poked fun at Trumps early morning tweeting habit. During his commencement speech at MITFriday, Cook said hell never figure out how the schools students have obviously taken over the president's Twitter account."

"I can tell college students are behind it, because most of the tweets happen at 3 a.m.," Cook said as the audience laughed.

Apple has been at odds with Trump recently. The company criticized the administration over the Trumps travel ban. Cook also said Trump made the wrong decision regarding the Paris climate agreement.

I think its not in the best interest of the United States what he decided, Cook told Bloomberg. My view is that first and foremost things are about, can you help your country and if you can help your country and you do that by interacting, then you do it. The country eclipses politics.

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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.

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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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