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Pepe the Frog, whose likeness becamea troll meme, has croakedat the age of12.

His spirit may live on in bigoted corners of the internet, but creator Matt Furie confirmed the frogs death Saturday with an illustration of his funeral.

It is not clear how Pepe passed.

Furie shared the news on his Tumblr along with a link to an Comic Book Resources article eulogizing Pepe.

While its unlikely Pepes official death will stop extremists from co-opting his image, this was, perhaps, the most effective way for Furie to reclaim his character; Pepes soul has returned to his creator. Rest in Peace, CBR author Shaun Manning said.

Pepe the Frogs life started innocently as a cartoon in Furies Boys Club comic, but somewhere along the way, he ended up falling into a bad crowd.

On social media, Pepestarted to become associated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the alt-right, particularly during the 2016 election.

Eric Reynolds, an associate publisher at Fantagraphics, which published the funeral illustration in an anthology, said that Furie had become troubled by the turn the cartoon had taken.

I think the strip was less about saying Pepe the Frog is dead because Pepe is a fictional cartoon character and more about him just sort of processing everything thats going on Reynolds told the New York Times.

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