noun Internet Slang

pepe

· noun · internet

Matt Furie's cartoon frog — the most-remixed reaction face on the internet, with a whole emotional vocabulary built around him.

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Definitions

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Matt Furie's green anthropomorphic frog character, used as a reaction image to telegraph an emotion — smug, sad, angry, comfy, you name it. The base template spawned thousands of variants (Sad Pepe, Smug Pepe, Apu, Pepega, Monka) that function as a full emote dialect on Twitch and Discord.

“He posted a crying pepe under the patch notes and I felt that in my soul.”
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A single emote in the broader Pepe family, especially on Twitch chat. Used as shorthand for the feeling the specific frog conveys.

“Chat was just spamming pepe for the whole boss fight.”
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In a political sense, the frog co-opted by the alt-right around 2015–2016 and briefly classified as a hate symbol by the ADL — a label Furie spent years fighting to scrub off his own creation.

“The pepe-as-hate-symbol era basically poisoned the well for years before normies forgot about it.”
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pepe In A Sentence

He posted a crying pepe under the patch notes and I felt that in my soul.
Chat was just spamming pepe for the whole boss fight.
The pepe-as-hate-symbol era basically poisoned the well for years before normies forgot about it.

Origin & Usage

Created by cartoonist Matt Furie in his 2005 comic Boy's Club. The 'feels good man' panel got ripped onto MySpace and 4chan, and by the early 2010s Pepe was the default reaction face of the internet.

Variants Pepe the Frogfeels frog
Tags #meme#4chan#twitch#reaction#emote

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