Matt Furie drew the alt-right’s favorite cartoon frog. Now he is leading one of the most successful legal campaigns against the racist right.
More than a decade has passed since Furie first drew a stoned-looking frog named “Pepe” and uploaded it to Myspace. The frog rose from MySpace in-joke to popular meme, before being taken up as an unofficial mascot of internet neo-Nazis during the 2016 presidential primaries. Since then, Furie has been leading a campaign to reclaim his creation, filing copyright infringement complaints against white nationalist Richard Spencer, conspiracy news site InfoWars,
This week he won another battle, pressuring neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer into deleting most of their Pepes, as Motherboard reported.
When you're getting owned at every level of the political sphere, getting an obscure nazi website to stop posting pictures of a cartoon frog feels like a win.
Josiah Foster
>supply and demand >supply decreases, demand stays the same >price of rare pepes goes up >mfw
WTF, stop using the word “alt-right”, a term popularized by Hillary 400million Clinton.
Thomas King
Kek stupid fucking nigger leftists. What are they going to do, shut down the internet? Please, we have over 9,000 pepes in cold storage awaiting to be deployed at a moment’s notice.
How does Matt not understand we love Pepe cause we feel, and sometimes thing feels good man.
Luke Powell
>he's winning >he's filling complaints against e celebs crypto jews
We are done.
Landon Murphy
>This week he won another battle, pressuring neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer into deleting most of their Pepes, as Motherboard reported. Lol, what does that even mean? Andrew Anglin sent them a picture of himself smashing a hard drive labeled 'rare Pepes'?
This is the best example of yellow journalism. There are countless permutations of Pepe posted by all sorts of people. The fact neo-Nazis memed it is incidental. They’ve picked a target and polarized it, and I think they know it’s dishonest. They’re trying to take away culture from their enemies.
Also the Daily Beast article relied on an anonymous twitter user who claimed he was the leader of the alt-right (he later said the whole thing was a hoax)
Connor Turner
Pepe belongs to the normies now thanks to faceberg and twitch. Apu is the real alt-right mascot.
Jayden Barnes
Almost forgot—
The only reason Matt is relevant here is because he’s trying to cash in on the meme since it took on a life of its own.
He wants money. Go figure.
Ethan White
all of the "stupid frogposter" posters are bots and pajeets attempting you to shame you away from posting pepe
Zachary Peterson
It's his intellectual property. You guys hate gooks for stealing IP from America but think it's okay to do it to other Americans? He's only going after people who use Pepe on shirts, mugs, etc etc to sell. That's lost money out of his pocket. He has every right to take them to court about it.
Nice digits but there is a difference in IP between patents and copyright.
Most don't give a shit about a cartoon frog being copied vs. some home grown invention
Blake Rodriguez
>This week he won another battle, pressuring neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer into deleting most of their Pepes, as Motherboard reported. Ahahahaha what fucking reality are we living in
Jordan Green
IP law is the most heebish kikery i've seen in this world. copyright is a close second. patent laws are numbah three.
Ian Butler
>Implying it matters at the Daily Stormer >Implying that countless other sites do not have even rarer Pepes than DS using common pleb Pepes.
Mason Cruz
You realize law is a 99% Jewish majority occupation right? ADL said Pepe was a nazi symbol so no judge is going to defend it. Their loyalty lies with Israel above all.
