Pepe the Frog “Creator” Matt Furie Threatens Legal Action Against Alt-Right and Alt-Lite Personalities

Lee Rogers
Daily Stormer
September 20, 2017

Matt Furie causes my gaydar to go off the charts.

Matt Furie, the man who claims to have invented Pepe the Frog, is a man in denial. Pepe the Frog is a Neo-Nazi and a White supremacist who wants to put Jews in fake shower room gas chambers. That is the official interpretation of how the public currently views Pepe the Frog.

His refusal to accept this reality has led him to seek legal action against various Alt-Right and Alt-Lite personalities. It is one of the most ridiculous and absurd things you can imagine.

Ars Technica:

Matt Furie created the cartoon character Pepe the Frog in 2005 as a kind of peaceful stoner animal for his comic “Boys Club.” By 2008, the frog had become a meme at 4chan. In the 2016 election cycle, though, Pepe became something completely different—an ever-meme of the alt-right. The Anti-Defamation League characterizes Pepe as a hate symbol and has catalogued some of the most viciously racist and anti-semitic examples.

Now Furie wants his comic frog back. After years of letting it slide, Furie has lawyered up and sent demand letters to several alt-right personalities, including white supremacist Richard Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and the subreddit “The_Donald.”

Last month, Furie took legal action against a man in Texas who created an Islamophobic version of Pepe for a children’s book. That matter reached a settlement. Now, Furie’s lawyers have spoken to Vice about his determination to reclaim ownership of the image and the demand letters they have sent out.

“[Furie] was very serious when he said that we wanted to make clear that Pepe was not the property of the alt-right and couldn’t be used by the alt-right,” Furie lawyer Louis Tompros told Vice. “We’ve asked them to take [the images] down. That hasn’t happened yet, but they’re very much on notice. We plan to take action if they don’t.”

The letters demand that the alt-right commentators remove images and videos including Pepe, including one recently created by Cernovich in which he added Pepe into a video of Hillary Clinton reading a passage from her new book.

Furie probably should have thought more about his decision to lawyer up like this. Although, it’s possible that he was put up to this by the Jewish terror operation known as the Anti-Defamation League. He has been working very closely with them after they declared Pepe the Frog to be a symbol of ultimate hate.

Pepe the Frog has become cool again because Furie can’t accept the fact that Pepe is a Nazi.

What Furie and the ADL don’t seem to get is that Pepe the Frog memes were starting to get a bit stale. By claiming that the people who make or use these memes are violating copyright law, they are only helping to make these memes cool again.

This means that you are only going to see more images of Pepe the Frog dressed up as a Nazi or a Klansman. People are not going to take kindly to some control freak who is trying to dictate how people interpret art. They’ll react by making and uploading even more Pepe the Frog memes.

Can you imagine if John Carpenter took legal action against all the people making and posting Jew “They Live” memes? Carpenter went on record and claimed that the aliens who took on human form in the film weren’t meant to be representative of Jews. Many people who have watched the movie interpreted the film differently. They believed that the aliens provided an accurate representation of real life Jewish infiltration and subversion within our societies. Simply put, an artist can’t dictate how people interpret or use their art. At least Carpenter seems to understand this where as Furie does not.

But honestly, what sort of faggot would pursue legal action over the use of a cartoon frog? This is a very insane thing. Fair use protects the creation of parody content so Furie’s legal claims are quite dubious.

[Editor’s Note: Pepe the frog was not created by Matt Furry, he is an ancient Egyptian god. The Furry comic itself was ripped off of a 4chan /pol/ meme originally drawn by anon. Matt Furry only drew a version of Pepe that was not very good anyway. -AA]