Pepe the Frog 'killed off to avoid being a hate symbol'
Creator of Pepe the Frog, Matt Furie, has symbolically killed off the 'peaceful frog-dude' who had been appropriated as a racist hate symbol by the US Anti-Defamation League during the 2016 election. Over the weekend, the character's creator depicted the frog in a coffin in a bid to stop his image being hijacked by far-right groups.