know your meme origin source claims

Throughout 2008, Pepe was mostly associated with the “Feels Good Man” reaction image. In 2009, an edited version featuring a distraught-looking Pepe with the caption “Feels bad man” began circulating as a reaction image on 4chan and the Body Building Forums. On January 25th, 2011, an interview with Furie was published on Know Your Meme, in which he discussed the origins of Pepe the Frog. On June 13th, 2014, the PepeTheFrogBlog Tumblr[11] blog was launched. On July 23rd, the Pepe the Frog Instagram[14] feed was created. On October 25th, the /r/pepethefrog[13] subreddit was launched for content featuring the frog character. On December 7th, a Facebook[10] page for “Pepe the Frog” was created. On December 18th, the PepeTheFrogNet Tumblr[12] blog was launched.-knowyourmeme source claims

Meanwhile, The Daily Dot^[29] published an article titled “Pepe the Frog is not a Nazi, no matter what the alt-right says,” stating that “Pepe lacks political affiliation.”-knowyourmeme source