You know, the story of this frog meme is much more interesting than it seems at first glance. 🐸 It all started in 2005 when artist Matt Furie drew this Pepe the frog in his comic Boy's Club. In one of the issues, the character says "Feels good, man" in a very funny situation — and thus, the internet icon was born.

Then chaos broke out on 4chan — users began creating their own versions of the meme, changing the frog's expression, adding different captions. Sad Pepe, Smug Pepe, Feels Bad Man — there were so many variations that Pepe became a universal language of emotions online. Sadness, loneliness, happiness, anger — everything could be expressed through this frog.

And then something strange happened. In 2015-2016, the meme started being appropriated by political groups, used for their own purposes. Even the Anti-Defamation League listed some versions as hate symbols, although the creator himself was against it. Matt Furie actively denied this.

The most interesting part is that in the crypto community, Pepe experienced a rebirth. 'Rare Pepe' — rare versions that people began collecting as NFTs and tokens. Some projects based on Counterparty are entirely built around this meme. That’s the journey of a simple comic frog — from an internet joke to a crypto-cultural phenomenon. 😄