Russian artist Olga Vishnevsky, better known as Pepelangelo\non social media, creates paintings using one of the most popular internet\nmemes, as her subject.\n\n\n\n
Pepe The Frog first appeared in Matt Furie\u2019s comics called Boy\u2019s Club in 2005 as the green anthropomorphic frog with a humanoid body. Platforms likes Myspace, 4chan and Gaia Online used it as a meme and had become one of the most famous memes used on 4chan and Tumblr by 2015. The character\u2019s image had also been appropriated as one of the symbols of the controversial alt-right movement in 2016.\n\n\n\n For Vishnevsky, she saw the green frog in a different way. To her, it is \u201cnot a symbol of hate, but a symbol of peace, love and solidarity.\u201d As a matter of fact, she considered it as one of her favorite memes.\n\n\n\n \u201cI spent a lot of time on the Russian 4chan and Pepe the Sad Frog was one of my favorite memes. I started collecting rare Pepes and I had no idea about Matt Furie, Donald Trump, alt-right and so on. I just loved to save pictures with Pepe the Frog who was sad in different situations,\u201d Vishnevsky told Bored Panda. She portrayed the popular meme in a positive way just like what the creator of Pepe intended. \n\n\n\n