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Feels Good Man 2020

Directed by Arthur Jones · 94 mins · 1,917 views

3.9 Letterboxd 3.92(36,372)
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Synopsis

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.

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Reviews (153)

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    davidehrlich 8 月 25, 2026

    Nobody owns anything on the internet — not really. Just because you create something doesn’t mean that it belongs to you. And while that sort of digital socialism might read like a sad reflection on the impropriety of the information age, the truth is that ideas have been open-source since the dawn of time. Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in 1976 as a way to distinguish the growth of thought from the evolution of genes, and defined it as nothing more than a unit of cultural information spread by imitation. Architecture is a meme. Fashion is a meme. A chair is a meme. The only difference these days is the near-instantaneous speed at which that happens. Dawkins himself has…

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    Kael 8 月 25, 2026

    They should add the clip of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face to the criterion collection.

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    Tyson 8 月 25, 2026

    need a full movie about the guy who is an expert on “meme magic”

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    Georgia Coley 8 月 25, 2026

    Unironically the best movie of the year so far…and one of the most aesthetically energetic and creative documentaries I’ve ever seen, period. It’s always so difficult to meaningfully document internet culture in a different medium, because a) it’s hard to visualize digital trends and cultures that are largely abstract/conceptual, and b) the forms of those trends are continually changing with every whim. This doc, though, manages to tackle a startling evolution of one meme overtime in a way that is incredibly easy to follow and visually encapsulating through and through. It feels like the filmmakers were genuinely interested in understanding the bizarre, ironic and sometimes sinister idiosyncrasies of the internet without writing it all off as silly and meaningless. This…

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    Jamelle Bouie 8 月 25, 2026

    Maybe it’s just that I watched this on Election Day, and I’m filled with the anxiety and apprehension of everyone who has lived these last four years as a waking nightmare, but I think this might be the best film about the Trump years that we’ve gotten so far. The film, obviously, is not about Trump himself. It is about Pepe the Frog, a creation of the artist and cartoonist Matt Furie that took on a life and meaning of its own in the early years of social media. That meaning turned sinister when, on 4Chan and other similar forums, Pepe was ironically paired with the most evil and transgressive ideas that exist in our society: racism, anti-Semitism, Nazism, etc.…

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    James (Schaffrillas) 8 月 25, 2026

    The most uncomfortable and uplifting viewing experience of 2020. An absolutely gut-wrenching account of the ongoing battle against hatred and the horror of seeing your creation spiral out of control and become unrecognizable. Gonna be thinking about this one for a long time.

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    Brett Schutt 8 月 25, 2026

    It’s 2020 and I got emotional during a documentary about Pepe the Frog.

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    Karsten 8 月 25, 2026

    I think after watching this and Crumb, I’ve decided documentaries about comic artists are just gonna be my thing.

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    oleff 8 月 25, 2026

    the story of matt furie is really interesting, this is actually a really good watch, and a kind of sad story. i don’t really know how to rate documentaries so im not gonna

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    Aleister Wood ⛧ 8 月 25, 2026

    Please, please, PLEASE give me more internet history documentaries. One of the best films I’ve seen all year. Brilliantly presented, culturally relevant and surprisingly really bittersweet. Easy to recommend to anyone who uses the internet. Even my mom knows who Pepe is.

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    ivy 8 月 25, 2026

    every time I see the video of richard spencer getting punched it feels like the first time (september 2020 edit: someone made a comment a while ago saying like, “oh so violence is ok if its people you don’t like?” and I deleted it bc i didn’t want to deal with that, but I would like to clarify: yes violence against nazis is fine)

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    jourdain searles 8 月 25, 2026

    this poor sad hot man!!!

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    Tanka__Jahari 8 月 22, 2026

    Ts gave me goosbumps. Feels good man.🐸 Also bro looks and talks exactly like Toby from the office its crazy

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    Eglė 8 月 22, 2026

    Belekaip geras ❤️🐸

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    Joe_Up 8 月 20, 2026

    An incredible documentary. Aesthetic, storytelling, and politicsl brilliance

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    bento_dias 8 月 19, 2026

    “a noção positiva de Pepe é a possibilidade de que podemos mudar novamente” história incrível, um dos documentários mais imersivos e diferentes que já vi

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    Logan 8 月 19, 2026

    i can’t imagine what it must be like to have a little fella you drew for years turn into a political weapon for the worst kind of people. and whatever you decide to do or don’t do only makes it worse. i felt gross watching this, but it just hurts knowing that we are still seeing the ramifications of these events. this frog has real world consequences. i feel immense pain for matt. he’s just a chill guy with a family and he likes to draw. what a fucked up time to exist :/

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    Finny:D 8 月 16, 2026

    Still insane this has so much relevancy even though it was made pre covid

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    Rocco 8 月 16, 2026

    Never been more confused by this world in my life.

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    luix012 8 月 16, 2026

    Nunca pensé que un documental de la rana esta fuera a ser tan profundo 👍🏻

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    AngelMonkey 8 月 15, 2026

    Film #10 off my Scavenger Hunt 137. Task 5/31: Watch a movie with “Green”, “Yellow”, or “Blue” in the title, OR featuring all three colors on the poster. Film #18 for DOCx52 2026. Task 2/52: On a subject that is not of particular interest to you I honestly feel really sad for Matt Furie and what happened to his creation. His work may not be my cup of team, but the poor guy just wanted to share his art. Somewhat interesting overall, but the doc didn’t really present the material in an especially engaging way or reveal anything particularly intriguing.

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    FunboiMarti 8 月 15, 2026

    #FreePepe

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    TheBigFuk420 8 月 15, 2026

    I wonder what’s in store for Harambe

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    austinEn 8 月 15, 2026

    Guy just wanted to draw frogs. People ruin everything

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    vidamat 8 月 14, 2026

    “the frog has round lips?” “i wouldn’t call it round, more tubular” Thanks for helpful clarification Alex Jones. Great watch with amazing use of animation and a well done investigation of the chilliest dude ever losing control over his art

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    Thomas 8 月 14, 2026

    Crazy that a documentary about a frog meme is the closest thing to a Rosemary’s Baby sequel. How do you deal with birthing evil into the world and dealing with the regret of not killing it while you still could? I wouldn’t be able to handle it. Beautiful animation, but God did it leave me anxious and sad.

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    Tite 8 月 14, 2026

    No se siente bien man

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    Kylo__Ben 8 月 14, 2026

    If I had watched this closer to when it came out in 2020, it would have hit so much harder. But flash forward six years and it is hard not to find Matt Furie maddeningly naive in the same vein as everyone else (including, to an extent, myself) who thought there was no chance Donald Trump could win the presidency again. To be clear, I do not blame Furie for Trump or the return of fascism to this country or…

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    duda 8 月 12, 2026

    babado

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    Jake Thornley 8 月 12, 2026

    No replies just cried at a documentary about Pepe the Frog

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    Torju_nonumero 8 月 12, 2026

    El internet es una locura.

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    OneEyedSquirrel 8 月 10, 2026

    good (haha)

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    MF A-Toto 8 月 10, 2026

    Pepe, si vieras cómo está el país ahora serías peor de lo que te hicieron ser w.

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    Riggz1 8 月 9, 2026

    I wonder if the roommate got the pepe tattoo covered up.

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    Reem 8 月 9, 2026

    he just wanted to draw frogs

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    Adrian 8 月 9, 2026

    Yeah, he gotta let this one go chief. InfoWars lost, though. Film MVP: Lisa Hanawalt

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    jjth3bat 8 月 9, 2026

    No estaba listo para el jumpscare de Elliot Rodger

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    Robert Alvillar 8 月 8, 2026

    Good documentary, man! I was surprised and delighted by the very high quality production of the interviews, editing, and the great original animation throughout. In this documentary we spend a lot of time talking with artist Matt Furie about his creative work and the old internet comic he made in which Pepe the Frog originated. As that character started getting picked up by different communities online, meanings were transposed onto him in unique and novel ways. I thought this was a…

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    sabbagh 8 月 8, 2026

    Why does this weirdly remind me of the social network? Amazing commentary on just how bad this type of incel culture is and the liberating feeling of being an anon, you really can do whatever you want with just a discord username or a 4chan account.

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    Willob33 8 月 8, 2026

    I feel so bad for Matt Furie. I know well enough once you put your work out there, especially online, however your creation is interpreted/used is ultimately out of your hands. Even so, watching one of your creations be warped and distorted into something it was never intended to be, to be remembered as the creator of a hate symbol for a rising fascist movement that would go on to define the current political climate in the US over the past decade is the kind of snowball effect I wouldn’t wish on any artist to ever have to go through with any of their work.

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    lukavann 8 月 8, 2026

    This is a documentary about truths being constructed for agendas and in turn it makes its own truth, a truth comfortable enough for it’s moderately progressive audience. An audience of good values, decent standards towards people, easily aware of conservative actions but also an audience that cannot fully comprehend the vastness of nuances of the alt-right movement. Despite a rather blase approach to the alt-right’s history and usage of Pepe, it is rather surface level and fails to acknowledge the…

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    ilikesugar 8 月 7, 2026

    W richard spenser

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    Will 8 月 7, 2026

    Free Pepe

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    bigfunnymane 8 月 7, 2026

    An important story that says a lot about our internet culture. It’s honestly a very beautiful film.

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    pioottado 8 月 7, 2026

    Una locura como un personaje de un comic puede tergiversarse de tal manera. Las redes sociales dejan gaga a la gente, o atraen a muchos gagas ya noc.

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    Juniper 8 月 6, 2026

    Taught me a lot of stuff I didnt know as someone who didn’t use the internet much at the time all this was happening

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    sheluvsunicorns 8 月 5, 2026

    have to rewatch but i remember liking this when i first watched it in 2024, interesting stuff i think i will always enjoy internet history— the internet being a terrifying get fascinating place. I think a popular sentiment about the internet is that once you turn your device off all of the problems caused by social media etc. magically slip away. I dont think we live in that world anymore, and this documentary is a great snapshot of that coming to be. its not a coincidence that trump was elected president during the alt right pipeline era of 2016. anyways, great documentary.

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    Jeremy_Hickman 8 月 4, 2026

    Feels Good Man… until it snowballs into something depraved. The documentary follows the creator of Pepe the Frog as he watches his character evolve and mutate across the internet. It’s remarkable how relaxed he initially seems although, as one interviewee points out, he starts off naive about the extent to which the character has been appropriated. That detachment changes once Pepe is designated a hate symbol, prompting Matt Furie to launch a determined effort to reclaim his creation. I loved the motion graphics and the film’s positive outlook in the face of something that ultimately feels impossible to fully control.

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    Alex 8 月 4, 2026

    Nice

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    simoncho06 8 月 3, 2026

    Ofc it was all because of 4chan

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    Emmy! 8 月 3, 2026

    It shows this is pre-Covid because it ends in a hopeful note about Matt Furie’s mark on the world as an artist trying to get back some control from his creation but no one in the documentary is ready about the fucking madness that will go down once Biden term ends. I wanted the 4channer guy so fucking bad and I want to buy Matt’s entire ouvre now. 4chan really is a disease.

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    fangirlstuf 8 月 2, 2026

    feels sadge man The fact that the internet has the power to bastardize something you made for fun. Idk I see it a lot now where art is made and transformed beyond the artist’s intentions and sometimes in the opposite of what the artist believes. Then you see the separate the art from artist shit but it never really matters when the art becomes a symbol of hate and the artist wants to spread love. Just all around confusing times on the internet

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    dreamium 8 月 2, 2026

    Fun!!! very fun documentary and it made me happy so now its here ☺️☺️☺️

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    matt 8 月 2, 2026

    An interesting little doc that flew by. Matt Furie comes off very likeable and I found myself rooting for him towards the end.

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    anna_p_ 8 月 1, 2026

    Only white people in this one. Genuinely repulsive to sit through a few segments then it’s kinda uplifting.

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    Joey Lippert 8 月 1, 2026

    Absolutely insane how Alex Jones kept getting sued for so many things. I’m glad he’s [metaphorically] dead now

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    ZAWKINO 7 月 31, 2026

    “Hey That’s Me”

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    Nick Obis 7 月 31, 2026

    I wanted to catch this film at True/False in March 2020, but it sold out, and then I just never got around to it until last night. Obvious but still strange to realize how much has changed in the six years since: COVID, of course, but also the entire Biden administration; the confounding and depressing reelection of Donald Trump; Bored Ape and the collapse of NFTs; and the decline of 4chan and shifting of social media. As a portrait of…

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    Victoria Li 7 月 30, 2026

    rewatched for ap lang very touching, feels good man 😌

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    Juan Pava 7 月 30, 2026

    JUSTICE FOR PEPE DAMMIT! #pepeforavengersdoomsday

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    Eli 7 月 28, 2026

    I don’t think I trust you as a person if you didn’t want to kill yourself while that guy was explaining Rare Pepe’s

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    Darrow555 7 月 28, 2026

    When did society start heading into a direction in which Pepe The Frog is unironically one of the most influential things to happens to internet culture and real life politics?!?!? Some other things – A guy has a book levitate towards him, just because. – Somebody spent thousands of dollars to Buy a Homer Pepe The Frog drawing and he sings a rare Pepe The Frog song. Wanna know how he is doing today. – A man unironically compares Donald…

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    Tobias747 7 月 27, 2026

    What the heck.

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    MaestroMarvel 7 月 27, 2026

    One of the best documentaries on internet culture/politics I’ve ever seen.

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    Lleyton Ha 7 月 27, 2026

    This might be the most 2020 movie I’ve ever seen in the best way possible and I won’t elaborate on that.

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    ꩜ nati ꩜ 7 月 27, 2026

    kinda funny how watching the depositions between the guy that created pepe and alex jones went exactly how one would picture it

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    Molly Walsh 7 月 25, 2026

    Honestly felt like seeing inside the machinery of the world in a way that was both fascinating and horrible. Just a great use of the medium.

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    Lemonade 7 月 25, 2026

    omg. best thing i’ve seen this entire miserable month (yet) super in love with the way this edited and like just sorted out and everything. the animated bits were really cool to just watch too. it must have been so gut wrenching to like just watch the character that you used to love just be tossed around and associated with all of these different messed hate groups really sad sht (had no idea trump used pepe in his campaign too…

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    Kevin Glaser 7 月 24, 2026

    Serves as a great real-world example of the concept of socially constructed truth and meaning. Watching Pepe’s evolution shows how a symbol can take on a life of its own once it enters public discourse. It was also fun watching my brother learn about all of this. He had no idea about Pepe’s connection to the alt-right, or really much about 4chan and that corner of the internet in general. Also, I’m surprised I learned the origin of “Kek” in…

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    Matches_Is_Me 7 月 24, 2026

    rip pepe

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    thejohnmalkovic 7 月 24, 2026

    One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. I was genuinely uncomfortable watching this because it offers such an intense look into the black hole that was 4chan and even the internet in general at the time.

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    sufyaan 7 月 23, 2026

    Homer Pepe the most valuable in all of time

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    wolfdog17 7 月 23, 2026

    Bruh5

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    lefty85 7 月 23, 2026

    An interesting doc about the rise of the alt right mixed with the naive and somewhat sad story of the creator of a meme. I can’t imagine what it feels like to have your creation taken from you like this for these purposes. The parts about nfts felt very unnecessary but overall an interesting story about internet culture and the futility of fighting the masses.

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    Luke Luft 7 月 22, 2026

    Best documentary I’ve ever watched, hands down. This hit me in all the right places, knocked me down to misery, and lifted me up in motivation again by the end. I have a newfound respect for Pepe the Frog, and a newfound hatred of the alt-right movement- not just for the racist bile they put out on a regular basis, but for ruining such a wholesome little guy. But, y’know, that’s why we fight. To challenge those beliefs, help the country, and Make Pepe feel good man Again!

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    Leïa :) 7 月 21, 2026

    i want to kill some of these interviewees with my bare hands

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    Kolby 7 月 21, 2026

    It doesn’t feel good man actually

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    Swaydehead 7 月 15, 2026

    White Supremacists ruin everything.

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    Chris 7 月 14, 2026

    4chan users thinking they singlehandedly put Trump into office because of creating and posting racist frog memes is the most pretentious thing I’ve ever heard

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    Roadchipc00kie 7 月 14, 2026

    fuck the nazis!!

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    ☻ 7 月 14, 2026

    Vrlo kaotično iskustvo gledanja, neki pokušaj promoviranja mira ili nešto nerazumljivo. Skupina ljudi koja je okupljena je najčudnija nakupina čega-već koji pokušavaju biti ozbiljni kad objašnjavaju stvari o kojima znaju koliko i ja o bilo čemu osim bivanja degenerikom. Lik odlično crta, bio bi dobar i ovako da nije tamo gdje je. Konstantno velika drama oko svega, ja se često pitam kako ti anglo-sasi ikad uspiju udahnuti plućima. Znaju li oni za svjež zrak? Mislim, i kod nas bude tako…

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    Bastián Faundes 7 月 14, 2026

    Pepe ya sufrió mucho, dejenlo vivir en paz

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    TrushToons 7 月 14, 2026

    An honestly tragic story how a well meaning artist work was twisted in an awful way. As most who grew up with the internet I knew of the meme of Pepe the frog, but I didn’t know how far down the internet rabbit hole this meme went. It has beautiful animated segments of Pepe and his friends. Well paced and a variety of perspectives from those with ties to Pepe and the internet at large. Definitely worth watching for appreciators of all form of art and what a force the internet can be for better or worse.

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    Rincewind23 7 月 13, 2026

    Really interesting documentary about how easily images and iconography can catch on and become things far different to what they were intended to be. Seems the far right has a habit of taking innocent imagery and characters and turning them into symbols of hatred.

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    AJ Soll 7 月 13, 2026

    It’s really interesting watching this film and looking back at 2020 retrospectively. Random journalist telling Matt Furie that he basically will never be able to get the “genie back in the bottle” implying that Pepe will always be a symbol of far right hatred. Now in 2026 Pepe is kind of just an apolitical reaction image at best and a memecoin at worst. Would be cool so see a follow up to this documentary

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    Michael Bowlin 7 月 13, 2026

    Far more disturbing than what I thought it would be

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    death_noise_ 7 月 13, 2026

    Honestly very interesting documentary, such an iconic character with an surprisingly unknown story.

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    Séraphin Degroote 7 月 13, 2026

    Matt Furie parle comme Toby de the office

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    Aiden 7 月 13, 2026

    Surprisingly an amazing documentary. Great messages about hate. Well paced and filled with cool animation

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    Nameaname 7 月 13, 2026

    For something as dominant and influential as internet culture, cinema has been incredibly delayed in analyzing it substantially. I really appreciate this film taking initiative.

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    Raymond Ogilvie 7 月 13, 2026

    I didn’t really like how in certain parts of the documentary they were trying to imply it was Matt Furie’s fault somehow that Pepe ended up becoming a hate symbol. It seemed to me that by the time he was being used in that way, the scope was too large to be stopped. Other than that, I liked learning about the origins of Pepe and how he has morphed over time. I hope that someday he can be a frog again instead of a hate symbol.

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    Andrea 7 月 12, 2026

    bellissimo documentario su pepe che non è assolutamente icona neo nazista.

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    dripdawg 7 月 12, 2026

    The invention of smug Pepe felt like the birth of the anti christ.

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    David Ezekiel Clist 7 月 12, 2026

    Not the most innovative documentary but a perfect story and brilliant characters. It’s incredible.

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    Diego Z. 7 月 12, 2026

    A good example of a stupid idea with incredible execution. A documentary about an artist’s persona/avatar being morphed into a symbol of hatred by one community only to be taken by another as a symbol of resistance sounds like something you’d only read in fiction yet somehow this all actually happened. Fvcking nuts man. I found this on YouTube and it’s so funny that they rated a documentary with Alex Jones, artwork of nazi symbols and decapitation as PG.

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    evie 7 月 12, 2026

    and the death of memes shall be a beautiful end

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    findingdorian 7 月 12, 2026

    Pepe you did nothing wrong

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    DARF WOOF 7 月 12, 2026

    Went a lot of places but nowhere you wouldn’t think of. I’m really happy for the dude, alight with the relentless showcase of him being a good peepaw

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    LancsTrashMan 7 月 12, 2026

    He will unite us? 🐸

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    Jo Thornely 7 月 12, 2026

    I recovered from the exquisitely depressing afterglow of this film by realising those dicks can’t even create their own fucking frog. The nice people in this look happy.

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    egott 7 月 12, 2026

    There’s no way 2016 was 10 years ago I just don’t buy it

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    Fucked up, man

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    Bernie 7 月 11, 2026

    His daughter is sooooo so so so cuteeee

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    Debo 7 月 11, 2026

    Da una parte abbiamo il tipo su 4chan contro i “normies” che difende l’utilizzo di Pepe come simbolo dei neet e di Trump e dall’altra abbiamo il creatore di Pepe che è un uomo normale con una famiglia e amici reali: a volte la vita è il vero meme.

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    promise ㅤꨄ︎ 7 月 10, 2026

    What an informative nightmare!

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    PlasmaGirl 7 月 10, 2026

    I don’t usually like documentaries, but this was free with ads on YouTube so I checked it out. it was honestly a really good watch, and a pretty good doc on how things made for good can be made bad if left unchecked. probably one of the better documentaries i’ve watched (granted, I still consider the 5 hour long “debunking transphobia” vid by jasperdasper to be my all time favorite)

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    gang pisley 7 月 10, 2026

    9/10.

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    Debemos destruir el internet, y el mundo en general

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    vitto_swag 7 月 9, 2026

    per favore torniamo a questa era di internet

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    Gliepnir 7 月 9, 2026

    holy fuck I feel like i cant breathe with this editing. theres almost no space to think and focus on one thing or simply contemplate even for 10 seconds. It’s feels like you’re not supposed to be critical because its all there in this lavish animation, on top of that random digressions and referential things that are there because its the internet and all that shit. you read different sentences every second. every 3 or 4 min the people being…

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    Jannaaaaaaa 7 月 9, 2026

    Insane. There were points I literally couldn’t take it seriously like not only bc the doco itself can be melodramatic but also the guys they’re talking about are LAMEEEEEE like fuck these perverts are SO FUCKING LAMEEEEEE. Like oh my god it’s so embarrassinggggg. I think if my mum watched this her brain would explode. Also unnecessarily beautiful score and animation I really enjoyed. It’s so funny incels latching onto this character and the creator is literally married with a…

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    Kippersnack 7 月 8, 2026

    Well made and I skipped through a lot of the constant complaining Most leftists I’ve talked to can’t even define what fascism is. This movie sure can’t. Based on what I’ve read from the horses own mouth, facism is creating racial unity to conquer class differences, so the race is the most important thing to each individual and the state exists to benefit the race. The vast majority of MAGAheads are not fascists Facism is bad and so is communism…

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    t_tarusha 7 月 8, 2026

    really interesting bit of internet lore that i wasnt familiar with

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    ruby 7 月 8, 2026

    truly amazing – one of my new favourite docos

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    radijs 7 月 8, 2026

    Iedereen kijken

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    Lanpion 7 月 8, 2026

    Eine spassige Doku. Nur schwer zu finden

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    Junie 7 月 7, 2026

    “The positive notion of Pepe is the possibility that you can change again.” ~ Matt Furie

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    movie_nam 7 月 6, 2026

    미디어라는 성전 앞에 개인은 이미 죽었다. 어쩌면 유머는, 더 진작 죽었을지도 모르겠다.

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    Adriel_is_awesome 7 月 6, 2026

    500 Movies in 1 year Movie 109/500 garffff. HAHAHA funy boner jokes with frogs.

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    Wright 7 月 6, 2026

    i would also be upset if someone made my drawing into trump

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    Jacob Husband 7 月 5, 2026

    My expectations for this documentary were pretty low, mainly because anytime internet culture is talked about in film it runs the risk of being very cringe, but this is extremely well made and comprehensive. The visual presentation is probably the best part, making it so much more engaging. It’s a great film and a great story.

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    lori ༚༅༚˳🎀 7 月 5, 2026

    i shed a tear over pepe the frog man

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    cabbageonline 7 月 5, 2026

    fabulous investigation of the life and death cycle of imagery, with a lot of new information that I didn’t have, even as someone on the internet in 2016-2020. my favorite parts of this were more about the horror that comes with creation—matt furie’s inability to wrap his head around how his cartoon was co-opted is ultimately very sad! and though I think a tighter version of this documentary wouldn’t forget about him as much, matt furie’s part in the center…

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    Lomeutrobo 7 月 5, 2026

    vidéo essai très sympathique 🙏

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    void07 7 月 5, 2026

    Crazy documentary. Everyone was really stupid in this though. He should have just given up. Like it sucks but him trying to take his drawing back just made it worse.

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    Tommy Stevens-Smith 7 月 5, 2026

    There is a better chance of the Buddhists reclaiming the swastika as a symbol of love and peace

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    ppmonsterXD 7 月 4, 2026

    One of the most interesting docs I’ve ever watched. From the first time Matt furie drew Pepe in this doc it filled me with a type of dread I’ve never really felt. The idea of your art being overturned into something almost incomprehensible. A true Frankensteins monster. I don’t know if I know of an artists whose art has over shadowed the artist that is alive right now more than Matt furie. This did an incredible job of showing a…

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    Jack 7 月 4, 2026

    Nothing more American

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    JasonicZ 7 月 4, 2026

    A great representation of the Internet. It shows Pepe being used as a symbol of hate which is something the creator never intended. On the Internet what you post is not just yours, it’s everyone’s for the taking. It can become anything anyone can put their mind to. Imagine now where the Internet has become so much worse due to AI.

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    Marvelrocks616 7 月 4, 2026

    This got turned on at random and I knew nothing about this but the frog being a meme named pepe. From that perspective, this was an insane watch.

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    steppapa 7 月 4, 2026

    lowkey dream job to be an academic chud expert

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    FinleyOnFilm 7 月 4, 2026

    This documentary mostly just left me disappointed in the human species. What an up and down roller coaster ride of “it’s not that deep, it’s just a frog cartoon” to “Holy shit, these incels are doing what to the frog cartoon!?!?”. Back and forth and back and forth for an hour and a half…. It’s well made, and I learned a lot. I mean I just picked it because I was bored at work and it had a cool thumbnail…

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    UltraViolentMig 7 月 3, 2026

    Un parfait exemple de comment Internet peu détourner le sens de n’importe quoi, même de la grenouille la plus innocente, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Malheur à ceux qui s’en prendraient à mon Drono !!

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    ccppuu 7 月 3, 2026

    Lovely animation. Terrible things happening to the nicest guy.

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    jtacmas 7 月 3, 2026

    Going over how such a nice guy making a comic ends up in a situation where Pepe is a hate symbol and how he’s dealing with it and trying to win it back. Feels bad man.

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    goose1019 7 月 3, 2026

    “you gotta go hardcore happy”

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    keagan 7 月 3, 2026

    matt seems like such a sweet guy. I can’t seem to find much about what hes up to now (latest I’m seeing ~2023), but I genuinely hope that hes in a good place. he doesn’t deserve to have the bullshit spewed by disgusting losers on his conscience

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    IsaacXD 7 月 3, 2026

    Kinda ironic I watched this because I saw a dude on twitter say the thumbnail was ugly and he didn’t want to watch it. Extremely powerful. Not only complex in how it depicts something so simple being easily corrupted, but how it portrays those with low self esteem and how they act because of it. Still extremely relevant 10 years after the 2016 election, and 6 years after it was released. Hate is at an all time high and sometimes…

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    BackToLove 7 月 3, 2026

    The most incredible fucking YouTube refresh pull of all time!!! Seeing this documentary hit me like a thousand bricks would. It was so weird to see something I lived through so intensely in this format. I was 14 and around all of this. Mid twenties men grooming me and spewing ALL of the shit that’s in the documentary. r9k, Elliot Rogers, the alt right, beta uprising, kekastani, all of it. It hurt to learn about this frog that was meant…

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    Em 7 月 2, 2026

    one of the most interesting shots is when pepe’s creator opines the loss of ownership over what pepe is—cut to a dreamcatcher hanging on his car’s rear-view mirror this is a documentary about symbols, cultural objects that become copy-pasted and warped to the point of complete degradation of meaning. what does it mean to “own” something so easily mass-produced, so easily appropriated by whiteness and capital? it’s all very interesting when we’re now 10 years out from the inception point…

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    glam ! 7 月 2, 2026

    The Homer Pepe crypto card is now worth $0

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    konutv 7 月 2, 2026

    Genuine banger of a documentary 🥹

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    hzamane 7 月 2, 2026

    🐸🤏

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    manca 7 月 2, 2026

    pepe :((((((

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    DiffStudios 7 月 2, 2026

    peeing without pants does actually feel kinda good

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    SZilla 7 月 2, 2026

    It’s said that with art, once the artist releases their work upon the world, it is no longer theirs and instead can be interpreted into whatever the viewer chooses. But what happens when an artist’s voice is muted and their work is mutilated into something harmful? This documentary focuses on cartoonist Matt Furie, whose innocent cartoon character was Pepe the Frog was corrupted into becoming a hate symbol by the Internet, and how he tries to cope with that. Destroying…

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    emdoolz 7 月 2, 2026

    I LOVE DOCUMENTARIES. God the way I had genuinely no idea that any of this was going on w pepe i j thought he was a dumb meme, I was truly sheltered from the internet. ALSO Incels suck and need to touch grass genuinely.

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    QRSM 7 月 2, 2026

    This guy didn’t deserve any of this shit, glad he’s still around fighting the good fight and getting the Nazis away from his art Fuck the ADL guys too, TF you mean you aren’t gonna help him at all?

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    oliviaololol 7 月 2, 2026

    honestly the best thing i’ve watched in a while

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    eltheunicorn 7 月 1, 2026

    I really loved this film! I felt like right a way I was captured by the wildness of this story. I love how the filmmakers took us through many different Internet moments from the early 2000s to more current day; whilst overlapping how politics became so quickly and heavily involved in meme and incel culture. I love learning about how obscure cultural moments can become so evident in certain moments and time in history. I am curious how this doc…

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    Puglife250 6 月 30, 2026

    This documentary explores a very new problem, and I’m afraid it will become much more common going forward. It’s unfortunate to live in a world where the work of artists with the purest of intentions can be exploited for the ends of dehumanization. Matt’s story deserves your urgent attention.

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    Eliza 6 月 23, 2026

    Pepe is basically a swastika

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M Matt Furie Self - Artist, Creator of Pepe the Frog
A Aiyana Udesen Self - Artist, Matt's Partner
C Chris Sullivan Self - Matt & Aiyana's Housemate
J Johnny Ryan Self - Typical Cartoonist
L Lisa Hanawalt Self - Artist & Writer
E Emily Heller Self - Comedian & TV Writer
S Susan Blackmore Self - Psychologist & Memetist
D Dale Beran Self - Artist & Writer
M Mills Self - 4channer
P Peder Riis Self - Cartoonist
A Aleks Krotoski Self - Psychologist & Journalist
B Brian McMullen Self - Editor & Art Director
J Joel Finkelstein Self - Director, Network Contagion Research Institute
A Aaron Sankin Self - Journalist
M Matt Braynard Self - Executive Director, Look Ahead America
J John Michael Greer Self - Occultist & Scholar
S Skinner Self - Artist
A Adam Serwer Self - Staff Writer, The Atlantic
R Rachael Finley Self
H Hampton Boyer Self - Artist & Curator
Director Arthur Jones
Writer Arthur Jones, Aaron Wickenden, Giorgio Angelini
Producer Arthur Jones, Aaron Wickenden, Caryn Capotosto, Giorgio Angelini, Caitlin Ward, Kerry McLaughlin, Kurt Keppeler, Maggie Angelini
Executive Producer Kathryn Everett, Bryn Mooser, Justin Lacob, Nion McEvoy, Lou Buglioli, Douglas Patinkin, Leslie Berriman, Susan E. Morrison, Joe Plummer, Rick Rosenthal, Steven H. Cohen, Julie Parker Benello, Regina K. Scully, Paula M. Froehle, Jenny Patinkin, Nancy Stephens, Jenifer Westphal
Editor Katrina Taylor, Drew Blatman, Aaron Wickenden
Original Music Trevor Estes, Eli Pearl, Alex Izenberg, Ari Balouzian, Ryan Hope
Sound Kerry McLaughlin, Ryan McGuigan, Anton Herbert
Synopsis
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.
Director
Arthur Jones
Writer
Arthur Jones, Aaron Wickenden, Giorgio Angelini
Studio
Museum & Crane, Wavelength, XTR, ITVS
Country
USA
Language
English
Year
2020
Runtime
94 mins

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