How did pepe emotes/emojis become so popular?

[lolkay]

I love them but have no idea where do they from and who created them, that person must be 200+ IQ

 

[Doyoung]

The original pepe was from an illustrator, he does "ugly cute" stuff, quirky cartoonish stuff. Then it became a meme, "sad pepe" a few years ago. Then it got appropriated by the alt right 4ch*n trolls, became a fascist meme, and the author was heartbroken. He ended up suing an alt right tv personality for using his pepe though, and won

 

[rektinq]

someone prob just made some emotes put it on the web as a joke but then people actually liked em and then went viral- o wait theres a much better reply up there ^ LMAO

 

[Vanilla Cupcake]

I think he was a character from a comic series called Boy's Club. And someone used some of the comic strips as a reaction picture and it kinda got popular:

The original "Feels Good, man" LMAO - That context...

Spoiler

 

[Kaitoh]

Twitch chat made it famous