A very interesting trailer has dropped for the film festival award-winning documentary Feels Good Man. The story follows artist Matt Furie, who created the underground comic book Boys Club in 2006, starring Pepe, a psychedelic frog, and his mischievous roommates. Then in recent years, the comic character was turned into an alt-right meme, and was adopted as a symbol of white supremacists, and Furie went on a crusade to see if he could undo what had been done.

Heres the full synopsis:

When Matt Furie first created Pepe the Frog, a character in his indie comicBoys Club, Matt was an easygoing San Francisco artist and Pepe was a chill frog dude. Through a series of unforeseen events and bizarre connections driven by the internet, Pepe came to be a symbol of hate for the far right. How that exactly happened is a wild journey into the heart of online life today and the memeification of our shared collective culture, where the meanings of images change moment to moment and cannot be controlled even by their creators.

Furie decides to fight to take back Pepe from the dark forces that have turned him from a silly comic-book character into their own symbol. But is it already too late? Debut director Arthur Jones takes us through a modern-day saga of the internet that must be seen to be believed or understood.Feels Good Manshows us how a character meant to provide joy and fun can slowly morph into something elsebut just maybe can change again.

The doc was helmed by Arthur Jones in his directorial debut, and he co-wrote the story with Giorgio Angelini and Aaron Wickenden. Check out the trailer below, and see Feels Good Man when it hits VOD on September 4th.

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Trailer for Award-Winning Doc FEELS GOOD MAN Takes Viewers on an Artist's Journey to Reclaim His Creation 'Pepe the Frog' - GeekTyrant