The Feels Bad Man meme features Pepe the Frog, a character originally created by artist Matt Furie for his 2005 comic Boy's Club. This specific variation, known as Sad Frog, gained massive popularity on 4chan around 2008 as a somber counterpart to the Feels Good Man catchphrase. It serves as a universal reaction image for expressing disappointment, failure, or general sadness in response to life's minor and major inconveniences. While Pepe has seen various transformations across internet subcultures, the Sad Frog remains a definitive symbol of internet melancholy, used widely to convey empathy or self-deprecating humor in digital conversations.