ISIS-chan is a teenage girl with green hair. She’s only 4ft 11. She’s kind, mild and never hurts anyone. Her favourite food is melon. She’s a cartoon. And she’s fighting ISIS.

She was created back in January by Japanese social media users as part of a widespread online response to ISIS releasing a video threatening the lives of two Japanese hostages. After the group regrettably killed both hostages, the people behind ISIS-chan became even more determined to spread their green haired-girl around the globe.

The anime girl is described as a “weaponised meme” to disturb the extremist group’s propaganda, according to leader of the ISIS-chan movement, Japanese activist, @isisvipper. The character’s goal is to bring peace and melons (yeah, she really loves melons), to ISIS members, and to teach them that knives are for cutting up fruit rather than violence.

The leader also says anyone who wants to be part of the meme team is welcome. There are rules in place to ensure the movement doesn’t become unruly, misguided, or Islamophobic, Mainly, that the images should always be about ISIS the group and never about Islam the religion.

Already, she’s appeared in animations, videos, paintings; depicted smashing ISIS members over the head or in a Super ISIS-Chan Melon Bros (spin-off of Mario Bros), as My Little Pony or photoshopped into ISIS propaganda images.

The crowd-sourced anime character is infinitely more tasteful than 4chan’s pink-haired Ebola-chan, a cute female fairy-cum-death reaper anime representation bringing Ebola and eventual death. ISIS-chan may be on of those moments where the internet has given birth to something positive. Have memes finally moved beyond their Forever Alone and Doge beginnings to bring a political message? It could be.