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Today, we have a look at get out frog.
Most internet users are familiar with get out frog. He appears quite frequently in animated gifs and photoshopped images online.
He's the iconic frog with a blank look on his face who sometimes has better dance moves than Michael Jackson himself.
As his name may imply, images of the frog are sometimes used to single out a person or group of people in an online group
discussion to get out, especially when they say something wrong,
Or do something dumb. But get out frog has become so iconic,
He is now known more for being a part of internet culture than he is for telling people to get out.
The popular Meme first appeared online in November of
2005 in a YouTube video uploaded by [the channel Kurat. In this video adult film star Next Door Nicki poses
provocatively for a photo shoot taking place.
Next to her are some stuffed animals one of which is a frog with a blank look on his face.
That's right. The iconic meme first started his life as a stuffed animal in a pornographic video.
Hey, we all have to start somewhere, right?
Years later in July of 2009,
The Something Awful website user Chaos Ringer
created a thread in which he asked other members of the
Community to help him find the website to buy the stuffed animal that was seen in the video.
For some reason, it became the goal of the Something Awful community to locate and find the stuffed frog online,
But their objective was much harder than anticipated. [The] frog was nowhere to be found.
In August of that year, the unique story of an online community search for a stuffed animal begun to appear on various other sites.
People started to become infatuated with the search as well as the frog itself.
Around this time the first photoshopped images and animated gifs of the frog were first created and posted to various online communities.
Its popularity continued to grow. It grew so much that [its] relevance begun to spread beyond the original communities
And into more mainstream sites such as YouTube and 4chan.
Primarily thanks to its prominent usage [in] animated [gifs]. [In] recent years, the meme has gained more notoriety,
thanks to his usage in various YouTube MLG montage parody videos.
His usage is so prominent
That some people simply know him as MLG frog.
MLG parody videos are a whole sub-Genre of YouTube videos where people create
Montage parodies which are described as videos that parody videogame
Montages as well as [MLG] culture and a coherent and well-thought-out men. Basically, it's a type of video that are known for their ridiculous
concepts, as well as rough edits using images that are well-known in the Genres community.
The images that are known in this genre of videos are images such as the Illuminati triangle, Snoop Dogg,
Obey hats,
Doritos, a mountain [dew] product placement, and every once in a while, our buddy get out frog makes an appearance.
Doing a mesmerizing dancing and even more mesmerizing rainbow of colors that is so mesmerizing. It's almost
hypnotizing. All bow before get out frog!
He is the meme king! He is our master! Get out frog is our master!
(record scratch)
Whoa that was weird, I blacked out for a minute there.
Where was I? Oh, yes!
So there we have it.
Get out frog started off in humble beginnings as an extra in a softcore
Porno video, before eventually becoming a meme people of all ages love and enjoy. While doing my research for this video,
I begun to think about the way get out frog first became popular.
You know how the
community went on an Epic search trying to locate the place to be able to buy the stuffed animal? I got curious to see if
I can locate one myself. After some Google searching I discovered an Etsy [shop] that appears to be run by an
individual who makes replicas of the stuffed animal by hand. I was shocked to see that this person charges
$80 for a stuffed animal. It just goes to show how popular get out frog has become. But hey,
That's the internet for you, and on the internet, memes are king.
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