It is such a cartoon that is a bit heavy-tongued and a bit ghostly. On June 22, 2009, it was put on 4chan by netizens, and then it became popular. On the basis of this cool frog, netizens made a second creation, adjusted its mouth in one direction, and then gave birth to the sad frog that later became popular all over the world.
20201October 28th, 165438+ At the Strawberry Music Festival in sanya station, the sad frog and other famous binary images broke the wall of the Airborne Music Festival. Sad frog, as a secondary image sought after by young people in recent years, is cute, cheap and optimistic in sadness.
It not only has subtle tones with young people's daily life, but also coincides with music lovers such as folk songs and electronic music. Therefore, during the preparation of this year's Strawberry Music Festival, Modern Sky reached a cooperation intention with Ai Shan, the agent of Sad Frog in Greater China, and set up an exclusive area at the Strawberry Music Festival site to give fans a chance to get close to this yuppie frog.
In May, 20021,the Happy Home Project of China Green Foundation cooperated with Pepe the Sad Frog to launch a series of environmental protection theme advocacy activities, and planted a green smiling face in your hands. The event invited Simon, Nana Ou-yang, Chen Yihan, Soso, Ray Ma and many other public star ambassadors to participate in communication and advocacy, and conducted topic interaction on the Weibo platform to attract the attention of fans and the public and protect biodiversity.
This kind of expression, which combines decadence, sadness and failure, is often used to express disappointment, sadness and frustration, which is just in line with the psychological state of most users of 4chan Forum at that time. With the creation of Yan characters around Pepe Frog out of control, Pepe Frog quickly stepped out of 4chan and invaded the whole social network. From 20 14, Pepe Frog has become a popular stalk, and its fans include fruit sister Kate Perry and so on.
After the constant spoof of netizens, different expressions and cartoons gradually appeared. However, under the various campaigns of netizens, the trend of this expression pack is gradually difficult to control. 2065438+In September 2005, a Malaysian creator linked Pepe and Trump and created the following emoticons.
With more and more contact with Trump, Pepe's image is gradually blackened and distorted. Pepe expression packs created by netizens began to contain some extreme signs, such as Hitler's moustache, Klan hood, various symbols of white supremacy and so on. This frog has also become an expression pack representing hatred.
On September 27th, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) (ADL) officially added this frog image to the racial hatred database. Once someone uses this expression, the website will tell people that users may have racial discrimination and white supremacy.