It's just a drawing of a frog, but some people on here flip out if they see it. One frog can derail a thread, I'm sure most people have seen it happen. I don't get it, someone please explain why this is such an issue for some.
>>482111
Every generation of newfags has their idols.
>>482112
The faces change but the very basic concepts behind the memes stay the same.
>>482116
Smart grinposter.
no one gets mad in b
>>482111
nice trips dumb frogposter
>>482111
it means they're either underage or a redditor, either of which should not be tolerated you dumb frogposter
>>482687
>dumb frogposter
Isn't that redundant?
>>482111
I decided to randomly check 9gagfor some reason yesterday and I saw meme frogs everywhere
How the fuck is this shit any more acceptable than rage guy and troll face?
>>482694
Like >>482116 and >>482112
before them: these frogposters, too, shall pass.
>mfw Matt Furie
>>482692
Dumb animeposter
Would you rather see anime or a frog?
>>482838
I'd much rather see anime.
It's the weebs, they are jealous that a non-anime meme is so popular. They prefer their smug anime girls.
>>482857
Representative of the non-weeb community here, we hate it too. Frogs are just ugly looking, at least anime girls are pretty.
>>482111
Dumb frogposter
>>482111
because its associated with reddit/facebook/normies/idiots
>>482935
It's a pretty good representation of 4chan then.
>>482975
It's true and you know it. Unless you're an idiot.
>>482122
HIS NAME IS COCKMONGLER YOU STUPID FAGGOT FUCK YOU
>>483032
* The wind is howling.
>>482972
good point
<--- Hell for some, heaven for others.
>>482111
because of the amount of smugness associated with the type of user who posts frogs.
The person who typically uses a picture of pepe to accompany their opinion is one of the types who are so certain that what they're saying is so right that it's impossible to be wrong, so they post this image of a smug looking frog to show said smug confidence.
Additionally it's basically the newest version of trollface but with even less effort due to things like reddit and facebook which long term chan users have an immediate shrieking hatred for, so it's a combination of all those thigns.
>>484733
What about all of the smug anime girls? I don't see people get as annoyed at them.
>>482924
>i-its ok when I do it
>anime is cute. CUTE
>>486263
people do get very annoyed I assure you, just look in the /qa/ archive for proof
>>486263
consider that anime is pretty much what 4chan was founded on it's more tolerated.
not that it doesn't make 'smug anime face' any less of a shitpost
>>486384
>4chan was founded on anime
>13 years later site has over 60 boards, less than a quarter of which have anything even remotely to do with anime
>b-but this is a website for anime so its allowed
You'd be right if it was still 2003, but I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you weren't even born by then
>>484733
That sounds pretty logical. But then again I've seen people get triggered over a 9gag watermark before, so I just figure they're stupid.
>>482112
I never thought to compare the two.
Does that mean shitpost le frog is going to turn up in the normie facebook comics for years to come?
>>482111
It depends on what board you're on.
Most boards do not give a shit.
But on some boards it becomes the "cool" thing to hate something.
>>486596
It's already there.
>>486263
Yeah you do. They happen to all be dumb frogposters.
People don't seem to mind Wojak at all. Maybe it's the lack of smugness.
>>486613
pepe's presence should lessen continually over the next couple months, but and there needs to be a proper replacement for it to fully go away.
>>486613
I only saw someone in my family use it once.
They don't know that I browse the shit-hole of the internet btw, so didn't have any influence.
How wide-spread is it?
>>486613
>Snoop Dogg
>a normalfag
LAUGHING MY FUCKING BUTT OFF
>>482111
pepe is cancer thats why
a.) It's a calling card of an r9k user and no one outside their board likes them much at fucking all
b.) It's been used to shitpost and flood boards like /r9k/ and /int/ into fucking oblivion at points, further reinforcing it a value-less image
c.) It's been picked up by ledditors and normalfags who don't even understand how to use it which is painful cringe to witness and associate yourself with by proxy
d.) Looks fucking retarded and is one of the ultimate forced memes, used to be just "sadfrog" like 4-5 years ago and somehow morphed into pepe shit
Most importantly that all pales in comparison to
e.) It is essentially impossible that a good post has a frog image attached to it. I personally can't recall a single time. It's always for shitposting or blogging. Maybe it's partially because using it makes your post look worse by default, but mostly because people using it are not really bothering to participate in conversations.
Since it's always the one pic 90% of the time this becomes easily noticed as a trend of useless/lazy baiting posts, hence "dumb frogposter" became a thing
>>488828
Objectively incorrect.
>>488855
this t b h
r9k was responsible for rare pepes in the first place
>>488932
>reddit was responsible for rare pepes in the first place*
*fixed
Who /alwayssaging/ here?
>>488855
Why would you write all of that text about something you don't even know the first thing about. Pepe was always Pepe.
>>488933
What did you change, anon?
>>488943
>>488933
No they just stole it form /r9k/ and the "post rare pepes"-threads.
Two janitors named Goofus and Gallant both hated their jobs and decided to quit.
Goofus is too slow to realize the difference between wanting real change and superficial change, so applies to be a janitor at another company and lives out the rest of his life in misery.
Gallant realises that real change was needed and sets his sights on a totally different job, where he lives happily ever after.
Did you catch the moral of the story?
Frogpost haters are like Goofus. Don't be like Goofus.
Because Pepe looks ugly
>>487958
Still wondering this. Why is all of the hate centered on pepe? Wojak gets posted just as much.
It's an image always used for shitposting. No constructive post would use it as its image.
>>489036
>I only come to 4chan for mature high quality discussion
The weather today is cloudy with a chance of pepe.
>>488855
pretty spot on
they're just dumb, and if you point that out then the dumb frogposter will become very defensive and aggresively post more dumbfrogs in an attempt to prove you wrong but will hilariously prove you right
>>482111
This thread changed my opinion on dumb frogposters
>>489642
There will always be exceptions to every general rule
Can I post pre-smug-happy-pepe and not have people call me a "dumb frog poster"?
>>489685
You can post whatever you want within the rules, friend. It helps if it's on topic, like this hybrid variant.
>>489037
>4chan is only for shitposting!
>I take my serious posting to Reddit!
Fuck off.
>>489795
True happiness is found in the balance between shitposting and quality.
You are leading an unbalanced life. Seek help.
>>489814
>I feel an impulse to defend any degree of shitposting.
>>489820
You think frogs are the highest degree of shitposting?
>>489822
>I'm also, unsurprisingly, illiterate and have very poor reading comprehension.
>>489828
I'm sorry for your loss
>>482111
because they're dumb
>>488978
no he doesn't you dumb frogposter
>>482112
This.
4chan was almost done with pepe, until a new generation came in, and revitalized him. Because they were/are in gradeschool, and thought this old meme was still funny.
I noticed the newfags come in, along with the phrase "dumb frogposter". Which was a phrase I never heard used on 4chan, until very suddenly. When in my first encounter, in the same thread, another anon tells me "when someone posts frogs, you have to say "dumb frogposter"". And then he proceeded to so, to everyone posting pepe. It was so childish the way he insisted using that phrase, that I just knew it was some new generation kiddie shit.
So basically, frogposters are just unfunny, meme-spouting kids in my eyes.
>>489922
So you hate both groups or what?
Also I started dumb frogposter in /tv/ in I think, July 2014? It was to this guy who would post the same thread every night "You hanging in there /tv/?" I just got annoyed by the repetitive and lazy posts that were accompanied by frogs. It's a pretty reliable sign that the post or thread sucks and had little thought put into it, a marker of quality analogous to "image.jpg". I never spammed it outside of /tv/ though.
>>489966
You're seriously bragging about starting something on 4chan.
This is probably the third time I've seen you do this shit.
People are trying to claim memetic horseshit phrases on 4chan now. This is how pathetic people vying for social capital are these days.
Fucking Facebook generation.
>>489976
Point out the bragging please? I was just giving information on what is basically a meta board. Stop trying to force everything through your perspective. If you're that jaded and depressed maybe it's time for you to call it quits.
>>489966
No, it happened during 2015.
>>489978
How many times have you stated "I started 'dumb frogposter'" exactly on this board?
Fuck off, please. Fuck off back to wherever you've come from. I love how you also try to make it look like I'm the pathetic person here, that there's something wrong with me instead of you faggots who came here within the last two years and try to claim things from an anonymous perspective. That shit is vastly pathetic. You're trying to separate yourself from an anonymous collective by taking credit for something that you specifically did, something that you can't even prove might I add. You don't get to hang onto specific things that identify yourself, or accomplishments as an anonymous poster on this site. Sorry it's not like Reddit.
>>489859
I only read posts with frogs, post a frog next to your comments and I'll look at them.
>>489984
>being this much of a sperg
>>489984
People claim things about themselves all the time on here. You act like this is new or something and yet are being triggered by it. You're apparently even attributing all people on /qa/ who have claimed to start 'dumb frogposter' to me. Obviously I have no proof, it's not like I use a tripcode or filmed myself typing it out for the first time. You were giving anecdotes about your personal experience here and now you're enraged that I shared my own anecdote that was directly relevant to yours. Believe me or don't.
This guy doesn't for instance >>489983
>>490000
I'm 100% sure that it started on /tv/ some time during 2015.
>>490005
I saw someone link archives once and it had August 2014 that was in there. For whatever reason I feel like I had started in July because I remembered first posting it to those hangin' in there threads and that wasn't the earliest instance recorded.
Just googling "dumb frogposter 2014" shows the phrase in 2014 at least, on 4chan and elsewhere, with /r9k/ already being triggered by it.
>>482111
I don't get mad. Its just an ugly image to look at so I filter the image hash of every one I come across. The fact that 99% of the time it is accompanied by a retarded ass post is just a bonus.
>>489922
This.
I swear it was almost like it happened over night. My guess is there was a storm brewing on some particular boards, probably because their users didn't know how to ignore trolls and actually tried fighting back, which obviously would just have led to increased usage.
and I'm not talking about the "well I can predict the post quality will be low whenever I see one of these images" because there's probably hundreds of other images on 4chan that you can say that exact same thing about. So pretending that that's the only reason this one particular thing gets so much flak is bullshit.
There's more to it than that because it's basically reached meme levels. That image can't be posted on any board anymore without people getting upset, even on boards that basically almost never see pepe to begin with and really have no historical reason to hate it.
It's just a meme started by hatred that grew on a few particular boards which became over exaggerated and spread around by newfags whos first encounters with trolls were probably pepe, and have never even seen the phrase "feels good man" on 4chan before.
>>489966
>So you hate both groups or what?
Yes, basically. It's like baneposting to me. There is someone pitching, and another hitting.
One guy pitches by posting pepe. And then multiple anons show up to try and hit it, by saying "dumb frogposter". So you're both at fault for playing your dumb shitposting game.
>>482111
Its just fun to reply with "dumb frogposter" and completely disregard whatever the poster said.
It's a meme basically.
Kinda like when someone posts moot and people reply with "who is moot?"
When did meme frog become "pepe"?
He doesn't even look mexican...
>>483032
Nah, it's smileman
>>482111
Frogs are invariably attached to dumb posts.
>>490230
literally who?
Well OP, I'll take a stab at it.
Without fail, each and every time someone is posting a frog picture, they are appending something amazingly fucking retarded to the picture with their stupid posts that are either really retarded questions or completely pointless statements (in other words, shitposting), are deliberately attempting to continue some sort of frogposting memespouter's circlejerk that ends up being something about "meme magic," a session of jamming as many buzzwords and memes into one post as humanly possible or impossible, retarded post-2014 /pol/ or /int/ faggotry, typical edgy or retarded /r9k/ self-loathing or smugness in spite of having done nothing with one's life or what have you.
It doesn't help that the people who get criticized for acting like retarded frogposters and by extension memespouters rely on telling everyone who they disagree with to go back to /r/4chan, especially since they're using a meme that was made popular by such a subreddit anyway; not to mention the rest of the normalized Web 2.0.
It's not as if frogposters are just this persecuted group that everyone hates for absolutely no reason whatsoever, they earned their reputation through shitposting and acting like faggots (which they're actually fairly proud of; that's even more than enough reason to hate them). They acted like faggots, got called faggots, got offended at being called faggots and instead of changing their behavior and not acting like underaged twats every time they're met with criticism, they just intensified their original behavior and then turned right back around to wonder why everyone hates them.
tl;dr, frogposters have all of the smugness and unwarranted self-importance of smug anime girl posters and absolutely none of the intelligence nor the grace of them. Pepe has become the calling card of the inexperienced, the naive, the unintelligent and those that are proud of those things but will still get upset when people criticize them for being so damn stupid.
>>490230
>It's a meme you dip!
You're no better than the frogposter.
>>490327
>instead of changing their behavior and not acting like underaged twats every time they're met with criticism, they just intensified their original behavior
This has literally been true about every troll ever since the beginning of time. Why do people expect this case to be any different?
The misunderstanding here is this:
>They acted like faggots, got called faggots, got offended at being called faggots
>got offended at being called faggots
Come on, this is 4chan. I promise you this isn't true for nearly as many frogposters as you'd want to think.
Maybe that's where it starts, but there really are people who have never been a part of the initial cause for you hating pepe, but will post it anyway now. Either as a way to say "lighten the fuck up" or because they're trolls and they know it's going to upset people.
Take this for example
>tl;dr, frogposters have all of the smugness and unwarranted self-importance of smug anime girl posters and absolutely none of the intelligence nor the grace of them. Pepe has become the calling card of the inexperienced, the naive, the unintelligent and those that are proud of those things but will still get upset when people criticize them for being so damn stupid.
I'm tempted to just post the image to make light of what you're saying, because you're being so serious, and making such generalized claims about something so comparatively silly.
>>490435
Not him but it's purely reactionary. You don't have people starting threads just to say dumb frogposter. In that regard, the person who says "dumb frogposter" is better.
>>490327
Good post. I basically assume every frogposter is underage. Otherwise if they actually make a half-intelligent post or are clearly an /r9k/ crossposter, I assume they built a really large folder, especially after the "rare pepe" autism, and they just can't move on due to sunk cost fallacy, and so they feel compelled to append images from that folder every so often to feel like they didn't waste their time collecting frog pictures.
Though again, a portion of those people clearly just saved big albums from imgur (due to the filenames), sourced via /r/4chan, so that just tells you even more about who frogposters are.
>>490739
This.
>>490741
>>490747
>>490749
That gif is super gay
>>490753
This.
>>490573
>Take this for example
I know, right?:
>>490327
>tl;dr, frogposters have all of the smugness and unwarranted self-importance of smug anime girl posters and absolutely none of the intelligence nor the grace of them.
The intelligence and grace of smug anime girl posters? What? For someone claiming frogposters are dumb you just posted some of the stupidest shit I've ever seen.
>>490777
see how that one got used in >>490638
>>490778
If you mean the pepe I grabbed it from there, it's a good one :)
>>490796
what I meant was it was used to tell a story in that thread in a way that wasn't really shitposting.
>>490741
Never fucking reply to me again unless you're contributing to the thread.
>>490800
This
>>490798
Ah ok. Also it's a metaphor for Pepe consuming the thoughts of the OP. Deep.
>>490777
>The intelligence and grace of smug anime girl posters?
Anime girls are known for being graceful and intelligent. Also, nice trips.
>>490800
I never liked this meme to be honest.
>>490800
this
>>491252
I think it's great. It immediately shuts down discussion because how do you even respond to that?
>>491302
You just respond
>>489692
What the fuck is it with old as fuck reaction images suddenly becoming memes recently?
>>491368
I don't know why Anon... Nothing new under the sun, they say.
help food helpper help need food i i food help
helpp food helpper
>>488895
says the cancerous frogposter
>>492095
>>492108
and somehow you covered the cancer in aids.
>>492124
Don't talk about your mom like that.
>>492131
>mom jokes
so, you're what? 12?
>>492141
12 inches in your dad
>>492150
sooner or later your gonna run out of pepes bre
>>492158
I have at least 78,000 pepes at my disposal
>>489037
yes
>>489984
He is actually pretty correct about the origins of the phrase whether or not he was in fact the guy to do it.
>>490777
>The intelligence and grace of smug anime girl posters?
yes actually. My experience with smug anime posters is that while their posts are and should be classified as shitposts, they're so well constructed that it's almost impossible for anyone reading them not to laugh.
At least smug anime images have something endearing about them.
>>492454
Better to be a passive-aggressive weeb than a passive-aggressive frogposter.
>>492460
this to be honest famiry
>>492437
>>492443
Actually, frog posters put more effort into their posts than smug anime girl posters, because lots of them design their own pepes. Smug anime girls are 99% just screencaps of some form of weeb trash.
>>492484
So? That's worse because people are drawing shitty Deviantart tier trash. Anime actually looks good because it's drawn by a REAL artist.
>>489642
I'll be damned. A frogposting story on /b/, and it was touching. I have a tear in my eye FFS.
>>492460
Frogposters are not passive-aggressive at all. Weebs are passive-aggressive and they lack a sense of humour and self-distance.
Vice article from April 9, 2015 on the (then currently ongoing) Pepe Market Crash and how it came about as a result of the meme's use by Katy Perry and Nikki Minaj. Touches on the history the frog image and it's stages of evolution from Furie to "The Pepenning"
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/4chans-frog-meme-went-mainstream-so-they-tried-to-kill-it
>An infographic posted to Reddit last week... (includes a) final speculative prediction that by 2016 Pepe will reach “Doge status,” leading to his self-implosion.
Pic is pepe "meme magic" post from Jan 2016
P.S. personally, I don't feel very strongly about frogposting one way or the other. I have to say I prefer frogposters to "dumb frogposter" posters.
>>492980
God, meme magic is fucking hilarious.
>>492993
The internet is serious business, friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_engineering
>1990 was 20 years ago was 6 years ago
>>489642
>>492484
This is literally the pepe image smashed onto the dog image-- no, an outline. God this looks so much like shit. It's not hard to do at all, and it looks disgusting.
>lol they screengrab shit for reactions
99% of all such images on this site bucko
Because they are cancer
>>493093
Takes one to know one, am I right fellas?
>>493089
Is this pepe kawaii enough for you senpai?
Pepe in its current form is actually inspired by anime in the first place. Most Pepe images are actually traces of smug anime girls but with Pepe's face edited on.
>>484678
>>487958
>>488895
>>489633
>>492131
the effort put into some of these is admirable
>>493093
Hi there!
You seem to have made a bit of a mistake in your post. Luckily, the users of 4chan are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have used a tripcode when posting, but your identity has nothing at all to do with the conversation! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using your tripcode when the thread it was used for is gone, unless another one is started! Posting with a tripcode when it isn't necessary is poor form. You should always try to post anonymously, unless your identity is absolutely vital to the post that you're making!
Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bit to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!
>>493442
this is one of the only ones I kinda like
it's a handful, and but this is one of them
>>493472
Agreed. It is a rare exception.
>>493462
>tracing
>effort
LOL
Why did it have to be smug Eliot Rodger pepe?
Eliot was so remarkably insecure yet tried to act like he was really confident. I can't help but think of pepe posters as like little Eliot Rodgers who want to cause hurt because they are actually very insecure. It's very teen.
>>493016
I like you.
Conan O'Brien was in Korea for an extended segment on his show, and /tv/ had a thread about how hilarious it was.
Pepes showed up.
>pic related
it's because the mobile user generation doesn't even try to do anything original anymore. frogposting, bane, fucking rolls dubs shit it's all the same shit we did years ago.
>>493617
4chan's too fast.
Likely by the time you create and post something unique it's already irrelevant in the discussion, and on top of that it's going to scroll out of view in a few minutes, and probably only 5-10 people saw it if you're lucky.
I've been noticing problems with this more and more. I don't even look through macro images that much anymore because it always takes too long (compared to the speed of threads) to find something appropriate, now I usually just look for reaction images since it's easier to find something appropriate from the thumbnail.
and I don't think it's just me, because unless I'm mistaken it looks like all over 4chan the ratio of reaction images to others has been increasing.
>>493468
His identity is vital to being an attention whore.
>>493617
Don't kid yourself weeb, your smug anime girl are not original at all.
>>494123
Explain how they aren't.
>>494135
They're literally just screenshots. pepes aren't screenshots.
>>494140
Pepes are worse. They're traced screenshots. Someone traced them with a really shaky hand and used the "fill" button on Paint. Look how wobbly the OP Pepe is, and how it's all solid colors.
>>494147
It's still more effort than just taking a screenshot.
>>494175
And what? People just magically know how to find the exact frame of an anime? You have to go hunt that frame down. Any of us could make a Pepe that some autist would save as a "rare" right now, but finding a good anime screenshot takes patience, effort, and the proper materials.
>>494177
is this nigga serious?
>>494186
My double dubs says I am right.
>>482116
The difference is that, if you tried spamming Cockmongler or Reidick et al. on other boards, at best, you'd me met with a barrage of "gb2/b." But frogposters and other memeshitters think they're fucking special and can spam their shit wherever they want.
>>494242
Probably because they don't just stick to "fuck off" or "gb2/wherever"
it's always "After intensive study I have concluded that the average quality of contribution of the frogposter seems to be sub-par no matter how hard they try. What a strange phenomenon that this image is always linked to posts that upset me, it's almost as if it was by design but do you really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and try to make people angry?"
>>494253
>Probably because they don't just stick to "fuck off" or "gb2/wherever"
what do you think 'dumb frogposter' is? It's so banal an insult that you can hardly say that the poster is mad. A boring response to a boring image (and likely a boring post as well). It's a stark contrast for 4chan's usual fare because of just how tame of a phrase it is.
>>494256
Obviously I wasn't talking about that phrase.
>>494177
>finding a good anime screenshot takes patience, effort, and the proper materials
Ok now make it into a pepe. The extra step involved is why frogposting requires more effort. Even moreso if designing from scratch.
>>494623
Ok now make your pepe into an anime screenshot. It's much harder.
>>490753
>>494942
Now it's super cool
>>494629
Why would you want to take something valuable and turn it into trash?
>>482111
Because they add nothing relevant to whatever's being discussed in the thread and purposely use froshit to shitpost in threads. Frogshit is the new trollface, except more unfunny and autistic.
>>496161
I know right? It's so pathetic it's almost as if they were doing it on purpose.
But who would do such a thing on the internet?
>>496161
Lots of people that don't post frogs post dumb stuff too. I don't think pepe posters are any worse or better than other posters. If anything they're a bit more creative since some of them create new pepes.
#NotAllFrogPosters
>>497461
frog shill detected
go back to /r9k/
Boils down to newfags recycling old and busted memes instead of creaing OC content.
Also frog posting is degenerate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXWlMlQEwU
>>498341
That mentality just means you're 1 step above newfag status to see that pattern.
Gain another level and you'll see all new patterns.
