What is the name of the emoticon of the young sad frog?

The emoticon of the young sad frog is called a simple and unpretentious little croak. It is popular because of its often sad and sad expression. Because it always has a sad face, everyone affectionately calls it the Sad Frog, but unexpectedly many people also bump into the Sad Frog.

It is such a comic that is a bit heavy-handed and a bit devilish. It was posted on the website 4chan by netizens on January 22, 2009, and then it became popular. Netizens made a second creation based on this cool frog, adjusting its mouth in one direction, and then the sad frog that became popular all over the world was born.

On November 28, 2020, at the Sanya Station of the Strawberry Music Festival, well-known two-dimensional images such as Sad Frog broke through the wall and landed at the music festival. As a two-dimensional image that has been popular among young people in recent years, the Sad Frog is cute, sad yet optimistic.

Not only does it have a subtle resonance with the daily life of young people, but it also overlaps with folk, electronic music and other music enthusiast groups. Therefore, in the preparation period for this year’s Strawberry Music Festival, Modern Sky is associated with sadness. Frog's agent in Greater China, iSand, has reached an agreement to cooperate and build an exclusive area at the Strawberry Music Festival to give fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with this yuppie frog.

In May 2021, the China Greening Foundation’s Happy Home Project teamed up with the sad frog Pepe to launch the Plant in Your Hands, Grow a Green Smiley series of environmental themed advocacy activities. This event invited Gong Jun, Ouyang Nana, Chen Yihan, Xu Kai, Ma Tianyu and many other charity star ambassadors to participate in communication and advocacy, and carried out topic interactions on the Weibo platform to attract the attention of fans and the public and take action to protect biodiversity.

This expression, which combines decadence, sadness and loser, is often used to express disappointment, sadness, frustration and other emotions, which is exactly in line with the psychological state of most users of the 4chan forum at that time. As the creation of emoticons around Pepe the Frog got out of hand, Pepe the Frog quickly left 4chan and invaded the entire social network. Since 2014, Pepe the Frog has become a popular meme, with fans including Kate Perry and others.

After constant pranks from netizens, different expressions and cartoons gradually appeared. However, with the various creations of netizens, the direction of this emoticon has gradually become difficult to control. In September 2015, a Malaysian creator connected Pepe and Trump and created the following emoticon package.

With more and more connections with Trump, Pepe’s image has gradually darkened and distorted. The Pepe emoticons created by netizens began to contain some extreme symbols such as Hitler’s mustache and the Ku Klux Klan. Hood, various white supremacy symbols, etc., this frog has also become an emoticon representing hatred.

As of September 27, the Anti-Defamation League in the United States officially added the frog image to its racial hatred database. Once someone uses this meme, the website will tell people that the user may be racist and have white supremacist tendencies.