Mmmm Myes Pet Froge

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About

Mmmm Myes Pet Froge refers to a GIF caption of a frog being petted that inspired similar GIF captions in early-to-mid 2020. A series of Twitch emotes using the hand petting the frog known as PETTHE Emotes began circulating in May 2020.

Origin

The origins of the meme lie with frogposting, a trend that began on Instagram sometime in early 2020, as noted in a February 26th, 2020 VICE article about the subject.^[1] On February 18th, 2020, content creator DitzyFlama posted a sped-up GIF of a person petting a frog with on Twitter that gained almost 14,000 likes and over 8,100 retweets in four months (shown below).^[2] The source of the frog petting GIF is unknown.

On the same day, Discord user Infinitium created a GIF caption with the frog petting GIF reading “mmmm myes pet froge,” spelling frog similarly to doge (shown below).^[3] On February 19th, Tenor user dragonicz uploaded Infinitium's GIF to Tenor.^[4]

Spread

After Tenor user dragonicz uploaded the mmmm myes pet froge gif to Tenor, it received attention on Discord due to Tenor’s integration with Discord. On March 2nd, Instagram novelty account dailyphrogs posted an edit of the original frog petting GIF that received over 180,000 views in four months (shown below).^[5]

On March 3rd, YouTuber Coalicious uploaded a similar video with sound effects and the “mmmm myes pet froge” caption, gaining 10,000 views in four months (shown below, left).^[6] On March 6th, content creator ploxyzero uploaded an edit of the frog petting GIF with the Froggy Chair from Animal Crossing and the Legendary theme from Pokémon Black and White.^[7] ploxyzero uploaded this edit to YouTube on March 14th and received over 14,000 views in four months (shown below, right).^[8]

Mmmm Myes X Froge

On March 25th, Tenor user osugame uploaded^[9] the first known edit of a frog GIF in the “mmmm myes X frog” format, with a GIF of frogs being washed^[10] (shown below, left) On March 31st, Tenor user cavoeboy uploaded a frog GIF with the caption “mmmm myes handshake frog” (shown below, right).^[11] Soon, people began making GIF captions in the “mmmm myes X froge” format for people interacting with frogs and other animals.

Various Examples

Pet the X / PETTHE Emotes

The original frog petting GIF inspired a series of Twitch emotes in which the frog in the “pet the frog” GIF is replaced by various subjects. On May 16th, 2020, user of the Twitch emote extension BetterTTV (BTTV) flammel_xd created two emotes in the PETTHE format. The first was PETTHEPEEPO^[12] featuring the peepoHappy emote (shown below, left) and the second was PETTHECUTIE^[13] which features the BTTV emote AYAYA (shown below, right). Six weeks after being posting, PETTHEPEEPO became used on over 3,300 Twitch channels,^[12] making it the most successful PETTHE variant.

Following PETTHEPEEPO, people began creating PETTHE emotes in response to various Twitch streamers accepting new channel emotes. On May 23rd, BTTV user ayyybubu uploaded a variant called “PETTHEMANLET” with Twitch streamer Nymn being petted (shown below, left).^[14] On the 27th, Twitch streamer GreekGodx uploaded “PETTHEGREKLER” to BTTV for his channel (shown below, center).^[15] On May 28th, BTTV user senboni uploaded “PETTHESCHNOZER” which showed the nose of streamer xQc’s being petted (shown below, right).^[16] senboni submitted it to xQc’s subreddit on the same day and it received almost 3,000 upvotes within a month.^[17] xQc accepted the emote the next day.^[18]