Foul Bachelor Frog

About

Foul Bachelor Frog is an advice animal image macro series featuring a frog’s face in front of a color wheel background containing various shades of green. The images captions often depict lazy, disgusting and hedonistic behaviors associated with single men.

Origin

The original photo of the frog, filename frog-freckles-sore-throat-worst-home-remedies.jpg, first appeared in a post on the now defunct site remedicated.com titled “10 Bizarre and Ineffective Home Treatments” published sometime in June of 2008.

Spread

The image macro with the colour-wheel background, first began to surface in June 2009. The nature of the situations in which the Foul Bachelor Frog image macros describe, which most people can relate to, has made it one of the most generated Advice Animal image macros, and the second most copied advice animal on memegenerator.net^[2].

Other advice animal generator sites such as QuickMeme^[3] and DIYLOL^[4] contain generators for Foul Bachelor Frog.

Foul Bachelor Frog gave inspiration for other related Advice Animal image macros such as Foul Bachelorette Frog

Judging by search volume alone, Foul Bachelor Frog’s popularity is comparable to that of some of the earliest advice animals. Part of this popularity is because it serves as a vehicle for sharing socially embarrassing behaviors that wouldn’t be shared if it wasn’t for anonymity. Many people may empathize with the behaviors finding it humorous that many others share the same experience.

Notable Examples

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