Memefrog, How Did You Get So Based?

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Memefrog, How Did You Get So Based?, also known as It's Been 35 Years Nigga Let It Go 💀💀💀, refers to a two-panel Wojak comic originally shared by Instagram user @memefrog9k in 2022, which shows a Doomer asking Memefrog's Pepe the Frog avatar (seen wearing a camo hat and skull balaclava), "Memefrog, how did you get so based?" The bottom panel shows a young Memefrog in 1987 getting bullied by Black guy Wojaks who tell him, "Ayo, gibs me your lunch money whytboi!" and, "You read books? Dats stupid. You stupid." The Memefrog Wojak comic went viral months later when someone screenshotted it and added a top caption reading, "It's been 35 years nigga let it go 💀💀💀." The comic was mocked going into the mid-2020s and used as an example of racist right-wingers being cringe. Discourse and memes about it largely surfaced on Twitter / X.

Origin

On November 4th, 2022, a since-deleted Redditor^[1] shared a screenshot to /r/shitfascistssay that showed a Wojak comic posted by an Instagram user named @memefrog9k. The two-panel comic showed a Doomer Wojak in 2022 asking Memefrog's Pepe the Frog avatar, "Memefrog, how did you get so based?" The second panel showed Black male Wojaks in 1987 bullying Memefrog's younger self at a playground, telling him, "Ayo, gibs me your lunch money whytboi!" and, "You read books? Dats stupid. You stupid."

Per the screenshot, the Instagram post had received over 420 likes (shown below). The Reddit post received over 490 upvotes in two years. As of August 2024, @memefrog9k is no longer active on Instagram. The page was also not archived on the Internet Archive.

Spread

On July 27th, 2023, X^[2] user @goonerarmpits shared the Memefrog comic with an added top caption that read, "It's been 35 years nigga let it go 💀💀💀." In a year, the post amassed over 10,000 likes (shown below). It's unknown who the original creator of the meme is, as earlier non-viral reposts of it were shared on X^[3] a day prior.

On July 28th, X^[4] user @upblissed reposted the abovementioned meme, gaining over 19,000 likes in a year.

On November 30th, 2023, X^[5] user @SonyWalkmanMS7 shared an exploited version of the comic, showing the Bite of '87 from Five Nights at Freddy's, receiving over 1,700 likes in 10 months (shown below).

The meme resurfaced in 2024 following a post by X^[6] user @CrispyFrise on January 4th, 2024, who used the Memefrog comic to portray their memory of someone "saying the reason they hate black people so much was because a group of black friends were mean to them in high school and I'm just like." Over seven months, the post amassed roughly 30,000 likes (shown below).

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