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The Frog In Tom Holland's Mouth refers to a joke theory spread through Tumblr that english actor Tom Holland, best known for playing Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Homecoming, looks like he is hiding a frog in his mouth and he can't open his mouth or else it will escape.

Origin

On July 27th, Tumblr user opossume^[1] wrote a text post that read:

ok tom holland is cute and all but he constantly looks like he’s hiding a frog in his mouth and it’s uncomfortably hopping around in there but he can’t open his mouth or the frogs gonna escape

A few minutes after that post, user fruitmeats^[2] added several photos of Holland to opossume's post to demonstrate what she meant. The post has gained over 106,000 notes (shown below).

Spread

The popularity of the post led to the joke to spread through Tumblr over the course of the following days, as users made text posts and image macros playing off the idea. Several inside jokes have developed as part of this theory. For example, a common thread in the jokes is that the frog is named "Dave" (example shown below, left). Others play off a theory that the frog in Holland's mouth is actor Tobey Maguire, who played Spider-Man in the original 2002 film (shown below, right). That theory stems from a piece of trivia^[3] that James Franco, who played Harry Osborne in the film, compared Maguire's looks to that of a frog on set for the film.

While many have taken the jokes in good humor, other Tumblr users have criticized the meme for making fun of one's appearance, especially in light of Holland being bullied for his looks in the past (examples shown below). The meme was documented by memedocumentation^[4] on August 1st, 2017.

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