Picture above is an example of meme, or it can be said as "dank" meme. This meme, "Dat Boi", show a 3D frog riding on a unicycle with a caption said "here come dat boi!!!!!! o shit waddup!" which is utterly nonsense. This utterly nonsense somehow turn into an internet hit even thought it's meaningless. But how is it got this far?
It all happened in July 2014, FunnyJunk, a content aggregator website, posted a photoshopped image of a young boy named "Dat Boi" as the "most wanted criminal arrested" as "dat boi" (Know Your Meme, 2016).
While in June 2015, phalania, a Tumblr user, submitted a post with a message "here come dat boi!!", followed up by a picture of Pac-Man with caption "o shit waddup" which shown the picture way above (Know Your Meme, 2016).
Finally on April 2016, "Fresh Memes About the Mojave Desert and Other Delectable Cuisines", a Facebook group, posted an image of the frog riding a unicycle with the caption of "here come dat boi!!!!! o shit whaddup" (Know Your Meme, 2016).
From there onwards, this "dat boi" meme spreads like haywire. Users kept manipulating this meme into many kind of style.
Bibliography:
Know Your Meme, 2016. Dat Boi. Available at: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dat-boi [Accessed November 27, 2016]
The Daily Dot, 2016. Say 'waddup' to dat boi, the unicycling frog meme. Available at: http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/dat-boi-frog-unicycle-meme/ [Accessed November 27, 2016]
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