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It’s really funny how the green frog🐸 has gone viral on the internet, in fact, there is hardly any meme lover who doesn’t have one with the frog who most of us know as ‘comrade’, I’m laughing hard typing this. Well it’s really getting out of hand, majority of my WhatsApp stickers feature our ‘comrade’ and the funny thing is there are quite enough stickers available for any message you would like to convey. If you ask me, I would tell you that memes and stickers are now becoming preferable to emojis.

But how did our comrade become so popular overnight, who’s the creator of this frog character?

Well we’re about to give answers. Just sit tight, relax as we begin the gist.

I recently decided to trace the origin of our comrade only to find out his real name is Pepe the frog. He became an internet meme when his popularity grew across different social media like Myspace, Gaia online and 4chan in 2008. On 4chan, various illustrations of the frog creature have been used as reaction faces, including Feels Good Man, Sad Frog, Angry Pepe, Smug Frog and Well Meme’d. By 2015, he had become one of the most popular memes used on 4chan and Tumblr.

Pepe the frog was created by an American artist and cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005. It gained it’s meme usage from his comic Boy’s Club #1. The comic featured Pepe, Brett, Andy and Landwolf. He shared his comic in a series of posts on Myspace in 2005.

In 2014, some images of Pepe were shared on social media by celebrities like Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. When Pepe became popular, 4chan users started referring to the particularly unique version of the sticker as “Rare Pepes”. In 2015, Pepe was number 6 on Daily News and Analysis list of the most popular and important meme on Twitter.

Pepe stickers can now be seen on WhatsApp since the creation of sticker makers. They come in handy especially in expressing feeling or thought without having to type or engage in any verbal communication (of course a picture is worth a thousand words, lol).

Thanks for reading through, we hope you enjoyed the read.

We know you have at least 6 different types of comrade sticker on your WhatsApp favourite list. Comment down below your favourite sticker with a picture of it.