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How best to greet a unicycling frog? Our regular column examines the unruly rules of internet etiquette
Dat Boi
As the American writer EB White famously put it: "Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog -- few people are interested and the frog dies of it." In tribute, the first proverbial amphibian to be dismembered for nobody's benefit this month is, in fact, a literal one. The Dat Boi meme, which has enjoyed a rapid rise to internet ubiquity in recent weeks, is a graphic of a frog on a unicycle accompanied simply by the call "Here come Dat Boi!!!!!!" and the response "O shit waddup!".
So those are Dat Boi's constituent parts, but what are the reasons behind his omnipresence? New York magazine summed up the joke in the following way: "The frog does not look like the kind of person you'd call 'Dat Boi.' He's a frog, and he's on a unicycle. And yet, his relaxed demeanor projects the kind of imperturbable mellowness you would expect in someone called Dat Boi." Other possible factors behind the meme's appeal is its endearingly low-res appearance, and the...