The frog in question was Dat Boi, a primitively computer-animated frog on a unicycle who was suddenly riding unbidden into everyone’s timeline, and with no evident agenda. Wherever Dat Boi came from, ...

Obviously, I first saw the signs during the height of Dat Boi. “There are a lot of memes about frogs, huh?” I asked my editor. “That’s a thing, right?” He said I was the fourth writer to point that ...