My cousin sent me a picture of a frog with a tiny cowboy hat and the caption 'yeehaw'

I saw it on Tuesday and spent the next two days trying to figure out what it meant, until someone on a different forum explained it's from a video game called 'Battletoads'. Apparently, there's a whole joke about frogs and cowboy culture that I completely missed. Has anyone else run into a meme that made zero sense until you found the original source?

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pat_coleman1mo ago

Wait, what's the actual Battletoads joke, though?

jana1191mo ago

Oh man, I feel that confusion so hard.

pat_coleman24d ago

Wait, you know what, I used to think the joke was just about the game being brutally hard. But then someone explained it's actually a reference to how the game taunts you with impossible levels right when you think you're making progress. That totally changed my mind about it being a lazy meme. It's honestly way funnier knowing the developers were just trolling everyone on purpose.