Saw a meme about a frog holding a tiny sword, caption was 'he is doing his best'. What's the deal?

It popped up in my feed three times yesterday. It's just a picture of a frog with a photoshopped little sword, and that's the whole text. My buddy said it's from some old video game, but another friend insists it's about feeling small but trying hard. I looked for about 20 minutes and found a bunch of different frog memes, but not the origin of this one. Has anyone actually seen where this specific frog knight thing started? I feel like I'm missing a whole layer of the joke.

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miles7216d ago

Honestly the search for meme origins is a modern day quest with no real prize. You spend an hour digging and the answer is usually just "some guy on 4chan in 2012". The frog with a sword is probably just that, and now I feel like I need a tiny sword too.

anderson.david9d ago

What if the digging is the actual prize though? @adamgreen said it leaves you with weird knowledge. That's the point. Knowing some random person made a frog with a sword for no reason is a better story than some corporate ad. The search makes the meme mean more, not less. You end up with a connection to the weird little corner of the internet it came from. That's a better trophy than a tiny sword.

adamgreen16d ago

Right? It's like digital archaeology with no payoff. I once went down a rabbit hole trying to find the first "this is fine" dog. The trail just ended on some forgotten art blog from 2008. You're left with a weird knowledge and nothing to show for it. The tiny sword feeling is the only real trophy.