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Crazy Frog

A blue animated frog with a motorcycle and an exposed absence of trousers, built in 2003 around a Swedish teenager's 1997 impression of a two-stroke engine, sold as a ringtone in 2005 until it topped the UK charts and was hated by a whole country. Returned to YouTube in December 2020 to a warmer reception. The record's entry for the ringtone that got a comeback.

Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
Overexposure
First sighting
'The Annoying Thing', 2003; Erik Wernquist's animation of Daniel Malmedahl's 1997 engine impression
Life & death · 2002–2027
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PEAK 2005
BORN · 2003
DIED · 2009
REVIVED · December 2020
NOW · 2026

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Obituary @lowbattery_lou · Digger 22 Nov 2022

First death recorded 2009: overexposure. It came back changed, which is the record's definition of undead, and it has not been trustworthy since.

Correction @wayback_wanda · Archivist 26 Apr 2009

The record notes that the noise came first, in 1997, on a Swedish website; the frog second, in 2003; and the ringtone advert third, on every channel, in 2005. The order matters to nobody but the record.

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