The Windows XP Frog Mystery…
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- I love you xp frog
This Windows XP profile pic friend has permeated my brain for 22 years, maybe not that long. but a while so today I set out to find him, and failed. sorry spoiler, I didnt find anything about this frog in the slightest, but I had a good time failing at least,
Thank you so much for watching and for still being here through these 2 months of no uploads, That will never happen again. If it does that means I'm tied up with chains and ropes and chains and you should call the police, in seriousness though thank you for still being here :3, Ill see you in the next one. Very very soon.
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0:00 WHAT MYSTERY?
2:19 Finding the What kind of Frog This is.
8:09 Finding THE XP Frog Picture.
10:32 Failure.
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Half Pipe - 1080° Snowboarding
SUPERBEAT: XONiC - Back Around
IDK, I CANNOT FIND THE NAME OF IT AGAIN IM SORRY!!!
Gallop Racer 2001 5 - So Far
Psychometrer Eiji - Till Dawn
(づ๑•ᴗ•๑)づ𓆏 ---- thats a frog 
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i enjoyed this video! although i don't really involve myself much in the windows scene nowadays, i am the person behind the windows aesthetics projects and i'm happy that my research and archival efforts continue to be appreciated for years to come. perhaps one day the answer to the question "who took frog?" will arise, even if it's buried deep in corporate archives
if anyone is curious what i'm up to nowadays, i am still involved with various preservation projects, especially related to music; i'm a trusted editor on vgmdb and have been cataloguing thousands of albums there. i myself am a musician, please consider checking out my work!
Thank you for everything you did for that Windows project, and for continuing to archive things. (By the way, fellow trans person. She/Her.)
Thank you for all you do Fusoxide good luck with your music and whatever else you may do :3 🎵🎶
@@princessCashel trans ppl trying not to day they're trans , lmao
Thank you
Hi btw :3
Even as a child I thought it was a rubber toy like a rubber duck. Never would have thought it was a plushie.
Agreed even the pixely microsoft picture reads as a rubber toy to me, even on the crappy crt moniters of the time.
sam
Same
I just thought it was 3D graphics or some other digital art. Low res enough and the tech certainly existed.
same
God damn, that "Chess image is the default dad profile picture" statement was crazy accurate 🎯
That was me as a kid
I grew up as an ultimate dad, my dad was a fish
I remember when my dad was setting up his then-new NEC laptop and the chess picture was automatically assigned by default.
It's the default administrator profile picture
i think even my dad had the chess image as his picture on Windows XP years ago, it's just the universal dad image now
Hey, I know where this is from! It is a bath toy! I had one when I was younger, before Windows XP even came out, so I assume the toy came before the profile pic. I got it from the dollar store. There were actually three of them that looked exactly like this, down to the exact coloring and paint, along with a large, flat, dishlike "mama" frog the three could ride on made of the same material. I have no idea the manufacturer or anything, but seeing as it was from the dollar store, it may have been produced in China or similar.
So I looked it up because that seemed like a searchable set I looked up "90s rubber frog bath set" and the link to an ebay listing "Vintage Simple Toys Green Frog Rubber Squeak Bath Tub Toy W/ Mini Frogs Floats" and that looks like The frog with a bigger one.
I think you might be on to something!
👀 so invested in this situation
Someone pin this comment! 😂
I thought of this toy too! And when I looked it up, the shape appears to be pretty darn similar. The only thing is that they don’t have the bumps on the back like the windows one does. I do definitely believe that this is where the Windows XP frog came from though. We just have to find the right set.
Oriental trading company might be able to dig something up depending on if they still have stuff from before their bankruptcy.
I think it's so awesome there's one guy out there who's dedicated a large portion of his time and effort to track down different windows XP profile pictures and setup a wiki for the wallpapers.
Your pfp though...
that's me :) i'm a gal, she/they. this was my big hobby during around 2018-20, but it's been on the backburner nowadays. i am involved with other preservation and research projects though, such as editing vgmdb and sometimes archiving ringtones.
@@fusoxide Nice to meet you! Hopefully the lil frog will be found eventually. I will look through some Polish thrift stores, maybe I can find it somewhere. Not any concentrated effort, I just like to browse thrift stores.
@@UltimatePerfection sounds fun, hehe. it is of course possible that it could have been used in books in the 90s and 2000s - and those usually include copyright/author acknowledgements for stock photos used. even bliss was found in a very old russian textbook for example
@@fusoxide The way I see it, if the frog pic is the picture of a real life object, it is out there somewhere. The real frog, I mean. So even if we can't find the original picture, we can at least find the frog.
very intrigued by the fact you thought it was a plushie- even at the very low res, its details look too smooth and painted to be a plushie
I'm tickled by the idea that a bunch of toy manufacturers might have been inspired by the design of a rubber frog used in a random Windows avatar.
It’s most likely that the frog existed prior to the Windows icon. Rather than being “inspired”
We gotta 3D model then print the XP Frog.
Froggy!
Froggy!
Froggy!
Froggy!
Froggy!
As a frog, I appreciate the effort and your interest
No problem, it’s an honour mr frog 🫡
Interesting that you thought it was a plush. I always thought it was a rubber frog like a rubber duck even when I was younger.
I’m pretty sure I used the frog when we were just using the default before I uploaded my own images. My brother was the skateboarder and mum was the gerbera (the flower) as it was actually her fave flower. I think my sister was the soccer ball considering she played at the time.
So Im not the only one!! He does look very much like a plush
@@bjiru_ You are still the only ne, that's not what they said lol
@@bjiru_manifesting ur own answer lmao
@@niamhsurtees9276let him manifest 🙏 🤲
@@bjiru_ Questioning your reading skills. lol
one thing that always gets me... when thinking about lost things... is that there are probably a bunch of these sitting in various stages of decomposition in a landfill somewhere.... like they're not gone.. just lost............ but still THERE...............
oh him? that's just Joe. he was head of HR at microsoft when I worked there back in '04. chill guy.
Hello i am from russia and I actually vaguely remember this frog from my childhood it is still on sale I used this phrase to search for it “лягушка игрушка резиновая для ванны” it translates to “frog toy rubber for bath” I added the for bath part because i vaguely remember that the frog was a bath toy . Also I can help with Russian to English translation if you need it.
hello it seems what the frog in question is similar but different sorry
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Shit, I also grew up in Russia, but I remember this userpic very well. But I never wanted one because there were frogs just like them in toy stores. I googled лягушка игрушка резиновая для ванны in the Yandex search engine and the first picture is almost the same frog, except for the back part painted dark green
Apparently they were made in Asia, using the same mold for casting
I still have my plushie frog I won from a Pizza Hut claw machine as a child. He is my prized possession and he has a cute little Christmas hat. Watching this video was very nostalgic for me. I hope you find your Froggy soon 🍀
Little internet searches like these are my favorite kind of content to watch on RUclips. It’s sooo interesting and fun to watch. It’s like watching a very niche piece of history unfold
i am kinda sad that those old windows xp aesthetics died out, i really liked them and i think they are really calming and nostalgic. feels like home i dont know how to explain it. sadly everything nowadays is really modern and simplified which looks okay too but i really miss the windows xp-7 era of things.
I know how you feel, Its deffinatly a lot of nostalgia, but I also do feel those aesthetics of aero glass or charming pixely things of XP genuinly had so much more personality then the flat design of more recent years past
The "Joseph.jpg" filename may indicate that either the frog, the creator of the frog, or the company is named "Joseph".
I have a feeling this was a toy that was mass-produced only in the '90s.
Probably the 2000's too, it would feel more fitting to the time period
Fun fact, the Chess image is actually the default profile picture. The administrator account uses it.
EASY LEGENDARY TIER I LOVE FROG!!!!!!!!!!🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
YOOOOOOOOOOO POLYGON DONUT
I WAS GONNA SAY I WAS JUMPING FOR JOY WHEN HR WAS PUT WHERE HE BELONGS!!
PONGON
omg is that the polynut
It's pongon omg!!! 🐸 🐸
There was always something charming in this frog and I also low-key wanted to obtain it and swim with it in a bath when I was four. Probably mainly because green's my fav colour and that shade in particular is my fav as well. Back when I had XP and I played solitaire I always played it just for the sake of seeing that frog again.
God bless you in your future searches
I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE ! ! !
thank you so much.
a forg...... used to talk to one back in the days
you talk to an green?
i love green it's my favorite color
@@mrluthfians01green is not a creative color
Froggy?
@@VreyIsGrey nu uh
I was in junior high in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 1990s. This exact squishy rubber frog was widely available as keychains from places like Claire's sometime between 1996 and 1999! The range may be a little narrower, but it was definitely within that span. Lots of kids at my school had them, and I had one too! Rubber ducks, frogs, etc were really on trend. I think it had something to do with the culture cycle of 1960s/70s 'hippie' aesthetics being quite popular. You could find lots of stuff with ~hippie aesthetics~ at places like the tween accessory store Claire's, Walmart, Target, Limited Too, such places.
You aren't the only one who loved this frog as a kid, I was very much in the same boat. Whenever I run a Windows XP virtual machine I always choose the frog profile picture as I once did oh so long ago. I also went on a small search a few months back, and while I did correctly assume he was a rubber frog toy and not a plush, I was never able to find anything regarding it either aside from the 2001 article you mentioned. Great job finding "Joseph", it is amazing to see this toy from another angle! I really do hope we can find the full resolution image some day.
Your hyperfixations are inspiring me to make videos of my hyperfixations
Big xp frog fan here, just a thought: could the rubber duck profile picture have been from the same photo shoot as xp frog? They both have the white background and are both rubber bath toys, perhaps if we could find the rubber duck photographer we could ask if they took the xp frog picture?
How is he so sure that the picture in the "wife sells frogs to save husband" article isn't the source of the XP profile picture? I say they look the same, especially when I notice the same direction of lighting in the pictures. You can just erase the background of the picture from the article in white to get the profile picture.
@@sqlexp It's the same picture, that is confirmed. The search is for the original high-resolution image that was taken with a professional camera similar to the rest of the images that have been found, as there is very likely no way that the original photo was that grainy.
As a Russian, I just wanted to say that this Russian article says that the woman had a collection of frogs, not ducks
It was for sale on the russian marketplace. It was released by russian brand "Курносики" (Interestingly, I was recently looking for a mug with a crocodile from my childhood, which was from the same company).
we love xp frog
Okay so, MJD/LGR content mixed with Scott the Woz humor/editing? I immediately love this channel!
It is very possible this was just a set of old bath toy moulds that came out, most of them would have been thrown away or damaged by now and if it was in the 90s not many images would exist, also companies share(steal) moulds and alter them he looks like a big one. My boyfriend remembers a toy with a similar and pose (definitely not the same one though look up specifically 1990s rubber frog bath toy) without bumps and finer details and we were born in 2001 with older siblings.
Edit: Other image of the big one being from Alamy makes me believe this may have never been for market and mass-production and was made specifically for stock and commercial images, he might be in a landfill, there may only have been one and they just painted him twice for all we know.
After watching this video I now care a lot about this frog and I need to know where he came from and who he is.
You probably wouldn't wanna hug the Windows XP frog, but you likely would wanna squeeze its cheeks to make it open and close its mouth and look excited.
when i was a kid my sisters and i had the xp frog that came with a set of pool or beach toys.
I am so happy about this frog still being relevant decades later.
Probably the best video
Everytime I become happy every time this dude says "Frog"
I mean any time, it makes me smile
I mean I just like the way he says it sometimes
:)
windows xp frog my beloved
Hey xephrou!
my dad has the motorcycle guy pfp, and the reason why i say has is because he has an ancient hotmail email and somehow the pfp synced over to modern outlook (no clue how thats even possible) so everytime he sends an email that pfp will show up
I'VE FOUND MORE ABOUT THE FROG. He's the part of Columbia University Image Library (COIL-100)
FINALLY AFTER 2 MONTHA SIDOIUFHEIUFHIOUHGIOURHIUGDOUIDFIOUVNDFUIOHNBPDF
YIPPIEEEEE
Your my fav youtuber! ✨
I know alot about 90s/early 00s nostalgia!
P.S I'd love to have a compition of our knowledge.
You found it???? Where is it
Where's the video
@@andrew08 No. He said "FINALLY AFTER 2 MONTHA" because it has been 2 months since his last video (the experimental phones one)
Lmao. That is hilarious.
Loved this video, love weird mysteries and old tech, love lost media, and that RUclips wheel joke was 💯. Subbing! ❤
A Michael MJD reference but everything goes right
I HAD THIS FROG TOY GROWING UP!!!! or at least one that looks extremely similar. it would light up and play music (i dont remember the music) and besides the electronics in it it was definitely made of rubber or something similar to bath toys from that time. i sadly don't remember anything more about him but knowing my family he might still be in a box somewhere in storage.
Where is the link to these frogs?
This feels like a video that polygon donut would make lol
Have you possibly reached out to the RUclipsr called TooMuchSlop? He uses the image of this very frog in a higher definition in his profile pic and many of his videos. It doesn't seem upscaled from the XP icon, as the spikes on the frog's body are clearly visible there.
I used to own this rubber frog as a kid. I lost it one day, sadly.
Absolutely deserved to be the first video at the top of my homepage as soon as i opened the app 🐸
The most prestigious lost media photo to ever exist
ngl, but before this video, I always thought that frog was made of rubber and had a hole on top, like, a hollow frog toy, good video...
Love the ever changing “plushie throne” int he background, now with a big ass turtwig and a big ass Wheatley with a Garfield on his head
I've seen that exact frog get sold on street shops in hong kong, it's a rubber toy
1:05 really appreciate the era specific versions of the websites. that old ebay interface takes me back and modern ebay doesn't have the same charm like before 😭
Frog was taken by Gabe Palmer, in December 1999, He may have the original in his personal portfolio.
Did you watch the video?
gabe remembers SHIT about the frog
Glad I got here early enough to become aware of the search for windows xp frog before this blows up and we find him lol
I'm not saying that this is what the frog is from, but the design of the frog looks similar to the designs of the frogs used in the board game "Froggles." Unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture of the game pieces online.
Hello! A quick search with Russian keywords helped me find that this exact frog rubber toy was released in Russia by Курносики brand, while originally it was manufactured by Zenith Infant Products from Tailand. Probably not a clue for this exact photograph info, but helps to know what exactly was this frog.
6:14 That is not the same frog, notice the pupils which are larger and moved upwards. This is a distant cousin.
in other words: it's a different copy of the same toy, rubber toys like this do tend to have slight differences between each one due to their relative cheapness in terms of production
@@yoymate6316 thanks! its klonoa from the game "klonoa: door to phantomile" :3
That is just simply how cheap production works. Cheap and quick paint application. It's a common thing amongst doll enthusiasts to find the doll with the best-printed face due to so many coming out a bit wonky. They can be missing certain layers or be printed with a tilt or a shift up/down/to the side. Something even cheaper like a bath frog is sure to be way more varied than that.
@@arekrekas213 so a less than distant cousin
@@Chromeno yeah, more like a brother/sister
Are you sure that frog is the same one? The pupils in the eyes in the XP icon/russian article do not touch the top of the eye, they are surrounded by white completely, while the one you found it seems the pupils extend to the eyelid. Also, the material seems different (the eyes are less shiny), the colour is darker and there don't seem to be lips in the XP icon like your find has. Admittedly that could all be due to lighting conditions, but I think the placement of the pupils is definitely different!
Come to think of it though, it's maybe possible that the one you found uses the same mould as the XP frog and was just painted and coloured differently, as I'm sure toy companies reuse or distribute the same moulds for slightly different products.
I swear to god I had this frog as a bathtub toy in like 2003
FROG!!! POG!!!!!!
One person's autistic journey in attempts to find *that one thing* that bears significance only for them, with no clues or context is honestly the rawest life experience. The rollercoaster of emotions that you feel on your way, from hope to despair, is hard to compare to anything else and I can relate to that a lot. I hope you and your frog friend will meet one day.
the editing style in this videos is great +1 subscriber
It’s very funny watching you try and find where this frog was from, because I had the exact same frog as a bath toy when I was younger. Bumps and everything!
Maybe the frog was owned and the picture taken by an in-house employee at Microsoft?
to me the frog looks more like playground equipment. like some big plastic thing kids would sit on or smth
I just wanted to say that in the thumbnail for Maya Winky's Lord Farquaad ASMR, she is holding a very similar frog. I haven't watched the whole video so I don't know if the frog is part of it, but it looks somewhat like Windows XP frog.
Different frog, judging by the mouth.
I legit found this frog on the street in my hometown, lying in the gutter
Please post him on youtube. Also, what country are you from?
I spent a lot of time on win xp as a kid and loved the bliss background. I actually ended up moving to santa rosa jus a short drive away from the location the photo was taken. I spent so much time looking at that mountain range as a kid and now I get to see it when I go outside.
I have some information that might help (IDK how, but it's related to the frog):
My grandpa has a picture of me as a kid, sitting on top of THIS EXACT FROG! The picture was taken some time between 2001 and 2003, so the dates match up. It was taken in a mall, in a store that specializes in taking professional photos of your kids. I'm 100% sure this store doesn't exist anymore (I think the mall is gone too). The frog seems to be a plaster statue with paint on top, and is ~1-1.5 ft tall. I can't remember exactly, but I think it has wheels tucked underneath, so that it can be moved around easily.
If it is the same frog, that means that the artist behind it has made multiple versions of it, possibly explaining the differences with the stock photo you found.
I don't have access to the photo right now, and I don't feel like asking any of my family members "hey, remember that picture of me sitting on the frog from over two decades ago? Can I have that so I can scan it and send it to a RUclipsr?"
I admire your level of obsession.
0:30 - Fun fact: if you look closer to the far side of the chessboard, you may notice the light reflection is blue, even though the bg is red... This is because it was originally blue, and MS decided to recolor it in one of the last builds.
Every time a stock photographer is contacted in regards to one of their photos, they always respond with short, curt, and brusque responses, almost as if they're annoyed at having been asked about _their_ product. If someone is contacting you to inquire about one of your products, don't you think you'd be a little bit nicer?
I loved this video!!!! Keep up the good work and I hope you have an amazing day :)
As a kid I collected and was obsessed with rubber ducks, and I always wanted that frog too because I could tell it was "squeezy" (aka, made of hollow soft plastic like a rubber duck) and I considered it (as well as the actual rubber duck image, ofc) as potential rubber duck collection material, though never got obsessed with him enough to really seek it out. I kinda forgot about this particular frog, but as soon as I saw the thumbnail I was immediately filled with the warm rush of nostalgia and excitement.
Crazy coincidence you uploaded this a couple days after the polygon donut video where they talk about this frog in it lol
I think it would be a good idea to contact collectors of rubber frogs
I always imagined the frog as a small plastic toy, like what you would get from a capsule toy vending machines, but I guess it might make sense as a bath toy. I also thought the shape was a little too definite even in low resolution to be a plushie, but now that you said it, I want one too
this was a great video lol I want xp frog now
It looks like some kind of prize you'd get from a claw machine when you were actually trying to get the knockoff Discman, so it's probably just some cheap ephemera that hasn't been manufactured in 25+ years from a factory in Asia that now makes bad iPhone clones. Unless there's another person wirh a rubber bathtoy collection, I'd say the chances of finding the original are minimal, but at least you got us one leap closer
I think your absolutely correct, finding the manufacturer is likely next to impossible
Fuck, i remember having this little fella and i remember it being almost identical to the one from Win XP! I need to call my dad now
Here's to this video getting a gazillion likes and millions and billions of views, until the guy who has this frog sees it.
Can confirm that my dad also had the chess image
Hey um, have you tried using toad instead of frog in your searches? The bumps on its back seem to indicate that it's a toad. I imagine it might make a little bit of difference if it was sold as a rubber toad
genius
The Windows XP source code has been leaked, maybe digging through it might help? Can't guarantee the original fullres image is there, but at least there could be some relevant metadata.
The chess image is indeed the default Dad image, its a core memory of mine with our windows xp.
I used that frog as an avatar as a kid!
I had an irl toy frog that looked like it, but it was a pink from with blue stripes. I don't have it anymore, but I got it from a party grab bag at a friend's birthday party. It had a rubbery texture and when you squeezed it, its roll tongue unrolled out like a partyblower.
I love it when I end up on this part of YT. It’s so comforting.
how did you mention a banger (michael mjds bliss video)
Frog design was the agency behind the logo of Windows XP, though not sure whether it's just a coincidence or if they are related to the frog image
If some officially produces this frog as a plushie, they are gonna make bank!
🤔
Dude this video is so cute hahaha now I'm interested in Frog!!
I have not seen any of your vids before but you have a plush of turtwig so you get my subscribble
So I can sew
The temptation to make a Frog plushie is very high xD
I'm sorry to bring this up but your accent is fascinating. You're like a chill millenial Dr Evil who doesn't care about megalomaniacal plot and just wants to tell people stories on RUclips instead.
My grandmother had these rubber frogs like rubber duckies and I remember playing with them for bath time when I was just a toddler. Cant remember if I ever asked where she got them, I had toddler things on my mind.
I got really excited seeing this video cause I have a rubber toy frog from when I was little that looks so similar! But unfortunately isn't the xp frog because it didn't have the bumps on its back
Hello! This video got my attention, because I’ve been interested in frog, because I know I’ve seen him in real life! I have a memory of feeling those bumps on his back. If you’d like I can give all the details I have.
This is the most entertaining video of a f*cking frog! 🤣🤣
0:04 are you play game
no.
Try searching in spanish
"Rana hule baño" (frog rubber bath) gave me some results that look almost identical, except that they have no warts in their back