# Small Fact Frog Small Fact Frog is an advice animal image macro built around a photo of a blue Uluguru forest treefrog paired with obscure trivia in the vein of Did You Know posts. What started as an August 2013 frog-pun joke on /r/AdviceAnimals picked up a name that November and then broke out in January 2014 with a run of factoid macros pulling five-figure Reddit upvote counts. ## Origin Dutch photographer Daan de Vos uploaded the source photo of a blue Uluguru forest treefrog to 500px on April 30, 2013[1]. The same day, the image hit /r/aww, where it pulled more than 4,300 upvotes[12]. On August 4, 2013, Redditor grizzlyunicorn posted the first image macro built on the photo to /r/AdviceAnimals, using a frog-related pun rather than a trivia caption[6]. The trivia framing arrived on November 6, 2013, when Redditor Vacuitymechanica posted a macro about mammoths outlasting the earliest pyramids[7]. That same day, Redditor CFS5300 posted a squirrel-planting-trees fact and titled the series "Small Fact Frog," giving the format its name and pulling over 13,800 upvotes before archival[5]. - **Platform:** Reddit (/r/AdviceAnimals) - **Creator:** grizzlyunicorn (first image macro); CFS5300 named the series - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview Each Small Fact Frog macro presents itself as a piece of trivia delivered by the tiny blue treefrog, and the joke works because the small, wide-eyed amphibian looks weirdly authoritative dropping biology footnotes and history oddities[1]. Captions cover animal behavior (male honey bees dying immediately after copulation, dolphins sleeping with half a brain awake), obscure terminology (the dot on a lowercase i being called a tittle), and evolutionary quirks like woolly mammoths still being alive when the Egyptian pyramids were built[2][3]. The template sits inside the advice animal tradition on /r/AdviceAnimals but is closer in spirit to Fun Fact Fox and /r/Awwducational, where a cute-animal photo carries the educational payload rather than a punchline[4]. The frog itself is Leptopelis ulugurensis, the Uluguru forest treefrog from East Africa, though early Reddit posters kept misidentifying it as a green tree frog missing its yellow pigment[11]. ## How to Use A Small Fact Frog macro typically drops a single little-known factoid onto the blue treefrog photo, often opening with "Small fact" or just stating the trivia in one or two lines. Common conventions favor animal-behavior oddities, etymological footnotes, and small historical surprises rather than long jokes or punchlines[3][4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Small Fact Frog? Small Fact Frog is an advice animal image macro featuring a blue Uluguru forest treefrog captioned with a short piece of little-known trivia[4]. ### Where did Small Fact Frog come from? The source photo was uploaded by Daan de Vos to 500px on April 30, 2013[1]; the first image macro was posted to /r/AdviceAnimals by Redditor grizzlyunicorn on August 4, 2013[6], and Redditor CFS5300 named the series "Small Fact Frog" on November 6, 2013[5]. ### What does Small Fact Frog mean? The macro plays the small treefrog as a deadpan trivia narrator, dropping obscure factoids about animal behavior, etymology, and history like the mammoth-pyramid overlap or the name of the dot on a lowercase i[7][2]. ### How do you use Small Fact Frog? A typical macro overlays a single short factoid on the treefrog photo, often opening with "Small fact" and favoring biology quirks or etymological trivia over jokes[3][9]. ### Is Small Fact Frog still popular? The format peaked on /r/AdviceAnimals across January 2014 with several 10,000-plus-upvote posts[3][2] and is still recognized as a classic Reddit advice animal, though the wave of new macros fell off after that run[4]. ## References 1. [https://500px.com/photo/32589565?from=popular]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1upmam/small_fact_frog_with_a_tiny_fact/]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1v1bx8/small_fact_frog/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/small-fact-frog]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1q2nrd/saw_an_earlier_post_with_this_template_small_fact/]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1jobym/whachu_say_frog/]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1q31ur/was_surprisingly_happy_when_i_found_this_out/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1v3xxr/small_fact_frog/]() 9. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1v44yl/small_fact_frog/]() 10. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1cq8yw/introducing_fun_fact_fox_oc/]() 11. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1v5mir/i_got_curious_about_small_fact_frogs_origin_story/]() 12. [https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/1dfovz/cutest_frog_in_town/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/small-fact-frog Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library