The internet has been making frog jokes for as long as the internet has existed, and Yahoo has now gathered 25 of the best frog memes into one place, which is the kind of low-stakes archive I fully endorse. It's frogs sitting in odd positions. It's frogs looking judgmental. It's frogs photographed mid-expression, caught somewhere between serenity and a private crisis.

What gets me about frog memes, and why I ended up reading this list at 1 AM instead of just scrolling past, is that frogs don't really need the meme treatment. They come pre-memed. Spend any time around frogs, or even just photographs of them, and you start to notice the humor isn't something we're imposing on these animals. The gap between how a frog looks and whatever a frog is actually thinking about, which is probably a fly, is where basically all of this comedy lives. You don't have to work hard for it. The frog is doing the setup and the punchline at the same time and has no idea either one exists.

The memes work because the face helps. That wide, unbothered, vaguely disappointed expression is a perfect blank canvas. You can project anything onto a frog: existential dread, quiet judgment, the feeling of realizing it's Sunday night. The frog absorbs it all. Cats did a lot of heavy lifting in the early days of online animal content, but a frog brings a layer of amphibian indifference that a cat, an animal that will knock a glass off a table to watch you react, arguably can't match. A frog doesn't know you exist. A frog is thinking about a fly.

And the collection itself is fine in the way these collections are always fine. A few you've seen. A few that genuinely land. One or two made me laugh out loud in a quiet room, which is the highest compliment I can pay a JPEG of an amphibian. The genre is unkillable and I suspect that's because the subject is unkillable too, at least in the meme sense. No matter how many times the internet declares the frog meme over, it thaws out and hops back into your feed like nothing happened. Neither one dies no matter how many times you pronounce it dead.

Go look at the list. Pick a favorite. Mine is whichever one looks like it just realized it left the stove on, because somewhere out there right now a real frog is making something close to that exact face for reasons of its own.