Hopkin Green Frog is an Internet phenomenon accessible at [http://lostfrog.org Lostfrog.org], consisting of 120 images.

The Hopkin Green Frog site was started by an unknown individual or individuals who may or may not have acted in concert. The first image is of a letter with a picture of a frog and grammatically incorrect information that it was lost, written in what appears to be a child s script.

The letter states:

If I looking for frog him name is hopkin green frog (two bad drawings of the frog, one from the front and the other drawn laterally) I lost my frog 29-3228 Love, Terry P.S. I ll find my frog Who took my frog Who found my frog (faded, as though partially rubbed out) 2012 15th Ave. S.

Clicking on the image leads to the next one. The following images are fully doctored and involve images of the frog pictures and/or snippets of text from Terry s letter, pasted onto various pictures, from World War II propaganda posters to television news footage to photographs of aircraft carriers as well as eBay stills. The final image is a seemingly undoctored image of an actual frog, which may or may not be the true Hopkin Green Frog.

The author is widely thought to be an individual named Terry Chen, although due to the anonymous nature of the Internet, it may not be Terry at all, or perhaps Terry Chen is a mere pseudonym.

An alleged explanation of the origin of the phenomenon is available at [http://mike.whybark.com/archives/001951.html Explaination of Hopkin Green Frog at whybark.com]. Apparently, Terry Chen was an autistic 16-year-old who had lost his own toy frog and took it upon himself to write a note to the outside world declaring the search for his frog. The nature of autism signifies that if true, the story of Hopkin Green Frog is quite amazing.

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