Is Kermit the perfect meme star? In 2014, a picture of the frog sipping tea, dubbed “But that’s none of my business,” was used as a passive-aggressive retort; the meme saw a brief resurgence after the #tealizard gaffe earlier this year. Now, Kermit is back in the form of Evil Kermit.
Evil Kermit plays off of a still taken from the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, in which pure and wholesome Kermit is chatting with his sinister doppelgänger, Constantine. In this meme’s case, Kermit and Constantine are a stand-in for our socially acceptable selves warring with our asshole instincts.
Twitter user @aaannnnyyyyaaaa is credited with kicking off the Evil Kermit trend on November 6th with this tweet:
me: sees a fluffy dog
me to me: steal him pic.twitter.com/XuJFCBi7st— dried apricot hater (@aaannnnyyyyaaaa) November 6, 2016
The tweet itself has gathered more than 23,000 retweets and 32,000 likes, and was created by @aaannnnyyyyaaaa, a 19-year-old student named Anya Sudarkina.