Frank Frank Frank, who is Frank?

Written by: 0x21, BlockBeats

On April 7th, a video of a polar bear walking went crazy in major NFT communities Spread the word, some of these polar bears have Cyclops, some wear Nouns glasses representing the unique characteristics of Web3, there are also cowboys, police, and some common elements in our lives. It is this seemingly "magic" Meme-like NFT, and the current price has reached about 0.7ETH. It's called Frank, they're taking social platforms like Twitter and Discord today, and we're all Frank today.

In fact, Frank is not the real name of this polar bear, and its popularity definitely did not start today.

Frank Frank NFT's official twitter said, "If you are looking at the text of this image, then it proves that you have basically been in a coma for 20 years, we are Try a new technology, we don't know where this message will end up in your dreams, but we hope we can get through this together with you."

The classic plot that will be used in countless science fiction novels to tell that if you know this polar bear, it means that you are old enough. It seems nonsensical, but this polar bear has really been around for more than 20 years, 25 years to be exact.

This Gif of a polar bear first appeared on a website called Bear-Tracker.com, which was created by Kim A. Cabrera in 1997 Founded in 2011 by a fan of tracking animal tracks and information, he also started the site to share information about North American animal tracks, especially bear tracks. It also contains some tips, such as "Where to find footprints?", "How to track animal footprints when they are found?", "Encyclopedia of Animal Footprints" and so on.

As the page slides down, we see today's protagonist "Frank". Some netizens said that when the website was established in 1997, this Gif of a polar bear walking had already appeared at the bottom of the website, and it has been 25 years since then.

Since then, this polar bear has become a common Meme in various chat rooms and forums. In August 2016, shortly after the release of "Pokémon: Super Mystery Dungeon", players needed to play different Pokémon to wear in the dungeon. A Youtuber named GraysonM2001 discovered the Pokémon pace of polar bear Frank and reptiles. It was surprisingly consistent, so he posted a walking video of Frank the polar bear on Youtube, accompanied by Pokémon background music, and the video received thousands of views. Since then, the video of Frank the polar bear walking has been used as material in many popular videos.

On October 1, 2017, a Youtuber named Savage Doggo uploaded a video titled "10 Hours of Walking Polar Bear". As the title narrates, the Gif animation of Frank the polar bear is accompanied by a witty episode from the Japanese manga "Cowboy Bebop", which is played in a loop for 10 hours.

That's how "magic" videos have been played on Youtube for more than 6 million times in a few years, with more than 220,000 likes. The bottom of the video is full of "serious" comments.

"Every 30 minutes I pause so the polar bears can rest"

"I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like this video, the title is Polar Bear Walk 10 Hours, the video is the full 10 hours"

"These were the happiest 10 hours of my life"

Polar bear walking has become a "philosophy". Everyone began to look for the deeper meaning behind his walking. Some people said goodbye to polar bears when the video reached 9 minutes and 59 seconds. No matter how far you go, some people wonder why polar bears have to go so far, so everyone's love for polar bears is not just as simple as meme.

In 2018, AutisticYui collaborated with several Meme video producers including DitzyFlama, PatPat.mp4, StickFab, Parkas and KobayashisEgo to produce the video "Bears, of The Collab Variety 2018". In the video, the polar bear puts on the equipment and puts on the background. Like Zelda, he embarks on a thrilling adventure. After many trials and tribulations, he finally succeeds.

In the 5-minute "shoddy" Meme animation, the creators added Hollywood-style ups and downs in the plot, and the polar bear who played the "hero" met Dangerous, several failures, a new rise, the hero's return, in the end it is just a dream story.

The video "Bears, of The Collab Variety 2018" is also the first time a polar bear "wears" props and has a story. There are also more and more different images of polar bears appearing. Just a few months after the video was released, Reddit netizen HMeindert posted two pictures of polar bears, one with the text: "I am running away from the police, the police ask you please don't tell them I am hiding here." The other Caption: "I'm hunting a fugitive, let me know if you see one."

As soon as HMeindert's post was published, there was an upsurge in the role-playing of polar bears in the Reddit forum. Full of ideas. More and more polar bears wearing various props appeared.

Each polar bear with a different image represents a different short story. Some of them are policemen, some are lawyers, and they hide in every corner of the world. Polar bears have different understanding and creativity.

A total of 2,000 Frank Frank NFTs are also derived from this, and we can see that the familiar image of the police is still mixed in. The polar bear has changed from an inconspicuous GIF at the bottom of a website to a Meme popular on social networking sites, and now it finally has its own name, Frank.

What it has experienced is the history of evolution from Web1.0 to Web3.0. It was born in the Internet era for display only. It is dense information Under the humble decoration. He became popular because of Web2.0, and there is no obstacle between people, because an accident made it onto the global stage. Now people say, we are all Frank, the era of Web3.0 is not only because it becomes NFT, and it is expensive. Rather, Frank represents the man behind it, who owns the story of the past and will soon own the story of the future.

In the Frank Frank NFT series, we see that many polar bears walk at different speeds and frequencies, just like someone in "10 Hours of Walking Polar Bear" In the video, I always feel that it is going too slowly, but now he is getting up quickly.

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