[tailrecursion]

4chan is world famous for hoaxing the left by cooperating with their need to find white supremacy everywhere. The black square, the OK sign, pepe, and many other symbols and memes are examples where 4chan inserted the assertion that XYZ is associated with <the bad people> into the left's hive mind.

The intent is to ridicule the left by having dupes get up in front of everyone and claim that a frog is a <the bad people> hate symbol, or that posting a square of black pixels demonstrates solidarity with anti-racism.

OR, that's what they want us to think, and the truth is that systematic countless postings of a frog is the precursor to <the bad people> world domination.

[stonogo]

4chan has pulled some truly impressive hoaxes, but they are also adept at creating these dog whistles. /r/frenworld was a master class in riding the line between dog whistle and obvious hate speech. Eventually it got banned and the users just moved to /r/honkler and took a lot of the vocabulary with then.

Regardless of what one might think the "correct interpretation" of the cartoon frog might be, actual real-world unapologetic white supremacists have associated themselves with that specific cartoon frog on national television, so the matter isn't limited to some bored pranksters on an image board.