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If you're looking to download the crazy frog ringtone or wallpaper for your mobile phone, click here for a special offer
On the other hand, if you're just interested in, or irritated by, the crazy frog fever, where it came from and why it lives on long after many people think it should have died, pull up a chair!
My guess would be that, in due course, the whole crazy frog phenomenon will become a case-study for marketing students and the subject of many an MBA thesis. |
A brief history of the Crazy Frog |
The original sound is believed to have been 'invented' by a young man from Sweden called Daniel Malmedahl who, in 1997 recorded himself imitating the sound of a scooter.
Whether by accident or design, the sound 'escaped' onto the internet where it lived in relative obscurity for several years, occasionally being revived and put to other uses.
Among those other uses was as the sound of a racing car and as part of a light-hearted sanity test!
Had it ended there, all might have been well but, never ones to leave well enough alone, another Swede called Erik Wernquist
in 2003 drew a frog character to go with the sound. Why? I guess only Erik knows the answer to that.
Even then, all might have been well had not Jamster (or Jamba) spotted the potential for the weird and wacky sound and character to be marketed as a ringtone.
That was the beginning of the end for those who believe a phone should sound like a phone, not a scooter, much less a frog riding a scooter while fleeing from a terminator-type baddie!
Since then, the sound in its various forms and the character have lodged themselves firmly at the top of the mobile content bestseller charts, assisted by saturation advertising in broadcast and print media.
No doubt, one day the current generation will look back at the madness of their youth and wonder how it all happened - much as an older generation looks back at Woodstock, pet rocks or Cabbage Patch Dolls and wonder what collective madness fuelled such an unlikely fever in so many apparently sane people! |
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