In the Dat Boi meme, what is the frog riding?

In the Dat Boi meme, the frog is riding a unicycle.

Dat Boi is usually depicted as a green frog traveling on a single-wheeled cycle, often accompanied by the deliberately misspelled greeting “here come dat boi” and the response “o shit waddup!” The image’s strange, simple visual joke helped it spread as a reaction meme.

The frog animation did not begin as a purpose-built meme. It came from Animation Factory, a clip-art website, and was reportedly created by designer Josh Doohen. Tumblr users helped popularize the image in 2015, and it reached a much broader audience through Twitter in 2016.

The single wheel is the key identifying detail. A bicycle has two wheels, while a scooter and skateboard do not match the original image at all. Dat Boi is therefore not simply a frog on a vehicle; the unicycle is part of the meme’s recognizable design. The phrase attached to it came from earlier internet joke formats, including material connected with “Here Comes Pac-Man.”