Before the internet had Pepe, Sweden had Skurt.
Born on Sweden's children's TV show Barntrean in 1988, Skurt became a familiar face to Swedish kids long before internet frogs took over the world. Now he's been dug out of the archive tapes — and put on-chain.
A green character who lived inside Swedish children's television, quietly, for decades — until someone remembered him.
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Long before internet culture turned frogs into billion-dollar memes, this gree frog was already living inside people's televisions. nobody was looking. we were.
Long before Pepe, Sweden had a green frog of its own — sitting quietly in the archives, waiting to be found.
A green toad from Swedish television who appeared decades before Pepe the frog.
We've been told Pepe was the beginning.
We don't believe them.
He was just waiting for the internet to remember him.