Written by: 0x21, BlockBeats

On April 7th, a video of a polar bear walking crazily spread in major NFT communities. Some common elements in our life. 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 says, "If you're looking at the text of this image, it proves that you've basically been in a coma for 20 years, we're trying a new technology, we didn't know this message would end up in your dreams Somewhere in it, but we hope we can get through it with you together."

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

This polar bear gif first appeared on a website called Bear-Tracker.com, which was founded in 1997 by Kim A. Cabrera, 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". A witty interlude from the comic "Cowboy Bebop," on a 10-hour loop.

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 take a break so the polar bears can rest for a while"

"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 at 9 minutes and 59 seconds in the video. Some people explored how far polar bears can go in 10 hours. After going so far, 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 for 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 a Hollywood-style ups and downs. The polar bear who played the "hero" encountered danger, failed several times, rose again, and the hero returned. In the end, it was just a dream s 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 posted, there was a craze about polar bear role-playing in the Reddit forum. Some people made up scenes for them based on the story of the escaped polar bear and extended them. It can be said to be full of imagination. 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 and some are lawyers. They hide in every corner of the world, and they also represent everyone's different understanding and creativity of polar bears.

The Frank Frank NFT with a total of 2,000 is also derived from this, and we see that the familiar police image 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, and it is an inconspicuous decoration under dense information. 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 the "10 Hours of Walking Polar Bear" video always felt that it was walking too slowly, and now he is getting up faster.