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Unknown Number Starts Sending This Guy Toad Pics Without Any Context, Hilarity Ensues
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Unknown Number Starts Sending This Guy Toad Pics Without Any Context, Hilarity Ensues

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When your phone beeps and there’s a random number that wants to connect, you either go into fight or flight mode and block the person or go with the flow and see what happens. Sometimes it’s super annoying, rarely it’s exciting, and often it’s just plain freaky. Except when the random number starts sending you pictures of toads. “Why toads?” you ask.

Well, it seems like the Twitter user who became a target of a toad-obsessed number didn’t have a clue either. “Earlier this year a random number I don’t recognize started sending me pictures of toads,” he tweeted along with the hilarious gallery of screenshots.

From a red American toadlet to a European common spadefoot toad, it seems like whoever was sending these was really into the leathery amphibian creatures. The thread went viral, amassing 560.8K likes and 118.6K retweets, and people joined in to share their explanations in this bizarre and funny toad conspiracy.

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    Bored Panda reached out to the Twitter user @grain_death who became the target of a toad newsletter he didn’t sign up for. @grain_death told us that at first, he was like “‘oh, weird, ok’ and I didn’t think about it too much.”

    He explained that the very first toad text he received is the first one in the screenshots that he posted on Twitter. “I’m used to silly things happening so I just went with it,” he said.

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    And here are the hilarious screenshots he posted

    It turns out, @grain_death still has no idea why he’s been receiving the toad pictures. “They also don’t really seem to know who I am either. All we both need to know is we only talk about frogs and toads,” he explained.

    He also said that he’s never been genuinely annoyed by these texts and assured us that his weird “toad pal is the best.”

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    Incredibly, the toad newsletter still texts him once a week, “so it never really gets old.” If @grain_death had to guess why whoever is sending the toad pictures has been doing so consistently, he’d say “they enjoy this as much as I do.”

    “If I was the kind of person to send pictures to random numbers, I’d enjoy it if someone responded positively and consistently,” he concluded.

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    People on Twitter loved it so much they even said they’d be up for the toad feed too

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    Liucija Adomaite

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    Liucija Adomaite

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    Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

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    Ilona Baliūnaitė

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    I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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    Ilona Baliūnaitė

    Ilona Baliūnaitė

    Author, BoredPanda staff

    I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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    GirlFriday
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the anonymous texts that I get are d**k pics. This is much better.

    Little Zoologist
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This can be annoying for someone, but I think it is also cute! I love toads and if someone starts to send me toad pics, uh do u know... I would scare and block😅 but this man didn't and it became funnier.😁

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    GirlFriday
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the anonymous texts that I get are d**k pics. This is much better.

    Little Zoologist
    Community Member
    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This can be annoying for someone, but I think it is also cute! I love toads and if someone starts to send me toad pics, uh do u know... I would scare and block😅 but this man didn't and it became funnier.😁

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