The Onion’s InfoWars Site Is Selling Plushies That Are Turning the Frickin’ Frogs Gay

For some reason, even my most offline friends seem to have heard the viral clip of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones shouting about the chemicals in our water supply that are making the frogs gay. The claim, most memorably made in a 2015 broadcast on his show InfoWars, is of course misleading: The herbicide atrazine doesn’t so much turn frogs gay as it does forcibly feminize them, and there’s no reason to believe it affects humans in the same way as it does amphibians, as PolitiFact noted. But just because this is a classic case of homophobic fearmongering doesn’t make it any less funny. For over a decade now, people have been joking about H20 “turning the friggin’ frogs gay!”And now, thanks to The Onion’s ongoing attempt to acquire InfoWars — which has so far included the production of a fully fledged parody show while litigation around the purchase continues to play out — you can get a gay frog shipped to your home. On Tuesday, the InfoWars parody channel revealed its latest merch: a gay frog plushie billed as the “perfect companion to almost every situation.” At the risk of editorializing, the gay frog is super cute and wears an adorable little neckerchief featuring the InfoWars logo in glorious Pride colors. I can indeed think of so many situations that would be made better by his gay company!They turned the friggin' frogs gay. Buy one now at store.theonion.com.[image or embed]— InfoWars (@realinfowars.bsky.social) August 4, 2026 at 1:37 PMIn July of this year, The Onion CEO Ben Collins told the Associated Press that the company would be sending $100,000 in merchandise sales to the families of victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. Jones, who infamously claimed that the shooting was a hoax, was forced to sell InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction after losing a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit filed by those families. The Onion won that auction in 2024, but after a federal judge blocked the bid, the purchase has hit legal and p