Excerpt from the article:
In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.”
On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral.
Last month, Birds Aren’t Real adherents even protested outside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco to demand that the company change its bird logo.
The events were all connected by a Gen Z-fueled conspiracy theory, which posits that birds don’t exist and are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans. Hundreds of thousands of young people have joined the movement, wearing Birds Aren’t Real T-shirts, swarming rallies and spreading the slogan.
It might smack of QAnon, the conspiracy theory that the world is controlled by an elite cabal of child-trafficking Democrats. Except that the creator of Birds Aren’t Real and the movement’s followers are in on a joke: They know that birds are, in fact, real and that their theory is made up(...)
A Birds Aren’t Real billboard in Memphis in July.
6 comments:
It's hilarious. Backlash for all the ! bullshit. Ya gotta love it!
Pat: I knew there had to be something nice and fun in this Z generation :-)
IF birds aren't REAL well I can say that their SHIT on my car ARE REAL.
All that none sens seems like USA today where any weirdo can say anything and other weirdos will believe them.
It wouldn't surprise me if some idiots don't realize it's a joke.
JiEL: Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi. Chaque jour semble apporter un nouveau lot d'insanités d'outre-Atlantique (I mean from the U.S. and those who are supposed to rule them).
P.S.: Je suis positivement touché qu'un Québecquois prenne le temps de commenter un de mes posts ici et là :-)
@Rick: I've had my doubts and mixed feelings when I saw something about this pop up a few months ago. Which only means I must only be half an idiot, and in these times that's kind of a relief. LoL!
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