About

Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory claiming that birds are mechanized surveillance drones disguised as living organisms.

Origin

On March 27th, 2017, the domain BirdsArentReal.com^[1] was registered, which describes itself as a "movement" to spread awareness that birds are not living organisms.

Spread

In August 2017, the @birdsarentreal^[4] Twitter account was created. On October 19th, the Birds Aren't Real YouTube channel uploaded footage of a demonstrator holding a "Birds Aren't Real" sign while yelling about the conspiracy in public (shown below).

On October 10th, 2018, Redditor LittleBastard submitted a photograph of a Birds Aren't Real posted stapled to a telephone pole to /r/funny,^[3] where it received more than 38,100 points (91% upvoted) and 600 comments with two weeks (shown below, left). The following day, the image was reposted to 9gag,^[2] where it gathered more than 9,500 points and 200 comments over the next 12 days. On October 14th, Redditor TheLiarNotWire posted a Birds Aren't Real T-shirt to /r/funny (shown below, right).

On October 22nd, YouTuber PewDiePie uploaded a Meme Review video in which he discusses the Birds Aren't Real meme (shown below). Within 24 hours, the video garnered more than 2.4 million views and 23,700 comments.

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