![Rotating Duck Wearing Flippers 3D Rendering of a mallard duck wearing flippers.
Article explains the origins and usage of the rotating duck gif](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/033/193/duck.jpg)
Rotating Duck Wearing Flippers
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About
Rotating Duck Wearing Flippers is an image macro meme featuring a GIF of a spinning mallard wearing a pair of blue diving flippers. The image has been edited into a series of video remixes in which the GIF is set to different music (similar to Polar Bear GIF).
Origin
On March 13th, 2013, foroactivo[1] forum user Metemoto Sakamoto published the earliest available version of the spinning duck (shown below). The wrote, "todo internet lo hace el mismo pato estupido."
![Duck spinning gif](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/784/086/301.gif)
Spread
The following year, the GIF was uploaded to GIPHY [2] from Tumblr.
On May 3rd, 2019, Timotainment published a video entitled "The Duck," which added the GIF to other videos. The post received more than 44,000 views in less than one year (shown below, left).
Nearly a year later, on March 6th, 2020, Redditor [3] Paranxipress used the GIF as a reaction to the caption "Some girl: *is giving me obvious signs that she likes me.*" The post received more than 18,000 points (97% upvoted) in less than
![Some girl is giving me obvious hints that she likes me Some girl: *is giving me obvious hints that she likes me* My brain:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/784/104/a1a.gif)
Various Examples
Search Interest
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Top Comment
Nedhitis
Mar 14, 2020 at 04:57PM EDT