Yahoo Finance The Duolingo owl is out for vengeance in these threatening memes
If you're learning another language, it's time for your daily reminder — have you practiced your Español today? Your Français? Deutsch? If not, you better watch out. The Duolingo Owl may be coming for you.
Duolingo is a language-learning app that takes a gamification approach to reaching goals in your target language. Their mascot is a cutesy little owl named Duo, who sends you daily reminders to practice.
But what if you happen you miss a day, or forget? Duo is not a very forgiving beast.
— Elbardo (@Elbardo_ts) March 26, 2019
The Duolingo Twitter account recently shared a teaser image for an upcoming app update that gave off pretty ominous vibes.
— Duolingo (@duolingo) March 26, 2019
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Most users speculated that this probably pointed to a "dark mode" for the app. But when the Twitter account denied that this update was a dark mode, it only made the image seem even more menacing.
The memes rolled in — he sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows when you haven't practiced Japanese in three days, and he's out for vengeance.
— Michael Hernandeƶ (@mixaelii) March 27, 2019
— Tay Chang (@TayChang) March 26, 2019
— your pal, friendpatine (@palfriendpatine) March 26, 2019
Duo is coming to kill us in our sleep if we don't practise 😳
— Rebecca🇮🇹🇸🇪🇨🇿🇷🇺🇦🇿🇸🇲 (@PharaohRCM) March 26, 2019
yes... put me out of my misery you weird ass owl I beg... https://t.co/DuKHn2erNc
— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) March 27, 2019
— ben (@aaaravos) March 27, 2019
Is this Duo coming to my door in the middle of the night to kill me because I haven't taken my German lessons since Thursday?
— leja (@afterlaughter16) March 26, 2019
my therapist: the duolingo owl isnt real and cant hurt you
the duolingo owl: https://t.co/itB7JrXO0L— frog boy! (@jU_Ube) March 27, 2019
I’m....so sorry duolingo owl......i promise I’ll practice my conjugations rn....I’m sorry please don’t come for me https://t.co/bESrZn8mhD
— valeria 🦚 (@chefboyarv) March 27, 2019
So if you have the time, open the app and the Duolingo owl might — oh god, he's right behind me isn't he?
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