Birds Aren't Real

Anybody else following this satirical conspiracy?



It's pretty funny.

Anybody else following this satirical conspiracy?



It's pretty funny.

Yeah, I'm a big fan. Posted some of their stuff before. Here's an article that just came out a couple of days ago. Essentially the guy who started it reminds me of Leo Ferrari and his flat earth movement, satire at its best.

Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.

Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral Birds Aren’t Real movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about.

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.

What Birds Aren’t Real truly is, they say, is a parody social movement with a purpose. In a post-truth world dominated by online conspiracy theories, young people have coalesced around the effort to thumb their nose at, fight and poke fun at misinformation. It’s Gen Z’s attempt to upend the rabbit hole with absurdism.