ClydeR
12-12-2021, 08:12 PM
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.
More... (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html)
Those t-shirts sound perfect for the last few people on my Christmas list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnXkyXqxz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnXkyXqxz8
From the video..
"The fastest animal in the world is the peregrine falcon which can dive at up to speeds of 240 miles an hour. That's pretty fast, but you know we can throw things pretty fast too, right? So I looked up the fastest baseball pitch, and it was clocked in at 105.1 miles an hour. So you're telling me that something made of feathers can go more than twice as fast as the fastest baseball pitch in the world and say that it hasn't been mechanically engineered by the government? That it doesn't have a jet propulsion system? You gotta be kidding me!"
That has to make you wonder.
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.
More... (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html)
Those t-shirts sound perfect for the last few people on my Christmas list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnXkyXqxz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnXkyXqxz8
From the video..
"The fastest animal in the world is the peregrine falcon which can dive at up to speeds of 240 miles an hour. That's pretty fast, but you know we can throw things pretty fast too, right? So I looked up the fastest baseball pitch, and it was clocked in at 105.1 miles an hour. So you're telling me that something made of feathers can go more than twice as fast as the fastest baseball pitch in the world and say that it hasn't been mechanically engineered by the government? That it doesn't have a jet propulsion system? You gotta be kidding me!"
That has to make you wonder.