![]() Wake up America! Wake up!” The idea of selling Birds Aren’t Real goods, he says, came after the stunt gained traction over Instagram.Ī post shared by Birds Aren't Real on at 4:28pm PDT A video from the event shows McIndoe with a crudely drawn sign, heckling protesters with lines like, “Birds are a myth they’re an illusion they’re a lie. ![]() McIndoe first went live with Birds Aren’t Real in January 2017 at his city’s Women’s March. The creative muscle behind the avian-inspired conspiracy (and thinly disguised marketing scheme) is 20-year-old Peter McIndoe, an English and philosophy major at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Therein lies the genius of Birds Aren’t Real: It’s a digital breadcrumb trail that leads to a website that leads to a shop full of ready-to-buy merchandise. But for a few followers, this movement is no more unbelievable than QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy theory turned marketing ploy that holds that someone with high-level government clearance is planting coded tips in the news. By surfacing murky bits of history and the ubiquity of Aves, Birds Aren’t Real feeds into this era of post-truth politics. The campaign relies on internet-fueled guerilla marketing to spread its message, manifesting through real-world posters and Photoshopped propaganda tagged with the “Birds Aren’t Real” slogan.įor much of its devoted fanbase, Birds Aren’t Real is a respite from America’s political divide-a joke so preposterous both conservatives and liberals can laugh at it. Sounds extreme but also somewhat fitting, given the landscape of today's social discourse. ![]() ![]() They were then supplanted with avian-like robots that could be used to surveil Americans. Our tax dollars have been funneled into building the “Turkey X500,” a robot used to hunt large birds.Ĭombine all these conspiracies and you get Birds Aren’t Real, a nearly two-year-old movement that claims the CIA took out 12 billion feathered fugitives because directors within the organization were “annoyed that birds had been dropping fecal matter on their car windows.” The targets were eradicated between 19 with specially altered B-52 bombers stocked with poison. government is sequestering a team of Boeing engineers in Area 51 for a secret military mission. Kennedy after he refused to kill and replace billions of birds with drones. ![]()
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