Duolingo is a language learning app in which the owl is, ostensibly, your language teacher. These jokes arise from the almost admirably horrible way that the app’s developers have chosen to structure and to write its built-in notifications. Most anyone who had ever used Duolingo could relate. A popular tweet called the owl “the ultimate male manipulator,” and several others proclaimed some version of “no one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission except the Duolingo owl.” Another raft of these jokes went around during the pandemic, when supposedly even more people, stuck inside with their social lives vastly reduced, were using the app to try to learn a new language. A whole genre of tweet and post and meme exists online about the owl: The Duolingo owl is in your house, the Duolingo owl wants to punish you, the Duolingo owl is emotional violence, the Duolingo owl is straightforward violence, the Duolingo owl will kidnap your family, beg for your life in Spanish. Sometimes it’s easy to believe that whatever hurts most is the thing that is going to be most effective. Sometimes pain or shame feels like change, the real, sticky, awful, believable engine of it. The Duolingo owl is a thesis about the ability of people to change, and what it might take for them to do so. He only cares whether you can offer your attention to him.
He does not care if you are tired, or sad, or busy, or overjoyed, if you are out of work or have met someone new or lost someone you loved. The Duolingo owl cannot hear your excuses he does not make allowances for personal crises, or human flaws.
He is easily hurt, and nothing is ever good enough for him. He does not indicate any relationship to flight at all. He is small and chipper and possibly flightless I do not think you ever see him spread his wings and soar across the screen in the app.
The Duolingo Owl is green, which is a color no owl in real life has ever been.
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