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A fact from Birds Aren't Real appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Birds Aren't Real?

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The result was: promoted by Canadianerk (talk) 10:47, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Birds Aren't Real?
- ALT1: ... that the Birds Aren't Real movement claims that the United States government exterminated birds and replaced them with drones?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Presidential cabinets

Created by Milowent (talk) and Buidhe (talk). Nominated by Buidhe (talk) at 22:11, 9 December 2021 (UTC).[reply]

QPQ done and article just about long enough. New enough and well-sourced, no detection of copyvio. ALT0 is more hooky, but ALT1 is more "serious". Good to go, anyways. Juxlos (talk) 04:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted to Prep 6

Satirical?

The first sentence says "Birds Drones Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory". Well the movement denies to be satirical, and they call this label "offensive". Should we keep the "satirical" word in the definition? The fact that some media and observers call it satirical does not make it satirical imho. Topjur01 (talk) 05:04, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The creator has explicitly said it was a "satirical joke I made up in 3 minutes with some friends". He considers it to be obvious if "people dig into the movement for even 5 or 10 minutes and actually watch our videos. We insert lots of jokes and winks to it as a joke". I'd recommend you watch the Vice video that interviewed the creator (where he breaks character) if you need a source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK1dXuMEpT0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:A994:9500:9DB5:A7A8:1DE:57BA (talk) 13:36, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Topjur01, yes we should call it satirical. It doesn't matter what McIndoe, the zoomer activist Andy Kaufman, says about it at other times, we have solid sourcing for it.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 14:06, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're saying birds are real? Heretic. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:45, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Watchers of the page may be interested that there is now a userbox for this:

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(t · c) buidhe 16:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sort-of-serious point here: from what I can tell, it's fairly obvious this is a satirical movement, but some of the sources seem to write about it from some in-universe style, pretending to take it seriously. IDK what to do with this information, but just thought I'd mention it. —AFreshStart (talk) 16:42, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We can't use the Vice source because Peter has spoken genuinely about it saying that the video is a deep fake and is a demonic deep state hit job. See https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkM3daBVEH/. You may think it's obvious and deep state media may claim that the movement is satire, but of course they would. MurrayScience (talk) 11:57, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unrelated question, how do you get the “birds aren’t real” userbox to show up on your user page? AmazingFerret (talk) 04:31, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]