Is this a pigeon?

Is this a pigeon? (Japanese: これは鳩ですか?, Hepburn: Kore wa hato desu ka?) is an Internet meme and quote of the protagonist from the 1990s Japanese anime TV series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird. The image originates from a scene where the character mistakenly identifies a butterfly as a pigeon. The image was originally posted on Tumblr.

Origin

The meme features Yutaro Katori, an android made by professor Hiroshi Amano, who misidentifies a butterfly as a pigeon while studying terrestrial nature in a scene from Season 1, Episode 3 of The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird, which first aired in Japan in 1991.[1][2]

The scene was uploaded to Tumblr in 2011, spawning many variations and becoming a popular meme where the butterfly and Katori's subtitle are relabeled to suggest a different mistaken identification.[1] It had another run of popularity in 2018.[3][4][5][6]

Reception

On June 27, 2013, BuzzFeed highlighted the meme in their compilation article titled "27 Subtitles That Have Gone Awesomely Wrong."[7] Mashable described it as a new Distracted boyfriend meme of 2018.[8] The Daily Dot described it as the best meme template of 2018,[9] while Thrillist described it as the dankest memes of the 2010s.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Feldman, Brian (May 15, 2018). "The Pigeon Meme Is Here to Bring Order to the Internet". Intelligencer.
  2. ^ "Some of These Pigeon Memes Are Almost Too Relatable". Vice.com. 16 May 2018.
  3. ^ Shamsian, Jacob (May 7, 2018). "The 'is this a pigeon?' meme is super relatable for people who have no idea what they're doing". Insider. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  4. ^ Gerken, Tom (May 15, 2018). "How a 2011 meme took over Twitter in 2018". BBC News. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  5. ^ Romano, Aja (May 15, 2018). ""Is this a meme?": the confused anime guy and his butterfly, explained". Vox. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  6. ^ "Is this a pigeon? A 2011 meme reincarnated in 2018". BBC News. May 15, 2018.
  7. ^ Lin, Joseph (27 June 2013). "27 Subtitles That Have Gone Awesomely Wrong". BuzzFeed.
  8. ^ Hamilton, Isobel (May 8, 2018). "The 'is this a pigeon' meme is the new 'distracted boyfriend' and it's way too real". Mashable.
  9. ^ "Why 'Is This a Pigeon?' was the best meme template of 2018". The Daily Dot. December 20, 2018.
  10. ^ "The Dankest Memes of the 2010s". Thrillist. 20 November 2019.
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