The sociopathic owl mascot of the language-learning platform Duolingo, which has a website, an app, and other components, specializes in intimidating people into continuing their courses. It knows no boundaries and can do anything from passive-aggressive notifications after a bit of inactivity to entering your bedroom while you’re asleep.
Some of the 300 million Duolingo users started making memes to tell about the times the owl came looking for them as it grew more and more assured in its wicked ways.
#1 Dutch Duolingo
#2 Intruder Alert
#3 You Know What Happens Know
#4 Practicing Your Spanish
#5 You Missed Your Spanish Lesson
#6 Translate This Sentence
#7 Translate This Sentence
#8 Coming Soon
#9 5 In A Row!
#10 Duolingo Funnies
#11 Duolingo’s Sense Of Humor
#12 Morbid Language Learning
#13 Learn Or Loose Your Family
#14 Forgetting Your Lesson
#15 Important Questions
Luis von Ahn, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the designer of reCAPTCHA, and his doctoral student Severin Hacker launched the Duolingo project there in 2009. Although the translation function has since been deleted, Luis Von Ahn initially intended to develop a tool that would allow users to learn a foreign language while also having the ability to translate brief words in documents.
#16 Well Done!
#17 The Final Duolingo Form
#18 Speak Spanish
#19 It’s Called Learning
#20 Peace Was Never An Option
#21 Duolingo’s Here!
#22 Duolingo Bird In Real Life
#23 Last Chance
#24 Where Were You?!
#25 Scary Owl
The project was initially funded by a National Science Foundation grant and Luis von Ahn’s MacArthur fellowship. Union Square Ventures and Ashton Kutcher’s company, A-Grade Investments, contributed further funding.
#26 Nobody Cares For Your English
#27 House Of Lies
#28 Practice! Now!
#29 A Real Threatening Aura
#30 You Missed Your Lesson
#31 Relentless Bird
#32 Practice It Or Die
#33 You will Die When I Say Die
#34 Don’t Miss Your Lessons.
#35 Don’t Miss Your Lessons.
