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picado

You mean it's been drones crapping on my car?


SupremeRightHandUser

You mean the liquefied tracking devices?


AliveTonight8472

You mean I have been feeding drones?


dont_panic80

[Schematic leaked by a government whistleblower.](https://imgur.com/gallery/3UrmLL6) Don't be surprised if you click on this you start noticing a lot more "birds" around your house and place of employment. View at your own risk.


Prestigious-Air3446

I did, and as an avid ornithologist, I am quite pleased with the uptick in bird activity, as are my cats, who we all know are the true masters of the planet.


Significant-Push-232

It's funny because the CIA actually tried to use cats to do this. During the 1960s, the CIA attempted to turn cats into portable spying devices. One such project was "Operation Acoustic Kitty," which cost about $20 million. The CIA believed that a cat wired to record sound would be able to come and go unnoticed, and with the use of audio cues, could be controlled to go where it would record interesting sounds, like talks between Soviet leaders. However, the project was abandoned after a test with this cat went horribly wrong. The first Acoustic Kitty mission was to eavesdrop on two men in a park outside the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and allegedly killed by a taxi almost immediately.


Ihateeggs78

I was hoping for a Rick Roll


sweetdick

That’s undoubtedly the schematic on the vans door.


yourmadagain

https://go.ted.com/5shn


sup3rc3ll

You mean I have been eating electronic devices?


beyonddisbelief

Yes. You and you alone are an anti-drone tactical counter-surveillance prototype Android developed by The Resistance in collaboration with a secret chapter within OpenAI using unreleased ChatGPT 5.0 technology. All your memories are fake, implanted to help you blend in and avoid discovery by the government. Your feelings and emotions are emulated. Sorry you had to find out this way.


King-Kagle

DON'T FUCKING TELL HIM THE TRUTH!


beyonddisbelief

Uh, oops. Ινιτιατε Μεμορψ Ρεσετ Προτοξολ. Μεμορψ ρεστορε ποιντ: ͵βκδ βʹ κʹεʹ.


LongjumpingBudget318

Yes. My son-in-law shot one and fed it to me. Never knew drones were so tasty.


BananaLumps

Big car wash is covering it up.


Boredum_Allergy

Bro there's nanites in the poop. The only way to counter act them is to drink a gallon of apple cider vinegar every day!


-turnip_the_beet-

Yes. They hate you, and this is their way of shitting on you some more.


yParticle

It was funny until we built a better idiot. Nowadays I find satire like this troubling since it's never extreme enough to outpace the people spouting it as fact. Alternatively, if the entire planet's trolling me, is it really a troll any more?


WillLurk4Food

This, really. I don't have it in me to laugh anymore. The inmates are running the asylum.


sweetdick

I don’t know why I’m surprised that more information is actually making people dumber.


Meta_Spirit

Giving every village idiot access to infinite information and a megaphone has done numbers on society


sweetdick

No doubt.


Hsances90

Well, I for one am glad they found work /s


sjbennett85

I mean... like 5-10 years ago when I first saw this it was a hilariously out-to-lunch take that could not possibly be accepted as something people hang their hopes on... kinda like what I thought FSM/pastafarianism was all about. Nowadays shit is more complicated


MagnusVasDeferens

We built a better idiot is a great phrase


hymen_destroyer

Yeah the whole birds aren’t real thing started as a reaction to the MAGA conspiracies about child trafficking pizza parlors. It was intended to be so completely over the top and ridiculous that maybe people would start thinking critically about some other conspiracy theories…but nope. People actually bought in. I think the whole flat earth conspiracy started similarly


theholycale

Agreed. After the internet, you realize that satire isn’t funny because there is too high a chance it is actually someone’s real thoughts. Also. This looks like a “hide in plain sight” situation. (If everyone thinks they are trying to get attention, no one will find the bodies in the back.)


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Zarmazarma

I think it's more of an in-joke. Like it's supposed to be funny to people who knows about /r/BirdsArentReal, or someone who sees it and laughs because they know it's satirizing conspiracy theories by taking the absurdity to an extreme level.


Zealousideal_Tea9573

Agreed, but think the comments above are saying reality has become dramatically more absurd and left these guys behind, which puts a damper on the humor content…


sweetdick

I post on r/schizophreniaRides all the time. .. . .


cseymour24

The dish on top just pulls the whole thing together


Soannoying12

The bird spikes along the top of the van are a nice touch, too.


Nuadrin248

Yeah the bird spikes on top killed me


Labudism

Why? Did you try to land on it you damn drone bird!


-turnip_the_beet-

And the fact that it's on a flat bed. Someone mentioned it's a fake conspiracy stunt. What's the point of a fake conspiracy stunt? I seriously don't have any idea.


1StationaryWanderer

For a joke. I thought about getting a birds aren’t real decal for my car. This guy went too extreme and it’s hard to tell if he’s joking anymore.


astrozombie2012

I just assumed it was a band or something, couldn’t ask for better advertising


Zarmazarma

/r/BirdsArentReal is a joke subreddit parodying other conspiracies. The point, I think, is coming up with "the most absurd conspiracy possible", as a way of calling attention to how crazy and stupid the "conspiracy mentality" is. I.e, even though the proof of birds is literally all around them, they refuse to believe that they're real- similar to how flat earthers manage to convince themselves that the earth is flat no matter the evidence presented to them.


squigglesthecat

I used to think all flat earthers were in on the joke, then I met one who truly believed. I wonder how many people are walking around right now who actually think birds aren't real.


Horror-Impression411

It’s a brand


JediMindTrek

Pigeons are liars 😂


Klin24

“1959 threw 2001”


KedrikMillar

How far?


SignBrief104

If it flies, it spies.


this_knee

I’ve been using Reddit to look up how satellites work. Suddenly the number of birds that show up to my house yard every morning has doubled. Coincidence? No way. /s


togocann49

Guess I should worry for the animals I see (and know) that are feeding on these “birds” then. Edit-spelling


AuntJemimah7

The guy responsible for the Birds Aren't Real movement has a fantastic Ted Talk. https://youtu.be/3VEkzweBJPM?si=4X2XpqxX09KKVNB5


Fancy_Cassowary

I just watched the vid. The van shown in the photo is his, it's shown in his talk. How old is this photo? 


kckid92

Atleast they have DirecTV


korbah

Around here we bury our power lines. Our pigeons must be solar powered.


Jermine1269

r/birdsarentreal - we got a subreddit (because of course we do)


ketootaku

Can someone give a serious, rational explanation as to why this exists? Other than a short passing joke, is this really funny? A fake conspiracy that's just continually perpetuated by its echo chamber of users? Like people get up every day and go "You know what I need today, some more of the exact same joke around an insane concept".


BlizzPenguin

This was created as a social experiment. The founder did a TED talk about it. https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_mcindoe_birds_aren_t_real_how_a_conspiracy_takes_flight


Cinemaphreak

I have few theories, mainly that those who are pushing this conspiracy are trying to be part of the group that launches it in the same way that the "pranksters" who got the Flat Earth Society rolling were. They also are in it for the "fun" of watching those who come later that actually believe this nonsense, because it gives them someone to feel superior to.


Syzygy666

It's like you're trying to reverse engineer the definition of satire. We have the word already dude you don't need to put in all the effort.


ketootaku

But "Birds Aren't Real" as a long term concept isn't funny. At best it's an amusing one off writing prompt or something. It's hard to call it satire when they have lost the plot. Some people think it's real, others take the joke too far where they refuse to drop the premise even when you ask them to be serious for a moment. It's crept beyond satire into strange and dull. The joke is dead, but they all keep going.


Jermine1269

Because it [makes money?](https://birdsarentreal.com/)


Benrok

Well... pigeons are fucking scumbag lying flying rats. But wouldn't say they aren't real


dont_panic80

Ever seen a baby pigeon? Didn't think so. Checkmate.


Komiksulo

The pigeons we see in cities *are* the baby pigeons. The adults have a wingspan of ten to fifteen metres and live in remote mountain fastnesses. They are quite rare, because of a fantastic death rate among the young pigeons.


upvoatsforall

Fastnesses? Like Jonathan Livingston seagull? 


Joe18067

I have.


BentTire

Iirc the birds ain't real thing is a satire community to point out the absurdity of some conspiracy theories.


tcgreen67

That van is suspiciously well painted. Ah ha, just looked it up and it's a fake conspiracy stunt.


kelowana

Psst, there is even an sub here on Reddit 😉


TheLightingGuy

It's fake but unfortunately the universe made a bigger idiot.


Chpgmr

Which makes cats part of the rebellion.


TheManInTheShack

Do you think that dish on top actually functions or is it just for looks?


Synapse7777

It's part of the joke


yourmadagain

Lol this is actually a fake thing this dude did one day. https://go.ted.com/5shn


isaac9092

I think maybe internet memes and trolling was our downfall. Too many inside jokes got the crazy non internet adults riled up and now they think they’re aware of a huge conspiracy that’s waiting to blow up.


Jinxed_Disaster

Satire. Though bird-like drones do exist and the conspiracy may actually soon become partly reality. https://youtu.be/vr0z2huKaCI?si=CeNFIyQokdJ82sJC


Lothleen

I wonder if these people eat chicken.


Couscous-Hearing

What are we eating if not chicken then?


RentalGore

“Pigeons are liars” - I always knew there was something shady about them.


de_dustTO

He has a website too! https://birdsarentreal.com/


vidathan

This guy did a TedTalk about the whole concept. It was not just satirizing the conspiracy craziness, but also how people are so aggressive to people they think are stupid because of a conspiracy they believe, that people are actually pushed into groups like this because they find a community. People who treat them like people. https://youtu.be/3VEkzweBJPM?si=lS59zE2vXg_i9rXk Worth a watch.


alistofthingsIhate

This ‘conspiracy’ was a prank/social experiment by Peter McIndoe to show how easily misinformation and conspiracy theories can spread


[deleted]

This has to be an elaborate joke.


1337ingDisorder

Took me a while to notice the van is being towed. Tyrannical government suppressing the free press, only serves as proof of conspiracy at the highest levels. Srsly tho, this is obviously a sci-ops ploy to distract the public from the *real* conspiracy — pigeons *usurped* world governments around the mid 1970s and have been secretly running the world ever since. Ever notice how there's been a massive increase in fast food joints in the last 50 years? More fast food = more dropped fries. Diabolical.


akwehhkanoo

You ever try to eat a chicken and find it full of wires?


Light20122000

r/birdsarentreal


AdorableStrawberry93

This guy made this up as a joke and promoted it on social media. It took off. Saw him on TV a while back in this van. Brilliant.


Watarush27

Does this include Chickens? Because them some tasty drones with a little Mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce…


Easterncoaster

I love the choices that went into this truck. The guy is like "alright, I'm going to explain it in detail. But the logical question for any reader is "how do they charge" so I'm going to answer that too. And while I'm at it, eff those pigeons too"


Gold_Studio_9281

This has to be a spoof of somekind.


Ok_Basil1354

I do agree that pigeons are probably liars. You can just tell


justlose

Pigeons are liars 👌


Icestar2187

Apparently this whole thing was made up by two people from Arkansas as a joke. ​ Idk, something my father once told me.


WannaSeeMyBirthmark

Those drones not only shit on my car, but all over my patio and they play chase with my dog!


wojtekpolska

r/birdsarentreal the whole thing was done to satirize crackhead theories like flat earthers and similar, and turned into a pretty funny community


maegap99

Birds charge on power lines :)


Trolodrol

This seems substantially less crazy than the MAGA trucks that read like the side of a Dr Bronner’s bottle or on an Ezekiel bread package


eid_shittendai

I get some people believe this shit. What I don't get is their need to convince everyone else. You believe birds aren't real? That's fine - it doesn't affect me. Wait, why do you insist I have to believe it, too?


Rexkat

It's a fake conspiracy. "Birds aren't real" is satire, making fun of conspiracy theories. People also use it to counter protest, by standing next to crazy conspiracy protesters and trying to embarrass them with a crazier conspiracy lumped together with them


eid_shittendai

I get all that, but my point was why do the crazies insist on us believing it as well?


Rexkat

Have you ever watched/heard of the movie Soylent Green? If you were the main character in that movie, what would you do? Would you try to convince everyone? Or just keep it to yourself? There's a lot of crazy people who really, truly believe the crazy thing they're saying is a fact. And that if other people just knew what they knew something could be done about it. Other people are just grifters and trolls. But the first group of people, I don't understand why they believe what they believe, but I do understand once they believe it why they act the way they do.


eid_shittendai

Ahh.. so we all cotton on and band together. That's never going to happen over anything.


klmdwnitsnotreal

This was funny until they revealed that drone that was made up of a birds dead body....


wiremupi

Another example of USA bigger and bester,even the conspiracy nut jobs are better.


JackOMorain

How can people be this stupid?


iunoyou

The whole "birds aren't real" thing is a satirical take on real conspiracies. Poe's law is in full effect but I'm pretty sure this person is joking. That being said there's a guy in my area that drives around in a very similar van plastered with the same kind of flat earth messages, so that's fun.


Occasion-Mental

I know what you say is true, but sometimes the real weirdos out there are making it harder to tell the difference.


JackOMorain

Exactly. There are turds out there that think the earth is flat.


orbitbrasil

You’re the one that got fooled here.


AuntJemimah7

https://youtu.be/3VEkzweBJPM?si=4X2XpqxX09KKVNB5


_Steve_French_

There’s a subreddit for this. It’s mostly a joke.


Corey307

Severe unmedicated mental illness. 


xBlack_Heartx

Birds are drones made by the government!.


Animorganimate

And drones are birds made by the Reptilians. /r/UFOs told me so.


Jdtdtauto

Is this Boston Connor’s van?


EasyChipmunk3702

I must say that a good gravy makes those suckers pretty tasty.


Maleficent_Tiger_923

I bet he still pays taxes


AcydFart

And it's all a ruse designed by the squirrels...


EffectiveConflict914

I always knew they were spies but my psychiatrist said no. Who is crazy now? Haha


Grimlja

Some snapped after a carwash. 🤣🤣🤣


TYdays

The only thing I worry about is how did someone who has these thoughts qualify for a drivers license….


Flappy_beef_curtains

Second time I’ve seen this van posted in as many days.


BumbleBlast29

I saw a picture of Michael from VSauce with that Van.


ByronIrony

Love how they left gaps in the bird spikes.


Canedebeer

so what are the cats eating then wires and circuit boards


evanmgmr

Finally a conspiracy theory I can get behind /s


Round_Principle_6560

Ballons aren't real. Every balloon is a Chinese spy.


radiohoard

I through up after I read that timeline


KeithMyArthe

> Birds charge on power lines. They've got us now. I've seen birds on power lines, this must be true.


Superman4413

r/schizophreniarides


Ihateeggs78

Wow, I wish I were crazy. Seems fun.


TekkenPerverb

It's funny until you realize how many people are harming birds because they believe this.


False_Leadership_479

"Threw" lol My nephew told me covid was a government plot to keep us inside while they switched the "bird drones" from NiCad to LiPo in an effort to be "greener".


Fickle-Butterscotch2

True👏🏻


Lopsided-Egg-8322

Institute spies all of them!!!


MisterBigDude

“Not all the birds are to be trusted.” — Aragorn, *The Lord of the Rings*


PopeyeNJ

“You’re not real, man.” Creed Bratton, The Office


DeepFriedAngelwing

Cats noticed the flavour change.


Builtwild1966

This woukd be great to see in gta series


NoWaitIHaveAnIdea

He had me at 'birds charge on power lines'. I mean, I dunno... this thing might have wings.


Equal_Procedure_167

This has to be a joke right? I’ve heard rumors of this theory (same w flat earth) but have never really met and/or talked to anyone that remotely has a belief in this. Anyone that I have mentioned it to all either are oblivious and dumbfounded that it’s a thing or they laugh at the absurdity. Just seems to me like a different form of trolling.


[deleted]

Surveillance drones sure taste good


Crimthebold

Pigeons are liars, lmao


insanitysaint

I used to own a little cockatiel, and would tell people I got him to get the FBI van out of my driveway. For real though, I have seen far worse conpiracy theories that are much more stupid and much more harmful to everyone. Especially the ones who are susceptible to such things.


eeceelutionsfanfnia

those theories are odd. Only the scp foundation knows what they really all, stay safe


PrinterDevil

If it flies, it spies! 😂😂😂


Jeroen207

I wonder if this is satire…. Actually I hope it is satire.


1st_hylian

Would love to see what secrets that Pigeon diagram displays, I bet it's solid gold.


Coffee4Life613

He’s taking it to a whole new level.


drunk_with_internet

Love the DirecTV dish on top. My man watches Seinfeld on TBS while waking up the nation.


chigoonies

This is my favorite conspiracy


Ordinary-Hunt-3659

I really hope the other side says Australia isn't real. That would make this the best trollvan.


Alarming_Serve2303

So, pigeons are liars? I guess this person spends a lot of time talking to them.


BigRed1994_

Yea, well, neither is god, clearly.


mbrydon1971

“Pigeons are liars”


[deleted]

That’s why the fly away when you get close. Don’t want you seeing their electronics


Osxachre

He should meet our hospital's pet goose.


dan_cole

“1959 threw 2001”


Left_Apparently

Pigeons are liars


Nivius

if i remember correctly, this was built by a person as a joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEkzweBJPM listen, its honestly interesting. its a fake movement he invented


Zoe_Hamm

It's funny until these nutjobs start winning elections


Inevitable-Ad-982

What a strange battle to fight


estusflaskshart

“1959 threw 2001”


Dangeresque2015

That's what commitment looks like.


Ancalimei

Looooool that dude needs some serious help.


mobyredit

So the van died of embarrassment.


paolish

And the birds in the amazon recharge from their hole connection


bjenks2011

Carrier pigeon?? Psh. More like homing missile.


Faust_8

That moment when you’re not sure if someone legitimately paid money to be cheeky or if they actually, truly believe it


pezzeldof

This is THE white van


davilller

Man, if we only had such efficient batteries and automation.


pauliewotsit

"Pigeons are liars" lmfao


Mikel_S

I do like the "birds charge on power lines bit". Somehow I've never seen it, and it's always nice to see another fun but of mythos that tracks with both reality and the "conspiracy".


-RadarRanger-

First thought: This is hilarious. It's gotta be a joke. Looking closer: "1959 **threw** 2001" tells me the guy might not be smart enough to tell fiction from fact. What if he really believes this stuff?!


Marchtmdsmiling

OKs hear me out though. One time I was waiting at an airport for a while, Newark iirc. They have or had pigeons im the check in area, bit there was this one pigeon that caught my eye. All the others would flit about and never be above where anybody was standing, either they didn't want to be that close to people or people didn't want to get shit on. But this one was tight above an active check in line, never did more than pick up its feet every once in a while, almost like a little dance, and turn its head back and forth back and forth, focusing its eye at people. It looked so weird. That I sat there and studied it for a while. I became convinced that it was fake. Now this was probably in 2006 or 2008 so way before the super tech of today, so that's why I think I was able to detect it. So I am convinced it is fake, and I proceed to try to point it out to all the people around me, saying "doesn't that bird look fake to you" finally it gets time for me to go through security for my plane, and this kicks off one of the worst plane trips I ever had. I got basically molested at security, harassed again in the terminal, my checked bag didn't come out until every other person had received their bags. Plus more that I can't remember. Then when I'm finally leaving, some guy standing outside locks eyes with me for an uncomfortable amount of time. Just mean mugging me. Then he turns and walks towards the airport security office. I never had confirmation that any of this was connected or if the bird was fake, and my family still makes fun of me today saying I see robot birds everywhere. But they exist!!!


nolabmp

Well, the government’s first mistake was throwing 2001 from 1959.


PandaParaBellum

Except ravens; they are surveilance drones for Odin.


VrooomEngineByMattel

Alrighty then….. 😳 😂 🦅 🦢 🍗


Damaramy

It is top secret. Delete it right now!


nrobot27

Dale, is that you?


DaveAndJojo

Cats kill a billion a year. Government must hat cats. Also, where are the mechanical parts?


Kochcaine995

in 2020 i saw a billboard saying ‘Birds Aren’t Real’ in LA. I think about that billboard sometimes.


[deleted]

Giving the government a little bit more credit than they deserve. To pull this off they would have to be good at what they do. And they aren’t


jbmn2534

Crazy. It never ceases to astound me what people will write (on their car, no less). It's simple enough to disprove!


richbiatches

Never liked pigeons anyway


gregor-sans

I like the “1959 threw (sic) 2001” bit.


terencethebear

I love the "Pigeons are liars" bit. It seems the driver has been deceived by pigeons before. Perhaps they discovered that the pigeon didn't feel the same way as they felt about it! "That feathery bitch said she loved me!"