If you're learning another language, it's time for your daily reminder — have you practiced your Español today? Your Français? Deutsch? If not, you better watch out. The Duolingo Owl may be coming for you.
Duolingo is a language-learning app that takes a gamification approach to reaching goals in your target language. Their mascot is a cutesy little owl named Duo, who sends you daily reminders to practice.
But what if you happen you miss a day, or forget? Duo is not a very forgiving beast.
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The Duolingo Twitter account recently shared a teaser image for an upcoming app update that gave off pretty ominous vibes.
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Most users speculated that this probably pointed to a "dark mode" for the app. But when the Twitter account denied that this update was a dark mode, it only made the image seem even more menacing.
The memes rolled in — he sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows when you haven't practiced Japanese in three days, and he's out for vengeance.
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So if you have the time, open the app and the Duolingo owl might — oh god, he's right behind me isn't he?
