Ahh, the Duolingo app. Great for trips abroad, trying to remember the language you took for two years in high school and subsequently forgot, or for a mid-twenties crisis. There's no denying the app can be useful and fun!
But people have noticed that the Duo Owl is...really determined to make everyone stay committed to learning. In the funniest way, too.
Here are some of the best memes about it:
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when you dismiss that duolingo notification
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Me: H- Duolingo: I killed your parents so now you have no reason to miss today’s lesson
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i see duolingo is fully embracing murder as their brand
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jesus christ @duolingo that's one hardcore email campaign
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(the duolingo owl physically emerges from my phone screen and murders me with a knife)
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im going as the duolingo owl for halloween so i can use the handful of french words i know to bully everyone
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jokes abt the duolingo owl being absurdly hostile are funny but really no post any of us make will ever be as funny as the quiet, blistering contempt of the actual “these reminders don’t seem to be working, so we’ll stop sending them” message
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@duolingo The duolingo owl waiting to attack when it's 11:59pm and I still haven't done my daily lesson
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what is the duolingo owl planning
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oh god oh fuck
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it's 2025. duolingo has every language from star wars and game of thrones but the yiddish and haitian creole courses still aren't finished. the duolingo owl now holds your family hostage until you practice your daily spanish. you still only know how to say "the dogs wear hats"
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the duolingo bird when i haven’t been active for two days
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in my most recent job interview my interviewer goes “so i saw something i wanted to talk to you about....” and paused for a long time and my stomach dropped and i really believed in that moment that she found my tweets about wanting to fuck the duolingo owl
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Me after taking one Duolingo French session
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Dutch duolingo is NOT fucking around
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KIDNAPPER: *hits me across the face* nobody's ever gonna find u [duolingo owl busts through the door and shoots the kidnapper] ME: holy shit u saved me OWL: u've got more spanish to learn. u'll die when i say u can die
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Ladies if he: Verbally abuses and scares you Forces you into learning new subjects Messages you day and night saying he’s more important than whatever you’re doing Then he is not your boyfriend he’s the duolingo owl
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Thanks to Duolingo I can now have a breakdown in Norwegian
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i wonder if dua lipa uses duo lingo
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Duolingo can be funny sometimes
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Duolingo gets me.
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I think Duolingo wants me to murder someone 😕
This post contains content from Scott Bryan, Natalya Lobanova, and Kelly Martinez. It was compiled by Laura Frustaci.