ah Birds real ponder on that question for a moment and then ask yourself just
exactly why you clicked on this video that's quite the outlandish remark right
a birds real let it sink in of course birds are real they're flying high above
our heads perched on telephone lines and electrical wires across city skylines
pigeons flock together in hordes eagles soar majestically across Grand Canyon
small sparrows built their nest just before winter and cuckoos continue to be
well cuckoos are sociopaths we all know that you see of course birds are real
but can we ever be sure about anything because in a time where up is down and
left is right it's pretty difficult to see the birds for the trees so let's
take a look hello Internet what's going on and once again welcome back to the
most inquisitive channel on YouTube last piggys questions as per usual I'll be
your disembodied floating willjack finch as today we curacy ask the question are
birds real yeah when we're really asking this questions hold on this there is
more to it don't worry just just roll the clip
and yes of course for the curious amongst you that scene was from Alfred
Hitchcock's 1963 avian based disaster thriller the birds and yes in that
particular scenario the feathered demons in question are very much real to real
in fact but that's not the point is it you may have gotten this far and thought
oh geez he's actually doing a video on where the birds are real or not well
this should be a horror show and entertaining a few minutes before it all
crashes and burns let me get some popcorn
but of course there is much more to this statement than first meets the eye
just as the residents of Memphis Tennessee found out in the late autumn
of last year when several posters mysteriously began cropping up across
the city plain white in bold black heavy equipment font with a statement that red
birds aren't real again that's quite a claim right but soon enough posters in
the same sleepy Memphis neighborhoods soon turned into massive billboards with
the exact same outlandish claim and then it wasn't just Memphis but Chicago and
then over 50 cities across the United States all with the same bold lettering
birds are real wake up and then Instagram accounts began to emerge all
beneath the same banner birds aren't real Albuquerque Charleston Seattle hell
there was even one in Sydney Australia detailing the exact same posters the
same outlandish claims of birds not being real and then of course that was
all it took the curious were then hooked the trap was baited after a bit of
digging this manager of a slogan soon led the intrigue to a website echoing
the chambered claim that birds aren't real and then in a sleek black and white
Shopify design was a 5,000 word supporting document the history behind
the movement explaining just exactly why birds aren't real in a more condensed
manner it detailed that in 2001 the US government completed the eradication of
all birds every single feathered creature across the continent which it
had then replaced with surveillance drones in it the movements creator who
will get onto in a moment claimed that after the CIA was founded in 1947 the
higher-ups were so annoyed that birds had been dropping fecal matter on their
car winnows for so long that they vowed to
wipe out every single flying feathered creature in north america and then
replaced them with autonomous robots starting from 1959 and eventually ending
in 2001 all of the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing the website claims
that any bird you see flying across the US borders to either Mexico or Canada
are simply tracking an American citizen who has traveled outside of the United
States that's pretty convenient right but hey what about well you know that
wall everyone's been talking about well yeah that wall is in fact a structure to
be encapsulated with thousands of microwave guns that can track any bird
entering the United States shoot it with harsh microwaves which then in turn
destroys the birds ability to fly leaving it deceased in under a few hours
and well we'll stop there because if you can already guess the extravagance of
this tall tale is exactly that a tall tale one that is admittedly written with
tongue firmly in cheek but also one that hits on some impeccable and relevant
points we live in the age of tall tales it's the reason you're clicking on this
video the term post truth is often so freely banded about but the truth of it
for lack of a better term is that trying to figure out just exactly what's real
and what's false can be a very difficult task in today's climate on Twitter BOTS
humans and humans are BOTS sometimes depending if it's a performance piece or
not the absurd lurks around every corner assaulting our eyeballs in the digital
landscape unverified sources this video included of people framing tall tales
in ways that sometimes we can only feel compelled to trust sometimes the art of
it is in the disinformation and sometimes disinformation is are you sea
birds are real and the birds aren't real movement was created by an individual
named Peter McKenna who several years ago created the first birds aren't real
Instagram post in November of 2017 he posted to Facebook I made a satirical
movement a few months ago and people on Instagram seem to like it a
lot and that was it really but that's before he really had to hammer in on the
joke and double down on his ingenuity of satire that was before he had to commit
entirely to the birds aren't real movement when the actual nature of its
design was fully realized because then the internet picked it up and like all
of the best memes the joke just wasn't funny anymore because it was true and
people believed it well only partially they still gave a nudge nudge wink wink
I get it don't worry which in turn was the point of it but hey the Internet is
a strange place and we'll never really understand it it's moving parts but the
point is it's spread like wildfire PewDiePie's meme review picked it up and
suddenly as is the nature of the internet the birds aren't real website
was the next biggest thing and that's exactly the reason that this very video
is again popping up on your timeline because as trends and re trends roll and
crash like the endless waves of the ocean the next biggest thing is merely
the mechanics of an algorithm and interestingly enough the birds are real
movement served to highlight that that with the right framing people will
believe absolutely anything and guess what not only will they believe it
they'll also buy your merch because the movements creator Peter Burke endo sells
some pretty dope t-shirts on his website if I may say so myself why well to
inform the masses of course why else also if you're still not sure yes birds
are real and birds are awesome that's all there is to it really but question
everything that's the point well there we have it our long and short answers to
the question are birds real yes yes they are just ask me jack Finch I'm literally
sir named after a bird what do you guys think do you agree disagree have any
more to answer this particular question then let us know your thoughts down in
the comment section below as well as any intriguing insight of your own before
depart from today's video though let's first take a quick look at some of your
more creative comments over the past few days
first up leo stacks a's no sheesh partly calm down
next up master of the universe says everything small is just a small version
of everything big and vice-versa well what dude well my mind is well and
truly deconstructed thank you for that I'm gonna go lie down there
unfortunately that's all we've got time for today's video tip sticking out all
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until to somebody flying voice Jack Finch you've been watching life's
biggest questions and until next time you take it easy all of the birds died
in 1986 due to Ragan killing them and replacing them with spies that are now
watching us the birds work for the bourgeoisie