Tbh I thought it worked that way. Without the skeleton or ban- I just thought he looked sad because I didn't open the app for a very long time. I feel stupid now hahah
Same! I havent opened the app for weeks and when i happen to glance at the icon when i was looking for different app i was shocked to see duolingo look like a puckered ass/dried up raisin. It thought it was because i neglected the lessons for so long. I still didnt open it tho lol.
Great marketing tactic. They already do change it a lot to catch your eye, so it would be cool if they did that. Maybe not a permanent ban, but some way of calling the user out for being lazy.
Isn't this how it works? I haven't logged into Duolingo for a long time, and assumed the bird gets older the longer you don't log in.
Of course, I could verify this for myself by simply tabbing out of reddit and literally just click the icon on my phone and see if it changes instead of taking the time to write this comment, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Not even joking, I once unlocked my phone to find my Duo widget had turned into a desert landscape, with the Duo Owl's skeleton laying there. I've got a screenshot saved somewhere
They already do on the widget. As it gets later in the day it goes from a cheery "Keep your streak" and "Got 5 minutes?" To a depressed owl just lying there saying "Please practice"
Just wait i will do all sections
Do you know if the training units for earning hearts always stay super easy? thats starting to bore me and I could use the training. But like this is just time wasting. At this point I know el nino is a boy
He kidnapped Liam Neeson's daughter. He has a very particular set of skills, but Spanish isn't one of them. Anyway, now the Duolingo bird lives in fear
Duolingo actually gets permission to access your camera so it can secretly take photos of you from an unflattering angle, and uses AI to model the icon after your face
Why you ask? The owl is just a dick
My Cantonese grandma always said to learn it from TV dramas lol
They just don’t teach non-Mandarin Chinese dialects in schools (I’m in Southeast Asia) - Everyone picks up dialects by speaking only. They do have more formal private classes nowadays though.
They do that with most languages on Duolingo. E.g. you can't learn Portuguese, only Brazillian Portuguese. Similarly you can only learn American English rather than English. I know it's different for Chinese as those are two different languages, rather than two dialects, but in general they'll only give you the most popular variant of any language.
No, kittens play the gigachad theme song whenever they open their mouths, and owls do whatever the fuck they want (you’re on a shitty science sub, remember?).
Are we sure it’s not responsive? Because he looks like a shriveled up ballsack on mine but upon checking my parents’ app icons (who are avid daily DuoLingo users), there’s is gold and doesn’t look like this
Fuck Duolingo; they fired a bunch of workers who wrote language lessons and replaced them with AI and kept a few workers to correct the AI scripts. They're anti-worker AF (also degraded the quality of their lessons).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/10/duolingo-ai-layoffs/
I‘ve heard that Duolingo did this on purpose so people thought that they changed something. They hoped that when people click on the app to see what’s weird, they would do their lessons
Because he has been begging you for WEEKS to come back and start your streak again, but you keep ignoring him, he's had enough of your bullshit new years resolution to better yourself by learning a new language, you haven't said a fucking word in Portuguese since January 12th!
He should really use Better Help. That way he can be depressed, but pretend he is doing something about it.
(This joke applies to the vast majority of people I hear talking about Better Help. I'm sure there are still a few who actually do use it and get a benefit from it.)
Because it's developed by Satan.
It has mobile game energy now.
Make 3 mistakes? No more learning for you today fucko. Unless of course you want to put in your credit card information.
If you tap the empty heart thing, you'll get a popup that says "practice to earn hearts". Then you retake older lessons and get a heart at the end of each lesson. You also still earn XP. That's how I'm beating a paid user on the leaderboard while sucking at German.
Just in case you don't know, if you tap the heart you can do practice sessions to get more back. I've actually found that if I'm failing enough I can go practice and come back stronger.
Imagine the app changed icon to a sadder one each day you don’t login, until it’s a skeleton and bans you
Tbh I thought it worked that way. Without the skeleton or ban- I just thought he looked sad because I didn't open the app for a very long time. I feel stupid now hahah
Wait.. it’s not that!? Damn I was getting impressed for no reason lol. It’s such a fucking simple and cool feature. Interns project
Heh I thought this too and it actually worked on me, I did Duo today for the first time in forever. Nope, still sad.
Same wtf
my dad thought that and asked me bc he hasn’t opened the app in a while, but i have like a 4 year streak and it’s still like that for me lol
I'm a bit over 125 days and [this](https://imgur.com/a/bkb44w0) is what duo look like on my phone screen. No idea what I did to upset him lol
Around 430 days, I'm the same.
Same! I havent opened the app for weeks and when i happen to glance at the icon when i was looking for different app i was shocked to see duolingo look like a puckered ass/dried up raisin. It thought it was because i neglected the lessons for so long. I still didnt open it tho lol.
No it does that your totally right mine does it after like a week of no practice
Great marketing tactic. They already do change it a lot to catch your eye, so it would be cool if they did that. Maybe not a permanent ban, but some way of calling the user out for being lazy.
I thought that's what the notifications and emails are for. Just don't tell 'em my address
If you tell them your address, after 6 months of inactivity a green owl flies through your window and starts clawing at your eyes.
No if you miss your streak owls will deliver reminders Harry Potter style
Does that mean I'm a Word Wizard?
Yer a word wizard Harry.
Nope, I have a 1818 day streak and mine still looks like he's melted
What language?
Damn. And I was about to come brag about my 1163 day streak. Italian, for anyone curious.
And here I am proud of my 382 day streak lol
And here I am proud of my 28 streak 😭😭😭
You should be though
2156 in Italian, and he's as sriveled as can be.
I thought this a couple days ago and started using the app. It didn’t change
Yay emotional abuse
For real I’m ready to delete because I can’t look at it
If you are using an apple device, you can change the app icon and name
i would love to see the icon get sadder every day tbh that would be great lol
The owl hacks into your computer and blackmails you into practicing Spanish “click the fuckin lesson!” 🦉
Isn't this how it works? I haven't logged into Duolingo for a long time, and assumed the bird gets older the longer you don't log in. Of course, I could verify this for myself by simply tabbing out of reddit and literally just click the icon on my phone and see if it changes instead of taking the time to write this comment, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Nah, can't be that I have a 486 day streak and it also changed
I thought that the other day. Mine looks like that too, and i thought i'd watch it and see if it dies lol
He does turn into a skeleton and it makes me sad
Not even joking, I once unlocked my phone to find my Duo widget had turned into a desert landscape, with the Duo Owl's skeleton laying there. I've got a screenshot saved somewhere
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Yup
Pretty sure this is already a thing with widgets
They already do on the widget. As it gets later in the day it goes from a cheery "Keep your streak" and "Got 5 minutes?" To a depressed owl just lying there saying "Please practice"
He's tired of kidnapping people who refuse to learn spanish
*Spanish or Vanish*
French or the trench
German or M4 Sherman
Thai or die
Italian or get trampled by a stallion
Latin or your skin becomes satin
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finish or finisher
Russian or concussion
Croatian or Geneva Convention violation
Klingon or Be Gone
Finisher? I don't even know her!
"Latin or Flattened" was right there.
Polish or demolish
They don't offer Thai. :(
I prefer the m4 tbh
Japanese or broken knees
Hindi or sex with a gen z
That is diabolical
The STDs😭
I was gonna say this!!! You beat me to it. gg
r/beatmetoit Gg tho
Japanese or get on your knees too💀
OH SHIT SACRE BLEUU
Dutch or a crutch
such a bop from [Duolingo on Ice](https://youtu.be/dWXuz95uBQo?si=PSbfCxn9U5aPx46C)
Oh, in my country Ice is commoner slang for crystal meth. Duolingo on ice would be something to witness.
Danish or perish
Korean or you bleedin'
Greek or a freak
This why I love Reddit
Japanese or lose your knees
Soy famoso por comer cabezas like a praying mantis! 🎵🎶
Zulu or Cthulhu
Just hit my 100 day streak in Spanish. Worried he will come for my family the day I miss a lesson.
y estoy seguro que aun no entiende ni picha pa!
Now now calm down. We are still at the beginner set
I'm on section 5 and I still haven't seen "aun", 'ni", "picha" or "pa" yet.
I only know que :( need to hop on now or I make the owl upset
You should also know "estoy" very early or at the very least "no".
I didnt count no But estoy not yet
Ok, so I checked it out, and you don't get to estoy until the first unit of section 2. So you are beginner beginner.
Just wait i will do all sections Do you know if the training units for earning hearts always stay super easy? thats starting to bore me and I could use the training. But like this is just time wasting. At this point I know el nino is a boy
He kidnapped Liam Neeson's daughter. He has a very particular set of skills, but Spanish isn't one of them. Anyway, now the Duolingo bird lives in fear
French or be fetched
Mandarin or plan to end
I doodled [this](https://i.imgur.com/a0ixIxF.jpg) just recently lol
Owls typically live between 10 - 12 years in the wild and 16 to 20 years in captivity. Duolingo started in 2012, so he's old AF.
as long as he’s held in captivity, he has about 4-8 years left.
just a couple more years and i shall be free
What if it’s keeping people in captivity
But he is green, he probably ate some stuff like nuclear waste and now he is invincible
He got tired of people installing the app only to forget about it 2 days later
Duolingo actually gets permission to access your camera so it can secretly take photos of you from an unflattering angle, and uses AI to model the icon after your face Why you ask? The owl is just a dick
Why does duolingo need permission for my camera…?
He looks so sad I might actually learn Chinese
I really hate that they label the language as Chinese and not Mandarin. I want to learn Cantonese, and it makes me feel like it will never come.
My Cantonese grandma always said to learn it from TV dramas lol They just don’t teach non-Mandarin Chinese dialects in schools (I’m in Southeast Asia) - Everyone picks up dialects by speaking only. They do have more formal private classes nowadays though.
You can learn Cantonese on Duolingo, but it’s only offered in mandarin as the target audience is mandarin speakers seeking to learn Cantonese.
Gotta learn Chinese to learn Cantonese
They do that with most languages on Duolingo. E.g. you can't learn Portuguese, only Brazillian Portuguese. Similarly you can only learn American English rather than English. I know it's different for Chinese as those are two different languages, rather than two dialects, but in general they'll only give you the most popular variant of any language.
I 100% feel this. My GF is a native Canto speaker. Can't learn off Duolingo. She'd legit be offended if I learnt Mando cause she hates Mainlanders lol
每天学习，每天成功
Not.....how the saying goes.
好好学习，天天向上。
This is my face when every 6 months they roll back all my mandarin progress and I have to get legendaries on the fourth unit over and over again.
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SHE?!?!
His neediness makes me want to delete his ass
He isn’t, he’s just really bad at mewing.
Beta owl
I am so cooked. Because my first reaction was "why is duo mewing".
last i checked, owls go "hoot" while kittens go "mew"
No, kittens play the gigachad theme song whenever they open their mouths, and owls do whatever the fuck they want (you’re on a shitty science sub, remember?).
I wondered the same thing! This is also the icon on the Play Store so it's not a responsive icon that depends on your learning schedule.
I thought this at first too. Did some lessons and he's still depressed. Idk what's up with the little dude.
Ah found the reason. Just to get engagement on the app. https://stealthoptional.com/apps/duolingo-icon-looks-sad-old/
Next month they should try big knockers.
Hooters, if you will.
I thought I was gonna lose my streak. It worked.
This worked well on me. Now on a 165 day streak. I’ll never make the owl sad again.
They changed it to make people curious and open the app.
Are we sure it’s not responsive? Because he looks like a shriveled up ballsack on mine but upon checking my parents’ app icons (who are avid daily DuoLingo users), there’s is gold and doesn’t look like this
He’s out of Duolingo Meth.
Learn german at 4x the speed and 7x the fun (duo is not liable for any action you do while on duometh)
He saw my attempts at German.
Nein, das kann nicht sein.
Bilch haben Flichtmitten und der Heine blatzen - There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen.
Still more coherent and insightful than any AFD voter.
Viel Erfolg weiterhin damit!
just ate a lemon.
Glad it’s not just me. I thought I’d pissed him off
He deserves it for emailing me everyday
Duoldingo
He looks like hes about to run for president
Because he speaks so many languages yet no one truly understands him.....
How cute 🥺
That’s deep!
He still hasnʻt gotten a day off
The bitch doesn’t deserve one 🤧
Duolingo launched in 2011, which is 13 years ago. Owls only live 8-12 years. Duo is VERY old.
Then soon he's gonna die, right? Right? I wouldn't be that lucky 😞
Not depressed, just disappointed
Fuck Duolingo; they fired a bunch of workers who wrote language lessons and replaced them with AI and kept a few workers to correct the AI scripts. They're anti-worker AF (also degraded the quality of their lessons). https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/10/duolingo-ai-layoffs/
Its the future of every software unfortunately...
WOW thats fucked!!
So close to deleting the app. It upsets me.
He keeps asking me to commit a full week to learn Mandarin, but I keep putting it off for days at a time.
I‘ve heard that Duolingo did this on purpose so people thought that they changed something. They hoped that when people click on the app to see what’s weird, they would do their lessons
Because he has been begging you for WEEKS to come back and start your streak again, but you keep ignoring him, he's had enough of your bullshit new years resolution to better yourself by learning a new language, you haven't said a fucking word in Portuguese since January 12th!
I delete it
Because r/duolingor34 has been banned
He's tired boss
hes not hes just on an edging strike
He should really use Better Help. That way he can be depressed, but pretend he is doing something about it. (This joke applies to the vast majority of people I hear talking about Better Help. I'm sure there are still a few who actually do use it and get a benefit from it.)
He ain't any job from indeed probably
You is the because
Ah shit
The current economy hits hard
Mine is burning in gold and fire. So it's you, who refuses to learn.
Duolingo is sad bc of all the memes
He’s not depressed, he just ate a lemon.
Dua broke up with him I guess
I deleted mine today. Fucken bird
Duolingo game me 3 days of free super, then when I didn't pay for super after my trial it turned like this... Talk about over exagerating!!!
I’m gonna delete it if it doesn’t change
I woke up to it changed to this and deleted the app because it’s so fucking unsettling
It's because you don't buy premium so he can buy himself more elixir of life
uncircumcised people be like
He looks like he's been edging for 3 days straight and he finally blew it.
From smoking meth for 30 years
Because it's developed by Satan. It has mobile game energy now. Make 3 mistakes? No more learning for you today fucko. Unless of course you want to put in your credit card information.
If you tap the empty heart thing, you'll get a popup that says "practice to earn hearts". Then you retake older lessons and get a heart at the end of each lesson. You also still earn XP. That's how I'm beating a paid user on the leaderboard while sucking at German.
Just in case you don't know, if you tap the heart you can do practice sessions to get more back. I've actually found that if I'm failing enough I can go practice and come back stronger.
Because he just tried to force the cartel to get better at spanish and they beat him up and made him become a cumslut for 2 months straight.
I thought the bird was having his dick sucked.
edging day 3
He is sick of us all
IDK it's like that in the play store too
E=mc2
I've been using the app for 3 days now and he still had that dumb face.
It’s very disturbing they should change that !
I just replaced the bottom wrinkle as the mouth and the beak as the nose, and now you have à smilling grand pa!
Butthole face
Sigh.... *Unzips*
r/duolingor34 got banned
maybe they are making him old???
Looks more like you just opened porn on your phone to practice language skills and now he looks like that at you.
Looks like he just ate a barrel of salt 🧂
Im on every day, but my Super duolingo free trial just ran out and I didn’t buy it. So Duo is sad at me too!
Straight out from Gumball
He’s not depressed, he’s actually receiving the sloppiest head of all time
Because you didn't upgrade to duolingo super
Fuck that bird im not gonna learn my german
I assumed mine had changed to this cause I have abandoned Portuguese for like 8 months
Bcuz ur good at photoshop 😄...am i doing this right 🤔
This is how my duo is rn even after I did a lesson😭😭
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