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Is this a pigeon? is an Internet meme and quote of the protagonist from the 1990s Japanese anime TV series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird. The image originates from a scene where the character mistakes a butterfly as a pigeon. The image was originally posted on Tumblr and later the meme spread with other variations.
The meme originates from Yutaro Katori, a human android made by professor Hiroshi Amano, who misidentifies a butterfly as a pigeon while studying terrestrial nature in a scene from Season 1, Episode 3 of The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird, which first aired in Japan in February 1991. [1] [2]
In 2011, the scene was uploaded to Tumblr, spawning many variations and becoming a popular meme. The meme had a resurgence in 2018. [3] [4] [5] On June 27, 2013, BuzzFeed highlighted the meme in their compilation article titled "27 Subtitles That Have Gone Awesomely Wrong." [6] In 2018, the meme returned to prominence on Twitter. [7] In 2021, the meme was also used in The Mary Sue's article. [8]
Mashable described it as a new Distracted boyfriend meme of 2018. [9]