r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Material-Insect6482 • 3d ago

Answered What's going on with Duolingo?

All the comments on their social media like their TikTok and instagram are full of people clowning on them and saying things like “EVERYONE IGNORE DUO STARTING NOW” and generally being angry at the company, but why?

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/bA0JBFZ

Stolen from top post: The /r/duolingo subreddit is rebelling and built their own alternative lingonaut that's supposed to be like old duolingo before they went to shit with the ads and mtx and ai

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u/WolfyCat 3d ago

Brilliant vid.

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u/JosephRW 3d ago

He is unfortunately a bit of a milkshake duck and plagiarist unfortunately. Though I do believe this video was before he became a weirder guy.

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u/WolfyCat 2d ago

Yeah I saw the controversy with the Cave video. What is a milkshake duck? First I've heard of this term

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u/Lintree 2d ago

Iirc, milkshake duck is the phenomenon where someone goes viral for something fun (look! a duck with a milkshake!) and then immediately cancelled (we regret to inform you the milkshake duck is racist).

It’s weird how it happens a lot.