Imagine someone who’s familiar with /r/birdsarentreal finding one of these in real life without knowing the punchline

A thing like that could shatter you. Am I even real? Did I create this place? Am I a brain in a storage locker somewhere, and it’s all just made up for me? What are they trying to tell me now, when they show me these things? Am I being tested?

Imagine how the real birds feel encountering one.

As a founding member of the organization Birds Were Real, I resent this conflation of reality. Clearly this is evidence that birds were at some point real but now are not, Birds Aren’t Real is trying to spread propaganda to push a narrative that is factually wrong.

From research and data we can tell birds existed at some point, the fossil record is inarguable, but there is zero evidence that there are any living birds left among the cohort scientists claim as living examples of “birds”. It seems like every other week news comes out about how some flying creature that scientists were previously totally confident was in the bird family is actually a totally different unrelated animal like a bat or a cricket or a flying squirrel.

The Birds Aren’t Real people are absolute nutjobs, they deny the reality of the fossil record right in front of their very eyes, as hard as it is to believe for some, birds did exist long ago in Earth’s history but at some point they all left on a spaceship and never came back (what do you honestly believe Dodos just went… extinct because Europeans slaughtered them all for no good reason? They had built complex aqueducts and developed basic electronics by that point, there is no way they would have just let their bird sect be wiped out, it would be like human beings not developing a masculine culture of war and logic to fight back against saber tooth tigers, not a chance).