Is This a Pigeon? Meme Generator
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What is the Is This a Pigeon? meme?
Is This a Pigeon? is a screenshot from a 1990s anime. A bespectacled young man in a tan coat raises a gloved hand toward a butterfly fluttering nearby, and the subtitle has him ask "Is this a pigeon?" The mismatch is obvious, yet he's sincere. As a meme, people label the man, the butterfly, and the question to mock someone who confidently misidentifies something, usually because they don't understand it or are seeing everything through one lens.
Origin: The frame comes from the 1991 Japanese anime The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird. The android hero Yutaro Katori, still learning about the world, mistakes a butterfly for a pigeon. The screenshot became a reaction image on Tumblr years later.
Also known as: Is This a Pigeon, Butterfly Meme, Anime Butterfly Guy, Is This a Butterfly.
How to use the Is This a Pigeon? meme
There are three boxes. The first sits over the man: who's confused. The second sits by the butterfly: the thing they're looking at. The third, along the bottom, is the wrong question: "Is this X?" where X is a funny misidentification.
It lands when the mislabeling reveals something about the person, like a manager who thinks everything is AI, a parent who thinks every console is a Nintendo, or a beginner who thinks any error is a virus. Keep the labels short and the question confidently wrong.
Is This a Pigeon? meme ideas
- Engineer / PowerPoint / Is this Photoshop?
- my mom / any game console / Is this a Nintendo?
- the boss / a spreadsheet / Is this AI?
- me after one week of Spanish / any word ending in -o / Is this Spanish?
- new fan / any guy in a jersey / Is this the star player?
- me at 3am / a cereal bowl / Is this dinner?
About the Is This a Pigeon? meme template
The Is This a Pigeon? template (pigeon) supports 3 lines of text. A classic example reads “Engineer / PowerPoint / Is this Photoshop?”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/pigeon/Engineer/PowerPoint/Is_this_Photoshop~q.png
