A picture of a duck which appears to have melted on a car dashboard has received over a million likes on Twitter in just 24 hours – and turned a bunch of people into detectives.
The image, posted by Japanese-speaking Twitter user @shiohitoshi, shows a poor unsuspecting green duck appearing to struggle in warm conditions.
最悪マジで。 pic.twitter.com/LyzaXwXa8v
— hzm (@shiohitoshi) July 19, 2017
An instant Twitter classic – it gets better the more you look at it.
However, a few people weren’t totally convinced by the post – embarking on some rather shrewd investigative work.
One thought there was a lack of continuity between the before-and-after images. Is that the same dashboard as the one in the first image?
じゃあこれは？ pic.twitter.com/tMm0Apicra
— 肯定ペンギン∑ (@GS_tyobi) July 19, 2017
Meanwhile, others went to even greater lengths, creating diagrams to try and work out if the dashboards matched in each of the images.
失礼します。別物って言う人にはこう見えてるかも。③は垂直かな…答え合わせほしいです pic.twitter.com/rh5PsCo7r3
— ソウ (@saw_spla) July 19, 2017
Nothing quite compares to the effort put in by this user though, who created their diagrams in three dimensions to illustrate exactly how the duck could have melted.
モデルは少々雑ですが・・・ホンダのザッツっというコメントを元にこんな感じですかね？ pic.twitter.com/A4ibKcLKDX
— めいと(ง ˙ω˙)วMany♥thx! (@jaioki_Nono) July 19, 2017
Imagine having your demise analysed so intensely – poor duck.
At least some less sceptical users merely tried to find meaning in the duck’s tragic fate.
This is a physical representation of how it feels to get turned down https://t.co/TqjdXDYTem
— ham choi (@drew_ogn) July 19, 2017
me with any minor inconvenience https://t.co/aQjmC2AJy9
— Brandy (@blfrazierr) July 19, 2017
You can be sure this will be a meme that’s not going to go away any time soon…
