the hilarious origin of birds arent real

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Well, here's the thing. So, Birds Aren't Real, uh, started off in January 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee. A, uh, a student, I think he was a history student named Peter Macko, was there as part of the, uh, 2017 women Memphis Women's March for, you know, reproductive rights and can we finally get paid the same as men and things like this. This is just, this is literally the same month that Donald Trump uh, was sworn in as president. So, a lot of people were like, "Hey, this is this is a guy who's I mean, he's been accused of rape and now he's president. What's going to happen for women's rights in this country?" So, he's a young liberal guy. He went and over there, here's his group, but over there is a group of proTrump anti-protesters holding up all kinds of signs with really outlandish conspiracy theories even on them. So, as a joke, he walked over, grabbed a blank sign, and wrote, "Birds aren't real." And stood with the proTrumpers and held it up. Well, there were there were news news people there, and they saw this, and they were like, "Oh, does someone actually think birds aren't real? That's hysterical. How stupid are these Trump people?" And so, it took off. It got talked about on the news. Videos of it went viral on uh YouTube. It was just a joke.