Dozens of people gathered outside Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday under the banner of conspiracy theorist group Birds Aren’t Real. The group that believes that none of the birds in the USA is real because the govt has replaced them with surveillance drones, was demanding that the social media site change its logo that features a bird.
People think SF has lost its weird but I just passed hundreds of people protesting that birds aren’t real 🤷🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/L9FKfJbzPn
— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) November 11, 2021
Ahead of the protest, the group had put up posters in the city announcing the same. The poster said that Bird’s Aren’r Real movement is going to hold a “protest demanding Twitter change their disgusting Bird Logo”. It said that every bird is a government surveillance drone and every use of “bird” imagery is intentional pro-bird social programming. The poster included the Twitter logo crossed out, to drive the point home.
4PM AT TWITTER HEADQUARTERS IN SAN FRANCISCO. WE MARCH. HISTORY WILL BE MADE. pic.twitter.com/vrLyLtH78d
— Birds Aren’t Real (@birdsarentreal) November 10, 2021
The demonstration in SF was part of a “Truth Tour” being conducted by the Birds Aren’t Real group in various American states and cities, to ‘inform’ the US citizens that the birds they see are actually government surveillance drones. The movement is led by Peter Mcindoe, who delivers speeches in its various demonstrations.
The Birds Aren’t Real movement claims that the US government used all the birds in the United States using murderous toxins dropped from aeroplanes, and replaced them with sophisticated drones. According to him, the bird drones sit on power lines to recharge themselves, and the bird poop dropped on cars are liquid tracking devices.
Mcindoe claims that the American government is running bird propaganda, because the national mascot is a bird, a bald eagle, and every state in the US has a state bird. “In the States, at least, everything we see is filled with bird propaganda. Our national mascot is a bird – the bald eagle – each of the 50 states in the US has a state bird. With bird mascots, at a certain point, you should start asking some questions,” he says.
Ahead of the protest outside the Twitter head office, Birds Aren’t Real had circulated an email purportedly received from a Twitter official, which said that CEO Jack Dorsey was planning to join the rally, but he had a dilemma. The ‘email’ said that Dorsey is “Buddha”, he spent three days in contemplating the Zen concept of non-action, and he needs his Buddha rest.
🚨 Things are getting interesting. We are one week away from the Twitter Protest in San Francisco. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/HC9fYGTOnf
— Birds Aren’t Real (@birdsarentreal) November 3, 2021
In a video message, Peter Mcindoe had said that Jack Dorsey knows that the birds are not real, and he is a fan of the movement. Mcindoe added that they have nothing personally against the Twitter CEO, but they are only against its logo, which is a clear example of pro-bird propaganda, and a kind of brainwash imagery happening in the country. He also included the CNBC logo that features a peacock, and the US national mascot featuring a bald eagle, with the caption subconscious pro-birdism.
According to an email sent out by the Birds Aren’t Real people, Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter) is planning on stopping by during their 11/10/21 protest in front of Twitter. They object to Twitter’s bird logo, calling it pro-bird social programming…https://t.co/waSmiXRNFR pic.twitter.com/Ku4PvSiCTV
— Matthew Alan Mullins (@MatthewAMullins) November 6, 2021
According to New Statesman journalist Eleanor Peake, who talked to Peter Mcindoe, it is difficult to tell if Mcindoe is serious or joking, but it is almost confirmed that most people that join in the rallies do it for the joke. The social media accounts of Birds Aren’t Real has a large number of followers, but that does not mean they agree with the conspiracy theory, and most of them are there for fun.
However, Peter Mcindoe seems to be serious about the movement. He lives out of his van, which has Birds Aren’t Real and other anti-bird messages written on it, like ‘birds charge on power lines’, ‘every bird is a government surveillance drone’, ‘birdwatching goes both ways’ etc. He insists that he is serious about his theory, and refuted reports claiming that it is an elaborate gag. He said, “I could never relate to that perspective of Birds Aren’t Real being a joke. I think that the true benefit here is the more people realise the 12 billion birds in the skies are all robots and surveillance drones run by the government.”
