About

Dangerous Crow Boy or Dangerous Crow Boy Whose Job Is To Destroy Plastic is a series of memes about the book The Company of Vengeful Crows: Season of the Crow by Lana Pecherczyk, the 10th entry in her Fae Guardians series of romantasy novels. The book, also known as Plastic Girl vs. Dangerous Crow Boy, follows a "crow shifter" named River who can "destroy plastic" and falls in love with an Australian, human woman, Blake Hartley. The book is set in a post-apocalyptic world where magic is attempting to rebuild the world, but it cannot flow near plastic and metal. In late August 2025, Pecherczryk made a post on TikTok advertising the book, which was reposted to Tumblr in late September, inspiring memes poking fun at the idea of the "dangerous crow boy whose job is to destroy plastic."

Origin

On August 29th, 2025, author Lana Pecherczyk posted a video to her TikTok^[1] page, @lanapauthor, advertising her book The Company of Vengeful Crows: Season of the Crow.^[2] The video starts with an image of Blake Hartley, one of the book's protagonists and love interest of protagonist River, under the caption, "What happens when you stumble into a fae world wearing sparkling, forbidden 'plastic' clothes?" River then appears from the right side of the screen and holds Blake from behind, his hand on her breast, under the caption, "A dangerous crow boy whose job is to destroy plastic becomes obsessed with you." The video gained over 70,000 views in a month.

On September 21st, Tumblr^[3] user lesbonoi posted screenshots of the video without any additional context, garnering over 40,300 notes in just over a week.

Spread

The premise of the book became the subject of memes on Tumblr over the following days. The author, Lana Pecherczyk, embraced and celebrated the memes, updating her book's FAQ^[4] page to answer questions pertaining to the memes and book itself.

In one section, she answers how River, the crow boy, destroys plastic, writing, "The Guardians have powerful magic and can melt/smelt/disintegrate/obliterate and all sorts of shit like that to destroy the forbidden substances."

On September 23rd, 2025, Tumblr^[5] user sixquarksinatrenchcoat posted, "It's all fun and games with the dangerous crow boy til u realize that the latex condom counts as plastic too. Soon you'll be laying an egg," garnering over 32,000 notes in a week.

That same day, Tumblr^[6] user squidong started posting excerpts from the book as she read it, garnering over 51,000 notes in the same span of time.

On September 25th, Tumblr^[7] user doublevampires made a text post referencing the They Don't Know meme about the dangerous crow boy, garnering over 19,000 notes in five days.

Later that day, Redditor u/Lemon_Lime_Lily posted screenshots of squidong's shared excerpts to the /r/CuratedTumblr^[8] subreddit, garnering over 1,900 upvotes in five days.

On September 27th, 2025, Tumblr^[9] user awoo-ga made a post sharing two costumes that could be used to dress up as Plastic Girl and Dangerous Crow Boy for Halloween, garnering over 40,000 notes in three days.

On September 29th, Tumblr^[10] user fixaidea posted, "Bahh. I see how it is. When the dangerous crow boy eats plastic he’s ‘doing great’ and 'doing his job’, but when I, the humble housecat…!" garnering over 4,200 notes in a day.

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