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Rotating Duck Wearing Flippers is an image macro meme featuring a GIF of a spinning mallard wearing a pair of blue diving flippers. The image has been edited into a series of video remixes in which the GIF is set to different music (similar to Polar Bear GIF).

Origin

On March 13th, 2013, foroactivo[1] forum user Metemoto Sakamoto published the earliest available version of the spinning duck (shown below). The wrote, "todo internet lo hace el mismo pato estupido."

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The following year, the GIF was uploaded to GIPHY [2] from Tumblr.

On May 3rd, 2019, Timotainment published a video entitled "The Duck," which added the GIF to other videos. The post received more than 44,000 views in less than one year (shown below, left).

Nearly a year later, on March 6th, 2020, Redditor [3] Paranxipress used the GIF as a reaction to the caption "Some girl: *is giving me obvious signs that she likes me.*" The post received more than 18,000 points (97% upvoted) in less than

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External References

[1] Foroactivo – Metemoto Sakamoto's Post

[2] GIPHY – Duck GIF

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