Animal Documentary Makers Swan Disguise Joke
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Nobody:
People that make animal documentaries:
Overview
This is an image macro meme. The top text uses the common 'Nobody:' setup, which implies no provocation or request occurred, followed by the line 'People that make animal documentaries:'. The bottom half of the meme is a photograph of a man partially submerged in a lake, hiding inside a large, realistic fake white swan decoy. Only his face is visible peeking out of a small slit in the decoy, and a camera lens juts out of the front of the swan structure, intended to stealthily film wildlife without alerting animals. The joke pokes fun at the absurd, dedicated lengths that wildlife documentary creators go to in order to capture natural footage of animals in their habitats.
Origin notes
This meme was distributed via the RSS feed of the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme. The underlying photograph of the filmmaker in the swan decoy is a real, widely shared image of wildlife researchers using stealth disguises, paired with the popular 'no one / nobody asked' meme format to create the humorous joke.
