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Meme Parodying Study Finding Urban Birds Flee Faster From Women Than Men

This is a 2-panel comic meme. The top panel is marked "APPROPRIATE": a man in a grey business suit stands in a doorway calling "here birdie birdie" to an anthropomorphic great tit bird sitting at an office desk. The bird responds warmly, saying "AWWW, YOU'RE SWEET." with a small red heart next to it. The bottom panel is marked "INAPPROPRIATE": a woman in a purple business suit stands in the same doorway saying the exact same line "here birdie birdie" to the same bird, who immediately panics, grabs a landline phone receiver, and shouts "HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!". The comic humorously exaggerates the results of a real European study that found urban birds fly away sooner when approached by women compared to men, framing the bird's negative reaction to women as an over-the-top workplace HR complaint.
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here birdie birdie
AWWW, YOU'RE SWEET.
here birdie birdie
HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!

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KNOW THE CITY RULES, APPROPRIATE, INAPPROPRIATE

Overview

This is a 2-panel comic meme. The top panel is marked "APPROPRIATE": a man in a grey business suit stands in a doorway calling "here birdie birdie" to an anthropomorphic great tit bird sitting at an office desk. The bird responds warmly, saying "AWWW, YOU'RE SWEET." with a small red heart next to it. The bottom panel is marked "INAPPROPRIATE": a woman in a purple business suit stands in the same doorway saying the exact same line "here birdie birdie" to the same bird, who immediately panics, grabs a landline phone receiver, and shouts "HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!". The comic humorously exaggerates the results of a real European study that found urban birds fly away sooner when approached by women compared to men, framing the bird's negative reaction to women as an over-the-top workplace HR complaint.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit meme communities, created as a humorous interpretation of a published European ornithological study about urban bird avoidance behavior. It uses a relatable office comedy format to parody the unexpected study conclusion, going viral across multiple social media platforms after its initial posting on Reddit.

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