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Duolingo LORE Exists... And It's Actually Creepy!

2025-03-04 Film & Animation
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Thank you to Duolingo for sponsoring this video! Download the Duolingo app here: https://app.adjust.com/1m65f902 *🀫 Subscribe or vanish!* β–Ί https://www.youtube.com/@FilmTheory/?sub_confirmation=1 Wait…Duolingo has LORE?! After many requests from the community, we are FINALLY taking a deep dive into how this language learning app and its owl mascot may not be as innocent as it appears. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ *Credits:* Writers: Forrest Lee, Bob Chipman, Brett Turley Editors: Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick, Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi, Tyler Mascola Sound Designer: Yosi Berman Thumbnail: DasGnomo ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Need Royalty Free Music for your Content? Try Epidemic Sound. Get Your 30 Day Free Trial Now β–Ί http://share.epidemicsound.com/TheFilmTheorists ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ #Duolingo #LanguageLearning #Language #Theory #FilmTheory

Top Comments (10)

@duolingo 2025-03-04

how you gonna expose me like that

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@LilGhost14 2025-03-04

I think we all assumed duo has lore cus the bird is at ur door

6.1k 24 replies
@BatAmerica 2025-03-04

That Owl kidnaps children's parents, if he's a hero that is the plot twist of the century.

3.7k 19 replies
@krettlegon 2025-03-04

He feeds off of my streak. My stress. My mistakes.

3.4k 16 replies
@Helo_Dragons 2025-03-05

It’s ironic that Duo the Owl is infact a Kakapo, a bird from New Zealand, and yet Māori is not offered as a language

3.1k 25 replies
@jaketaller8567 2025-03-04

12:03 Funnily enough, The Owl House has its own parody of Duolingo, as seen in Season 3’s Thanks To Them, where Vee the Basilisk is using β€œThe Scary Owl App” to learn Spanish.

2.2k 17 replies
@Electro-Punk-91 2025-03-04

This probably isn’t even the 10th strangest Film Theory that’s been made πŸ˜‚

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@nim_isnothere 2025-03-05

I RAN back to my computer when hearing β€œKakapo” in a film theory about Duolingo.

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@Eliyanah-GraceMullings 2025-03-28

Duo attacked me with a duolingo ad while I was still watching this video

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@Agreene7274 2025-03-25

They don’t have memory of anything in duo’s warnings either because β€œwe would tell you if we could remember” keeps popping up in my lessons

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