This scared my housemate too. It’s manipulation to get you to continue, so you buy their subscriptions and/or microtransactions. I love Duolingo, but fuck this manipulation shit.
Scared the shit out of me ngl
Submitted 1 year ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Personally all it did for me was make me uninstall the app years ago (this picture has been appropriated for comedic use)
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fair.
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean, of all the ways to manipulate people into paying money on an app, I feel like changing the app icon to draw attention is fairly benign?
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s a (accidentally? nightmare-fuel) sad face designed to get you back in so you spend money. It might not be the worst thing ever, but it’s still pretty gross. Also the app is used by children.
vox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
well it’s a language learning app so a little bit of motivation can be a great thing for the user
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Emotional manipulation wouldn’t be a good way, especially not a face that scares the shit out of people (I can’t even look at it, as I’m sensitive to uncanny valley and distorted faces, especially the kinds of sad or scared faces 1940s cartoons used to freak you out), especially not so that it can get you back to spending money, and doubly-especially not so that it can get you back to spending microtransactions.
bquintb@midwest.social 1 year ago
They’re always doing creepy shit with that bird
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He just wants to talk with you. In an alley. In the inner city. At night.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In an alleyway. With a baseball bat. Politely.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Spanish or Vanish ad is terrifying. I don’t know how the marketing team got permission to have “I love the taste of human flesh” in Spanish as one of the lyrics in the song.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
huh, the wrinkles go away when I enlarge the image for viewing.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
I know, what’s up with too-old lingo?
FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 year ago
Same, what’s this about anyway? xd
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same. The bird is dying because you haven’t completed a lesson in a long time. He so sad… only you can cheer him up.
Edit: I just completed three lessons and he still looks haggard, so I don’t know what that little fucker wants. Probably for us all to purchase the paid version.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just the newest icon update. They change the icon every once in a while to get people to open the app again.
It has nothing to do with your actual usage.
Robin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have the paid version, I’m on a 109 day streak, and the stupid bird still looks like that. Must be a bug
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Duo is not sad. Just dissapointed. Duo gives you seven days to live
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Looks like they got hit in the head with the notification
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Duolingo regularly changes their app icon to weird things. It’s not done to get users to buy things. It’s so you post the icon on social media as a form a free advertising. The company really loves that their mascot has become a meme and play into it.
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Evil corporate wants us to fucking birdwatch
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good thing birds aren’t real.
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why evil? I’m not a capitalist, but it’s a language learning company being silly; they aren’t causing massive injustice.
Ginger666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The sheeple gotta stop giving free advertising to corporations