It all started with a happy green parrot and a guy who should have been studying instead of browsing Imgur. On the evening of July 29, hot on the tails of “upvote everything day,” an Imgurian called IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur decided to embark on a mission to get only one GIF to Most Viral.
Initially he was met with confusion and annoyance, but soon others began to join his cause.
Helping IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur make his dream come true
As the parrots rose the ranks, even more Imgurians heard the calls, and more parrots were posted.
And so and so on until eventually it was really happening. An avian swarm had taken over Imgur and everywhere you looked was that dastardly green parrot.
While the feathers were flying, prinnnneh decided to turn the chaos into something great. They made a post bringing awareness to the happy little green guy, which, as it turns out, is actually not a parrot at all. It’s a Kākāpō, and it’s highly endangered.
“Nothing can prepare you for a meeting with a kākāpō,” the post begins. “Not even an entire front page of them happily shagging a graying faux fro narrated by Stephen Fry. These weird creatures are, without doubt, one of the most remarkable birds in the world. But they need our help to survive.”
In just three hours, a conservation group called Kākāpō Recovery had received over $3,000 in donations from the Imgur community! The comments were covered in happy Imgurians thankful for the knowledge sharing.
If the parrot GIF takeover brought you a laugh or two, head over to kakaporecovery.org.nz/donate to see how you can help. All donations go directly towards kākāpō recovery and making sure these little buggers will be around for a long time. And, for that, we have only one perfect reaction…
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