Is it just me or does the Duolingo bird looks sad/old/tired? What happened to the previous icon?
They recently added some unlockable graphics for the widget. Nothing major.
Guess they changed the icon just for the hell of it while they were at it.
This is the old duolingo icon
Je ne parlé français.
Vous pouvez répéter?
Comme tu dis en français [español]
Mi parolas nek la hispanan, nek la francan.
Oh, I thought it’s because I stopped opening it daily and broke my streaks lol
I’ve been opening it daily and I thought duo was just tired of my bad Japanese…
They change their icon all the time for laughs along with making amusing videos that exploit the memes
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Duolingo became old cuz everyone forgot about them. Tragic ;-;
Attention grabbing apparently.
https://stealthoptional.com/apps/duolingo-icon-looks-sad-old/
Oh, I didn’t know that.
Makes sense. My partner was showing it to me “see? It’s probably because I’ve got notifications muted” unmutes notifications, “no that isn’t it” then I suggested they complete a lesson to see if it changed and it still didn’t, so she put it away. Later I heard that the app notified her that two of her friends congratulated her for starting to again.
It’s a cute program, but wow does it hector people.
Changing the Duolingo icon to look sad, old, and wrinkled is a strategy to make users curious, so they open the app to see if there are new updates or content. In other words, Duo is only trying to get your attention.
This tactic is rooted in the psychological effect known as the “novelty effect,” where new stimuli can temporarily increase engagement and motivation. Snapchat similarly employs this strategy with the red dot and yellow dot on the Bitmoji.
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It just reminded me how long it had been since I’d launched it so I just uninstalled it lmao
Yep. I figured this is what had happened and it definitely worked on me. 🙃
Sooo Duolingo is a tamagochi now
God I hate marketing bullshit like this.
It says it right there. He’s 4+ years old.
It must feed on the blood of oppressed immigrants trying to learn English or it’s immortality will cease
He’s just old.
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Duolingo tendría que implementar un nuevo curso solo para español chileno
zi, wenarda la idea.
They change it all the time for funsies
I’m tired, boss. Tired of bein’ on the the app store, wantin’ to be lonely as an owl in the rain. I’m tired of always havin’ people annoying me, tellin’ me to give them new words. Mostly, I’m tired of people never memorizin’ the vocabulary. I mean, how many times can I give you “Cómo estás?” before you finally remember what it means, Cletus?
There’s too much misremembered - it’s like pieces of glass in my head, all the time, I’ve fed you the entire Spanish lexicon ten times, and you’ve learned three words. Can you understand?
Sorry I don’t understand I-talian
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