In Internet culture, a Milkshake Duck is a person who gains popularity on social media for some positive or charming trait but is later revealed to have a distasteful history or to engage in offensive behavior.[1][2][3][4] The term has been connected to cancel culture, a perceived trend of call-out culture on social media, sometimes resulting in celebrities being ostracized and careers abruptly derailed by publicized misconduct.[5][6]
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The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist
12 June 2016[7]
The phrase is derived from a Twitter post made on 12 June 2016 by Ben Ward, an Australian cartoonist using the online handle "pixelatedboat".[7] His Twitter joke describes a fictional Internet viral phenomenon of a "lovely duck that drinks milkshakes" which is then immediately discovered to be racist. Ward stated the joke was partially influenced by the Chewbacca Mask Lady.[8][9][10]
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^"Youthquake' declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries". BBC News. 15 December 2017. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
^"Word of the Year 2017: the shortlist". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
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^Peters, Micah (3 September 2018). "The Rapid Rise and Fall of Doja Cat in the Era of "Cancel" Culture". The Ringer. Archived from the original on 2 December 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
^ abWard, Ben [@pixelatedboat] (12 June 2016). "The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 5 July 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2023 – via Twitter.
^Bromwich, Jonah Engel (27 June 2017). "How a Joke Becomes a Meme: The Birth of 'Milkshake Duck'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 20 December 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
^O'Neil, Luke (24 June 2017). "A Conversation with the Guy Who Invented the Milkshake Duck Meme". Esquire. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^Koerber, Brian (15 September 2017). "Milkshake Duck: We need to stop idolizing unremarkable people on the internet". Mashable. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
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