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When I read duck duck went moby dick I thought this was on the aneurysm posting community.


Makes me think of inspector gadget

Go go gadget moby dick!



This is neat.

Here’s a list of those mentioned here and some I’ve discovered.

What others exist?

Moby dick, Mario, Luigi, Link, Podman, Totoro, Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto, Akita Neru, Sherlock Holmes, Gollum, Yoshi, Pikachu, Charizard, Mewtwo, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Princess Peach

Quite a few as it turns out.

Edit: of course someone created this: DaxDucDex

I’m a little disappointed that I found in Wikipedia it was AI generated:

Throughout 2025, DuckDuckGo rolled out a series of Easter eggs featuring AI-generated images of Dax (DuckDuckGo’s duck mascot) dressed up as characters from popular culture (or on 2 occasions replaced by them) when users search for the respective characters. There are currently 661 discovered pop culture logo variants.[64]

Holy crap!

Honestly, I could have done without the 67 one, though…

Edit. A few more I’ve found that I didn’t see on the linked page. Neo, R2D2, Yoda, Pacman, Morpheus. I’m sure there are more.

Eh the 67 doesn’t hurt anyone. Stupid meme, sure, but it’s not like we didn’t have stupid memes 20 years ago. In this instance the lack of meaning is part of the humour.





The style is weirdly not consistent



Unbelievable. I tried it and it is true!

This brings me copious amounts of joy


Same, it’s wonderful.


only problem is now I am trying to find more

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - nope charlottes web - nope Chester cricket (in Times Square) - nope




Well I’ll be damned…

Does DuckDuckGo have reverse image search? Is it called DuckDuckCome?

DuckDuckCome is not what you think it is.




The other day i have noticed a similar easter egg when typing in “podman”. It’s interesting as podman is fairly niche.

It also works for Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto. It didn’t use to work for Akita Neru but looks like they added that after people pointed out they forgot her lol.

Tried a few characters and Mario, Luigi and Link work as well.

As does Sherlock Holmes and Gollum!



All the Cryptonloids and Gumi work too






Try Hatsune Miku btw




TIL that ducks lay easter eggs :D


"Duck Duck Go Moby Dick" sounds a lot like "Go Go Gadget Moby..." well, guess I'll have to leave that incomplete now


these were all confirmed to be AI generated. dont get too hyped. No one was paid to make this art.

My enjoyment of things is not dependent on some financial transaction happening in the background.

My enjoyment of things is dependent on whether or not it was made responsibly. Using AI to create art instead of actually paying someone to do something and strengthening the economy is irresponsible.

What about all of the other free art out there? People making their own profile pics or just sharing ones for others to use, is that irresponsible art because it does dick all to strengthen the economy?

Whatabout-ism is a great fallacy.

People creating for themselves has nothing to do with a corporation utilizing non-consentual work to train AI data models which lead to the unemployment of artists who are put out of business for not being able to put up the same pace as the bullshit machine. Short term gains mean nothing if you’re fucking everyone in the long term. It’s irresponsible to harvest from a farm without replanting the equivalent of what you took.

your point falls apart when you stop with the black and white bullshit thinking.

You reduced the argument to whether or not someone was getting paid for the art. And I’m just staying consistent: I’ve never given a fuck about copyright before this and am not going to start because AI has changed the landscape. Especially not for little clip art like this that I wouldn’t put much value to in the first place.

And the whole “whataboutism” thing is a deflection used in the final stages of denial about how horrible american imperialsm has been for certain parts of the world, though it worked because it was deflecting what was already a deflection “if the US gets away with all this, then China should be able to get away with some things, too!” When I always thought neither should get away with it, rather than the “only pay attention to the one thing, let’s not talk about that other thing” angle “whataboutism” invokes.

Technology has always been about making it easier to do things so that a more skilled person doesn’t need to be hired to get a better result.

I wouldnt call the technology that is using 1.9 billion liters of water a year, or is causing severe respitory problems for poor people something that is making anyones lives easier. Unless you want to make the corpos who want to sell water and the insurance companies richer. Why you’re relating a known fallacy to US/Chinese imperialism I have no fuckin clue. It was also nice of you to conveintly not say anything about AI actually giving back to people, and not large scale conglomerates.

AI could’ve been responsible, and could’ve been ethical. It wasnt, it isnt. Until it is I will continue to call out when its used.







Are they? Saw them for Linux and gnu too, they don’t seem ai generated

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1poigga/request_completely_human_handdrawn_duckduckgo/

There was also a thread on the fuck ai lemmy com. a few days ago but I’m failing to find it.

Bruh, sad. Can’t wait for ladybug





I wonder if they have one for Candlejack. Oh NO he’s-


I think we can just say “I duckducked”


No one expects duck dick.


Back during the St Louis Blues’ Stanley Cup parade. Brett Hall (Former Blue) who was wasted all the time said “we used to chant ‘lets go Blues’ now it should be ‘we went Blues’.” The DuckDuckWent made me think of that.

Going to blues games and chanting that while intoxicated is a good time



I can’t make this grammar make any sense at all.

I just duck duck went? wtf?

Not sure if I’m over-explaining this or not, but when you go to Google and you search something you say you googled, so this person went to duckduckgo and searched something and they changed the tense of the verb to come up with duck-duck-went.



Also works with smurfs and Donald duck


Works with inspector gadget

Yep, didn’t see that one coming either


Doesnt show up on noai.duckduckgo.com… hm, I wonder why


You know what? Just because of this, I’m going to switch back to DuckDuckGo.

Every 4get instance uses it as a backend anyway.


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