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.
Personally all it did for me was make me uninstall the app years ago (this picture has been appropriated for comedic use)
well it's a language learning app so a little bit of motivation to use the thing like every day can be a great thing for the user
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.
The sheeple gotta stop giving free advertising to corporations
Same, what's this about anyway? xd
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.
The notification makes it look like they got hit in the head.
They're always doing creepy shit with that bird