When I read duck duck went moby dick I thought this was on the aneurysm posting community.
Samesies.
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
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
Call me when they get The Flaming DuckduckCarrot lol.
DuckDuckGoed
ddg’d
Binged
Ultimately true.
🤮
Bung
Bang*
Duck duck goose → Duck duck goosed
Duck duck go → Duck duck ghost o_0
these were all confirmed to be AI generated. dont get too hyped. No one was paid to make this art.
Are they? Saw them for Linux and gnu too, they don’t seem ai generated
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
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.
Should have started with those arguments because they are the good ones. Or how it’s being shoehorned into many areas where it’s not wanted and likely is there to help improve and disguise data collection. Or how some AI owners are trying to use some of that money to create a computing monopoly to remove alternative options to those unwanted AI-laden products and let them do our computing for us.
Making jobs obsolete is just what tech does over time. Our economic system is more the issue here and makes these things into a problem in the first place. It did if before AI was a thing, what with all the extra productivity without associated wage gains.
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
Totoro!!
I wonder if they have one for Candlejack. Oh NO he’s-
“Duck Duck Go Moby Dick” sounds a lot like “Go Go Gadget Moby…” well, guess I’ll have to leave that incomplete now
TIL that ducks lay easter eggs :D
Now I will spend the rest of my life looking for more hidden logos.
found one
another one!
and another!
Works with inspector gadget
Yep, didn’t see that one coming either
Duckduckwent…
Also works with smurfs and Donald duck
I think we can just say “I duckducked”
No one expects duck dick.
