Is This A Pigeon Meme Generator
Is This A Pigeon meme generator. An anime character points at a butterfly and calls it something completely wrong. The internet's go-to format for confident misidentification.
Is This A Pigeon meme generator. An anime character points at a butterfly and calls it something completely wrong. The internet's go-to format for confident misidentification.
What is the Is This A Pigeon Meme?
An anime character in glasses and a white jacket gestures at a butterfly and earnestly asks, "Is this a pigeon?" The format lets you label the person, the butterfly, and the wildly wrong identification — making it the go-to meme for calling out anyone who confidently gets something completely wrong.
Also Known As
- Butterfly Meme
- Is This A Pigeon Anime
- Misidentification Meme
- Wrong Label Meme
- Confused Anime Guy
About the Is This A Pigeon Meme
An anime character wearing glasses and a white jacket over a colored shirt stands in front of a building, gesturing toward a yellow butterfly with one hand while looking at it with a completely sincere expression. A subtitle reads "Is this a pigeon?" — despite the answer being obviously no. The meme conveys the confident incorrectness of someone misidentifying something obvious, whether it's calling a clearly bad idea "innovation" or mistaking any mild inconvenience for a personal attack.
From the 1991 anime "The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird." An android character gestures at a butterfly and sincerely asks "Is this a pigeon?" The scene was never meant to be funny — it's a robot learning about Earth — but the internet turned it into the perfect template for confidently wrong identifications. For more confused-energy memes, see Futurama Fry ("Not sure if…") or Ancient Aliens ("It's aliens").
How to Make a Is This A Pigeon Meme
- The Is This a Pigeon template is loaded with 3 text fields: the confused person, the butterfly, and the question at the bottom
- Label the person with who's confused, the butterfly with what they're actually looking at, and the bottom with what they incorrectly think it is (usually 'Is this a [wrong thing]?')
- The person label overlays the anime character, the butterfly label tags what they're pointing at, and the misidentification spans the bottom
- White text with dark outlines reads well over the anime's bright colors. Size the bottom question large so the wrong answer lands
- Confident misidentification complete? Download as PNG or Share to call out anyone getting something obviously wrong
When to Use the Is This A Pigeon Meme
Misidentifying Things
- •Person: my parents / Butterfly: me closing my bedroom door / Is this: teenage rebellion?
- •Person: my brain at 3am / Butterfly: a random embarrassing memory from 2014 / Is this: something I need to think about right now?
- •Person: recruiters / Butterfly: 6 months of experience / Is this: a senior developer?
- •Person: my immune system / Butterfly: a single piece of dust / Is this: a deadly pathogen?
- •Person: me / Butterfly: any basic human interaction / Is this: flirting?
Work & Career
- •Person: my boss / Butterfly: me taking my actual lunch break / Is this: quiet quitting?
- •Person: HR / Butterfly: two coworkers being friends / Is this: a workplace relationship violation?
- •Person: the company / Butterfly: a pizza party / Is this: adequate compensation?
- •Person: management / Butterfly: a new open floor plan / Is this: collaboration?
- •Person: my employer / Butterfly: me leaving at 5pm / Is this: a lack of dedication?
Parenting & Family
- •Person: my mom / Butterfly: me sneezing once / Is this: pneumonia?
- •Person: parents / Butterfly: a B+ on a test / Is this: failure?
- •Person: grandma / Butterfly: me wearing shorts in 60° weather / Is this: hypothermia?
- •Person: my mom / Butterfly: me not answering one call / Is this: I've been kidnapped?
- •Person: relatives at Thanksgiving / Butterfly: me being single / Is this: a problem we need to discuss for 3 hours?
Example Is This A Pigeon Meme
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