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I smile when I see this meme because it makes me think of its possible origin in The Incredibles; specifically, a scene where a parrot turns out to be a surveillance drone on Syndrome's island: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zKWXdDt2Q

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Check out the book Island, by Aldous Huxley. Came out in 1962 and the whole island is covered in surveillance devices made to look like birds.

The idea goes back further than that. It goes all the way back to when the CIA invented birds. The references in popular culture are documentaries.

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