{"id":1196489,"date":"2022-01-07T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196489"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:50:15","slug":"viral-video-birds-arent-real-founder-barfs-on-tv-anchors-barely-control-losing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viral-video-birds-arent-real-founder-barfs-on-tv-anchors-barely-control-losing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Video: \u2018Birds Aren\u2019t Real\u2019 Founder Barfs On TV, Anchors Barely Control Losing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fviral-video-birds-arent-real-founder-barfs-on-tv-anchors-barely-control-losing-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196489&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Appearing on Chicago\u2019s WGN9 News, the founder of the \u201cBirds Aren\u2019t Real\u201d parody movement based on conspiratorial theories, Peter McIndoe, created a viral moment by upchucking a cup of coffee directly toward the camera.<\/p>\n<p>McIndoe, a college dropout who founded the movement in 2017, told WGN anchor Larry Potash, \u201cGen Z is full of some amazing men, women and children who are aiming for change, and I think that that is just what our movement\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potash pointed out, \u201cBut it\u2019s more than just Gen Z\u2019s falling for conspiracy theories; why\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that point McIndoe upchucked all the coffee in his mouth directly into the camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou all right?\u201d Potash asked solicitously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God. I\u2019m so nervous. I\u2019m so sorry,\u201d McIndoe managed, still retching his guts out while the screen hurriedly switched to videos of people with signs reading \u201cBirds Aren\u2019t Real\u201d and \u201cNot Without A Fight\u201d while McIndoe could still be heard heaving.<\/p>\n<p>The screen cut back to Potash saying, \u201cWell, we hope you\u2019re okay. Why don\u2019t we give you some time to collect yourself. If you need help let us know in the control room there and we\u2019ll get back to you if we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning back to weather anchor Paul Konrad as he and fellow host Robin Baumgarten couldn\u2019t help laughing, he continued, \u201cWell, Paul, let me tell you something. Is there any weather today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Konrad answered, \u201cI\u2019m not even sure what happened there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baumgarten interjected, \u201c I don\u2019t know \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potash explained, \u201cHe was choking on his coffee. It\u2019s not easy to be on TV, Paul, some people, gets them nervous \u2026 I just hope that that young man is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, me too,\u201d Konrad agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Potash concluded, \u201cAll right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baumgarten, \u201cEhhhhh \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is incredible, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WGNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WGNNews<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J3h9ebRE9g\">pic.twitter.com\/J3h9ebRE9g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timjhogan\/status\/1479266356759793665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/09\/technology\/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html\">reported<\/a> in December:<\/p>\n<p><em>On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren\u2019t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral, adding:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Last month, Birds Aren\u2019t Real adherents even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWMg0_Tv55T\/\">protested outside Twitter\u2019s headquarters<\/a>&nbsp;in San Francisco to demand that the company change its bird logo. The events were all connected by a Gen Z-fueled conspiracy theory, which posits that birds don\u2019t exist and are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans. Hundreds of thousands of young people have joined the movement, wearing Birds Aren\u2019t Real T-shirts, swarming rallies and spreading the slogan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although he started the movement to look as though it was serious, McIndoe later admitted it was a parody, saying, \u201cDealing in the world of misinformation for the past few years, we\u2019ve been really conscious of the line we walk\u2026.The idea is meant to be so preposterous, but we make sure nothing we\u2019re saying is too realistic. That\u2019s a consideration with coming out of character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirds Aren\u2019t Real is not a shallow satire of conspiracies from the outside. It is from the deep inside,\u201d he continued. \u201cA lot of people in our generation feel the lunacy in all this, and Birds Aren\u2019t Real has been a way for people to process that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on Chicago\u2019s WGN9 News, the founder of the \u201cBirds Aren\u2019t Real\u201d parody movement based on conspiratorial theories, Peter McIndoe, created a viral moment by upchucking a cup of coffee directly toward the camera. McIndoe, a college dropout who founded the movement in 2017, told WGN anchor Larry Potash, \u201cGen Z is full of some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}