X / Twitter users are getting all their ducks in a row, one duck to be specific.
In the past 48 hours, a GIF of a cartoon duck with half-lidded eyes holding a joint in its wing has become beloved on the platform. In the GIF, the duck chuckles to itself and shakes its head. Through repeated use, the clip came to mean something like, "exactly" or "isn't that true." As one user wrote, "is your entire timeline a duck smoking a blunt or do you have normal mutuals."
According to Know Your Meme, the duck comes from a sticker pack made for WhatsApp by GIF artist LIVTORRESEC. The original joint-smoking duck had purple text reading, "HAHA CLASSIC" above it. A cropped version was reposted onto X in 2023, but it's only in the past couple of days that the duck caught on.
Users incessantly post it with resonant lyrics to popular songs or iconic lines from films. For example, someone captioned it with the lyrics to Phoebe Bridgers' 2017 hit "Motion Sickness" — "i hate you for what you did and i miss you like a little kid." Another used lines from Zedd's 2012 track "Clarity" — "if our love’s insanity why are you my clarity."
The Hunger Games fans entered the chat and wrote, "how coriolanus felt after saying snow lands on top" and "haymitch in the audience after peeta said 'if it weren’t for the baby.""
Other users likened the smoking duck to another X user favorite, the blunts and exposing the government girl — the duck was reposted to appear as such. One user posted a side-by-side GIF of the two captioned, "they’re smoking the idgaf blunt." Another created a fancam featuring the duck and the exposing the government girl soundtracked by "Smokin' Rollin'" by Juicy J.
The smoking duck is so popular that users are digging into the GIF sticker pack and posting it doing other activities. In one, it sweeps. In another, it gives a thumbs up.
It's only a matter of time before the timeline finds a new meme to play with.
