Melting Dashboard Duckie Causes Controversy in Japan

July 19, 2017

Source: twitter.com / Via: twitter.com
It seemed like the perfect viral meme — the rubber duckie melting on a dashboard of a moving car in Japan! The days are so hot, the viral meme seemed to resonate with a lot of people, with the duck’s sad little face swimming in a pool of rubber liquid as if it was some kind of weirdo outtake from a Roger Rabbit movie. However, could it have been faked? Could some kind of rubber duckie bandit tried to gain notoriety by faking a melting duckie!?
Twitter users in Japan are pointing out that the dashboard in the first photo is different than the dashboard in the second. Could it be the rubber duckie was a rubber fakie!? Let these insane looking charts and graphics seem to hint at as much…
Source: twitter.com / Via: twitter.com
However, the blog Jalopnik posted the instruction manual to the car (a Honda That’s — not a typo, just the car’s name), showing that the dashboard in question was in fact inside the vehicle. So the duckie — AND STAY WITH ME AMATEUR DETECTIVES, STAY WITH ME — was moved from one dashboard to the other. And thus ends the great duckie debate. What do you think of the melting conspiracy duck? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter at @WhatsTrending.