But Duo looked different then. The original Duolingo logo featured a 2-D owl whose eyes and mouth spelled out “DUO.” A year later, the first 3-D version of Duo was released with a realistic ...

The Duolingo mobile app displays the "Dead Duo" logo on Feb. 11, 2025. Many of the top comments on the TikTok video were left by brands, weighing in on the news. “What was it all for tho?” ...

Corporate mascots may just have one of the most precarious jobs in marketing. The latest casualty: the Duolingo owl, a sassy multilingual bird who met his tragic fate after a car accident.

Duolingo’s mascot, Duo the owl, is dead. Okay, Duo isn’t really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this ...

But Duo looked a bit different then. The original Duolingo logo featured a 2-D owl whose eyes and mouth spelled out "DUO." A year later, the first 3-D version of Duo was released with a realistic ...