Tech Crunch – Duolingo ‘killed’ its mascot with a Cybertruck, and it’s going weirdly well

Posted on February 18, 2025

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 beloved green bird on TikTok. As any fiction author could probably tell you, killing everyone’s favorite character is not […]