Birds with human arms have a long history.

Though I am new to the phenomenon, I’m confident when I tell you that people have been making images of birds with human arms for eight years and in that time no one has so much as intimated the reasoning behind birds with human arms.

Nonetheless, I believe there’s a value in chronicling the history of this majestic art form.

2008

On August 11th, 2008, Reelapse.com form user “Black Jacques” created a thread called “Post pictures of birds with arms.” “Black Jacques” included an image, but it has since been erased from the internet, leaving in its place the “dead image” icon.

As far as I can tell, this was the first human-armed bird, though this fact has been vaguely disputed on Reddit.

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