This is one of the weirder promotions done by an app in recent months. The company even made a video showing Duo being killed by a Cybertruck.

Duo’, the Duolingo mascot known for his guilt-tripping ways to get people to learn new languages, is dead. He was 3,025 years old. His death was confirmed by the language learning company’s social media accounts on Tuesday.

After hours of nail-biting agony, Duolingo users finally have answers to how the brand's beloved make-believe owl mascot named Duo "died" on Tuesday afternoon. The language-learning app shard a video to Duolingo's TikTok Wednesday showing what appears to be a Tesla Cybertruck ramming into Duo in a parking lot,