Eighty bucks on a duckana statue? I mean, just look at my wife’s face. “We live in one of the greatest cities in the world, you know, and anything can bring you joy here. The entire duckana saga is Victoria at its best, he added. I think it’s destined to either become a family heirloom, or when this really takes off, who knows? We may sell it to a gallery or put it in an auction.” When you see something like that, that’s a high-quality heirloom piece. “But also, I mean, as I told quite a few people on the subreddit there, you’ve got to pay for quality art. “It’s undoubtedly the absurdity of it, that’s for sure,” says Martin. People are happy and excited to hear good news,” he said.īut why the duckana? How does an object so absurd become such a magnet for widespread delight? If you put something positive on there, then it’s guaranteed to get traction. Especially around Victoria these days, you heard about housing problems, and you’re hearing about homeless problems and all these things.
“Online in general, it’s often a very negative place. Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.Ī video showing his wife’s joy upon receiving the duckana was shared by countless Reddit users - a welcome distraction, Martin says, from the doom and gloom that tends to overtake the online community. So it was inevitable that she found out and she came out of the shower one day holding her photo to me with the post open…So I pulled it out of its hiding place and gave it to her and she was ecstatic. “You look at the Victoria BC subreddit and that’s all it is, it’s just ducknanas. What I didn’t expect though, was for this post to go so viral,” he said. “My plan was to give it to my wife for her birthday, which is this Sunday, and I had it tucked away in the house and I thought everything would go well. Martin’s own post about racing down to buy one of the last two duckanas was also a hit, generating hundreds of comments, but it also backfired on him. Over the last couple of days there have been countless posts, including Martin’s, celebrating the quirky - or should it be quacky? - pieces of art. “It took off and now there’s memes and GIFs, or however you pronounce those, and people are buying them.” And then me with it, crammed into my tiny Ford Ranger, and posted on the Victoria BC subreddit,” he said. So I took a picture of it, of me holding it and then me at the self-checkout with it. “As soon as I saw the size of it, I knew it was ridiculous. (Submitted)Īnd what better way to do that than a massive statue of a banana with a duck head? Martin (left) worked as a bomb disposal tech for the Canadian Armed Forces for years. Luke Martin proudly poses with a duckana statue he snagged at the Tillicum London Drugs. “She said I want one, and for the life of me, I can’t tell you if she was serious or not. “When I saw the post on Reddit of the ducknana, and somebody making a comment about how you know, with so much panic buying going on, there’s only two ducknanas left, I sent it to her,” Martin said. “SMH all this panic buying,” the poster writes.īut what began as a joke turned into a run on duckanas as some raced to snap up the heavily discounted statues. The ducking madness began with a post on the Victoria subreddit two days ago, showing two remaining duckana statues at the Tillicum London Drugs. It’s not clear where the portmanteau-turned-reality originated, but Dubai has showcased street art of the slippery fowl as far back as 2018.īut on the world wide webbed, people are seemingly discovering the unusual ornaments for the first time.
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