The Butterfly Man meme, widely known as 'Is This a Pigeon?', originates from a scene in the 1990s Japanese anime series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird. In the scene, an android character named Yutaro Katori points to a butterfly while attempting to identify Earth's organisms, mistakenly asking if it is a pigeon. The image first gained viral status on Tumblr in 2011 before a massive resurgence in 2018. It is used globally to represent total confusion, poor comparisons, or the act of being confidently wrong about something obvious.