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Did you know that the Twitter fail whale illustration was created eight years ago? You can learn about the origin of the whale in this interesting interview of Yiying Lu, the Australian artist who created it. Here’s how she explained the fail whale illustration:

“Lifting a Dreamer” originally featured an Elephant, drawn with pencil! I wanted to create a visual greeting – a visual ‘comfort’ for my friends back home for all the events that I was missing! I also included this image on my website’s homepage, and I would use MSN to send it to friends and family when I could not attend their birthdays and graduations and parties. Basically, I had this giant wish that is so heavy (the elephant), and the birds represented my free spirit and good wishes…”

As of today (Wednesday, July 14th), you can see and buy her Twitter and other art at LTL Prints.

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