Whats Up with Those Bizarre Retrain as a Swan Posters?
RETRAIN AS A SWAN Two day courses / No previous experience necessary Full Tuition in:   Honking   Gliding serenely   Eating bits of bread   Breaking a mans arm Earn up to 40 working on one of Britains illustrious waterways Book online at Cygnusjobs-4-u.net  The surreal poster was shared especially widely on Facebook  the extent of its popularity is illustrated in the screenshot below, which shows just a selection of examples from 2021 alone:  The text of the flyer offered no direct clues as to its origins, and the website listed on it (Cygnusjobs-4-u.net) was quickly claimed by someone who openly admitted I didnt create the meme.  However, rather than being a mysterious and amusing presence on lampposts throughout the U.K. with an anonymous creator, the flyer actually originated in a fake classified advertisement published by Viz, a renowned British comic book, in February 2020. The ad design could be found in a Feb. 9, 2020, Facebook post by Viz, which is known for its distinctive brand of surreal and off-color humor:  Back in 2020, tweets showed the swan ad in its original context  next to another parody classified ad for a motivated person to be moorhen five days a week, under the Aquatic fowl opportunities section: