--- title: Olympic Closing Ceremony: Puppet Sparks Internet Freak-Out description: The Internet took some time out of the final night of the Olympics to have a mini freak-out over a puppet featured in the closing ceremony. canonical: https://time.com/5175064/olympic-closing-ceremony-human-faced-bird-reactions/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-26T05:04:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:56.014Z og:title: Human-Faced Bird at the Olympics Freaked Out the Internet og:description: The memes of the puppet are pretty fun og:url: https://time.com/5175064/olympic-closing-ceremony-human-faced-bird-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b2f8a620b39f3dd/698928d48fd2ee0a8435ad1a/human-faced-bird.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: OLY-2018-PYEONGCHANG-OPENING og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Human-Faced Bird at the Olympics Freaked Out the Internet twitter:description: The memes of the puppet are pretty fun twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b2f8a620b39f3dd/698928d48fd2ee0a8435ad1a/human-faced-bird.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Human-Faced Bird at the Olympic Closing Ceremony  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 26, 2018 5:04 AM UTC  Participants perform during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games Participants perform during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic GamesCHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 26, 2018 5:04 AM UTC The Internet took some time out of basking in the glow of the [final night](http://time.com/5175048/martin-garrix-olympics-closing-ceremony-dj/) of the [2018 Olympics](http://time.com/5174878/beijing-pandas-olympics-2018/) to have a mini freak-out over a puppet featured in the [closing ceremony](http://time.com/5174862/ivanka-trump-olympics-closing-ceremony-reactions/). Known as Inmyeonjo, the human-faced bird—which appears in ancient cave drawings from the Goguryeo period of Korean history—first made waves during the Winter Games opening ceremony when viewers couldn’t decide whether they were scared of or in awe of the unique animal. However, this time around, Inmyeonjo fans just seemed excited for the puppet to return, especially when it began dancing to EDM in PyeongChang Stadium. One particularly enthusiastic viewer even went so far as to photoshop the face of famed DJ Martin Garrix—who was performing at the ceremony—onto the bird’s original human face. Garrix is one of only a few electronic music artists to perform at the Olympics, joining the ranks of Tiesto and Kygo, who played in 2004 and 2016, respectively. > [](https://twitter.com/KoreaExpose/status/967749504635031552) > [](https://twitter.com/nacho%5Fnachocho/status/967769306741157888) See some of the reactions to Inmyeonjo below. > [](https://twitter.com/josungkim/status/967747120231886848) > [](https://twitter.com/3choiprodigy/status/967787842918322176) > [](https://twitter.com/woodwinds/status/967747308275167234) > [](https://twitter.com/dkdktv92/status/967746784272371712) > [](https://twitter.com/rookling/status/963049622943002627) > [](https://twitter.com/veryemployable/status/967746688936042496) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5175064/olympic-closing-ceremony-human-faced-bird-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5175064/olympic-closing-ceremony-human-faced-bird-reactions/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Human-Faced Bird at the Olympic Closing Ceremony","datePublished":"2018-02-26T05:04:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:56.014Z","description":"The puppet first made waves during the opening ceremony","url":"https://time.com/5175064/olympic-closing-ceremony-human-faced-bird-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b2f8a620b39f3dd/698928d48fd2ee0a8435ad1a/human-faced-bird.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b2f8a620b39f3dd/698928d48fd2ee0a8435ad1a/human-faced-bird.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"OLY-2018-PYEONGCHANG-OPENING","caption":"Participants perform during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games","creditText":"CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5175064/olympic-closing-ceremony-human-faced-bird-reactions/","name":"The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Human-Faced Bird at the Olympic Closing Ceremony"}}]}] ```