What is the FailWhale?

Fail Whale is a logo screen for Twitter when the micro-blogging site is down. It is designed by Chinese designer Yiying Lu and is currently circulating around the world.

Failed whale

Yiying Lu is currently a lecturer in UTS design. He has been elected as Australia's "Top 100 Emerging Innovation Leaders". On June 17, 2009, he met with Australian Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd) Kevin Rudd at the Australian Parliament Building. Born in Shanghai.

Digital online life is love and hate, cold and ruthless but inseparable. But the design of YiYing Lu, a Chinese designer currently living in Australia, adds a touch of tenderness and cuteness to digital life. The theme is common elements in digital life, combined with cute and funny animals. The little animals are leisurely. The cozy look made people in front of the screen feel a touch of joy and warmth. Yiying Lu's design makes people believe that more tender and humane is the direction of digital life!

Fail Whale (Fail Whale) is the most famous and representative picture designed by Lu Yiying . A group of red birds are attached to a net rope and pull up a huge whale, which is very cute. This picture was used by Twitter, a famous microblogging site, as a picture of an overload failure. When Twitter is overloaded, users cannot see the homepage when they log in to Twitter, and this picture is displayed. However, this funny picture can effectively relieve users' eager mood. Under the spread of Twitter, this picture became popular around the world, with many peripheral and spoofing revisions.

This picture brings a touch of humanity to the people who have suffered setbacks and is now transforming into a

Fail Whale reports have been published on CNN CNN, NewYork Times, NPR National Public Radio, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald, Wired Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, etc. Widely acclaimed.

The hotness of the big whale has attracted many netizens' spoofs