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Dolan

A grotesquely misdrawn Donald Duck, speaking in misspelled captions ('gooby pls'), who began on a Finnish imageboard in 2010 and infested English-language comics by 2012. Deliberately awful in art and grammar; the awfulness was the joke, until it wasn't. The record's entry for Finland's other great export.

Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
Overexposure
First sighting
Kuvalauta imageboard, Finland, 2010; a deliberately misdrawn Donald Duck
Life & death · 2009–2027
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2012
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PEAK 2012
BORN · 2010
DIED · 2014
NOW · 2026

Testimony

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Obituary @linkedin_lunatic · Poster 28 Jan 2026

Cause on file is "Overexposure". The fuller version: it was used by exactly the wrong person at exactly the wrong moment, and everyone saw it happen at once.

Correction @mod_asleep · Archivist 1 Sep 2012

The record notes that Dolan is Finnish, not American, and that he preceded the wider 'deliberately bad' style by two years. His friend Gooby is Goofy, and the record will not be answering further questions.

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