See why this hilarious prank on National Geographic went viral

The National Geographic Society has been around for well over 100 years, sharing research and photographs about all natural aspects of the planet and is a highly respected body. This may account for the reaction of its Twitter account when one man treated them with a blatant – but hilarious – lack of respect.

Twitter user Ian Sausage – also known as @stephenjmolloy – shared news of his prank like this.

wtf?!!! pic.twitter.com/TAWeOvqMtP

— Ian Sausage (@stephenjmolloy) November 18, 2018

The tweet has picked up 85k retweets and more than 800 reactions, including these.

You deserved to be blocked

— Дуглас (@_Arthos) November 19, 2018

Imagining NatGeo Twitter guy ‘Woah! Hold the front page! We got a dm coming in!’

— Freggio® (@FreggioPhoto) November 20, 2018

But now we know this the ducks could rise up

— #goddamnitpepe (@theonlypepe) November 26, 2018

Quackers pic.twitter.com/BSS62ZheNT

— (@Kin_Kenny) November 20, 2018

Someone named @AdnanZali summed up the interaction perfectly.

Wtf! But you blew their minds, bro! And everyone's for that matter

— Adnan Gh'zali (@AdnanZali) November 19, 2018