Girl breaks the internet with photo of her holding an owl

The image, which first appeared on Reddit, shows a serious-looking girl posing with an owl

Thursday 01 October 2015 12:29 BST

One of the images created by a Reddit user (Reddit)

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The image of a young girl holding an owl has broken the internet after photoshoppers turned her stern expression into a viral sensation.

A photo of the child, looking focused and serious, holding the owl on her hand with her arm raised, proved popular when posted on news site Reddit.

And her iconic-looking pose has now gone viral after the girl’s face was worked into a number of other funny situations thanks to the Reddit community’s photoshoppers.

The girl in the original photo of her holding the owl (Reddit)

Showing the mysterious little girl as the face of the Statue of Liberty, Harry Potter and even an owl herself, Twitter users commended her powerful demeanour, with one tweeting: “She will protect our nation with the power of the owl”.

Here is the rest of the work of the photoshoppers: