What's up with Today's Google Cartoon?

It’s supposed to celebrate the first day of winter, but I’m not sure what they’re getting at.

There’s a bunch of snow covered rocks that are shivering with cold. One of the rock’s eyes are shifting back and forth between a small bare tree and a very small rock(?). All I can guess is that the shifty eyed rock doesn’t understand why the tree is naked, but I dunno, why shift back and forth to the other rock? (If that is a very small rock.)

Anybody got a better explanation?

Ah, you just solved me a question I had!

Google Spain isn’t celebrating winter, but Paco de Lucía’s 69th birthday. So I haven’t seen your cartoon, but I can now tell that mine is different from yours!
And the shifty rock is just because Someone in a higher pay grade wanted the picture to be animated because that is what the Procedure says and the Procedure is the Procedure and the Procedure must be followedommmm… but whomever drew it was sick of drawing snowfalls for winter :slight_smile: But that’s just my guess.

I think you pretty much nailed it.

That winter picture is not showing on the Google Australia page (summer there). Actually they have no graphic.

Google World Sites…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains

The three previous change in seasons has featured the same rocks. Here is the rocks from the first day of spring.

Aussies should be seeing this.

Someone at Google messed up, because that’s only showing in Brazil!

Yeah, I was trying to make it do something, but no luck. Usually the rocks will do something, or something will jump out from one of them. Kinda disappointing.

Yeah, they seem to be having trouble with their Hemisphere doodles. At least today’s Winder Solstice doodle covers the Northern Hemisphere like it should. The Summer Solstice doodle? USA only. The Winter Solstice doodle from the same day? Limited to Australia & New Zealand.