“How about castrating the image of IS by replacing the faces on ALL the propaganda photos with bath ducks?” a 4Chan user wrote.

Since then, many Photoshop masters have been busy putting the heads of rubber ducks onto images featuring Isil fighters.

An album called ‘creates the duck state’ has been viewed more than 100,000 times on photo-sharing site Imgur.

“Great, now I’m scared to take a bath,” commented one user.