YET another TikTok trend has gone viral, this time featuring a penguin from a 2007 documentary who abandoned its colony. Here’s everything you need to know about the ‘nihilist ...
A lone Adélie penguin's trek inland, captured in a 2007 documentary, has resurfaced as the viral "Nihilist Penguin" meme in 2026. Social media users project existential dread onto the bird's rare ...
Social media has had many baleful and beautiful effects on human society. At its best it has knitted disparate people ...
The “Nihilist Penguin” works as a meme because it invites projection. Viewers are not reacting to the penguin’s reality but to their own. In seeing meaning where there is none, the internet transforms ...
A short scene from the 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World has resurfaced online and taken on a life of its ...
The now-viral clip comes from German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s 19-year-old documentary, showing an Adélie penguin walking ...
President Trump's AI-generated image of a penguin in Greenland, featuring a geographical error, has gone viral. This coincides with a resurfaced documentary clip of a lone penguin, dubbed 'Nihilist ...
The post quickly became fodder for mockery because penguins do not live in Greenland or anywhere in the Arctic, instead inhabiting regions of the Southern Hemisphere like Antarctica. Observers pointed ...
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