Hyderabad, Jan. 26 -- In 2007, a penguin chose to walk 70 km away towards a mountain in Antarctica and in 2026, the internet is going crazy behind it.

Unless the penguin took your phone away with it, you are sure to have come across the 'Nihilist Penguin' trend/meme that social media is obsessing over. The clip shows a lone penguin slowly waddling away from its colony, heading straight toward the barren, icy horizon. It is taken from the 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog, showing an Adelie penguin straying from its group into the interior of Antarctica.

What might have been just a rare moment of a penguin straying from its group has now become a global symbol of existential dread, burnout, and the urge...