Nihilist Penguin Meme Template

A single Adélie penguin, very small in frame, stands still on the green, turns, and starts waddling away from you, shrinking as it walks. Over it, a calm German-accented narrator explains that this one "would neither go towards the feeding grounds" nor back to the colony and set off for the mountains instead.

The clip comes from Werner Herzog's documentary shot in Antarctica; it is about forty seconds long.

Shared for quietly abandoning everything and walking off toward certain doom.

• me walking out of my own birthday party
• heading to my 9am on four hours of sleep