Documentary footage of a ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ walking toward certain death has gone viral—where did it come from and what ...

Users on TikTok have been posting clips from a penguin documentary that show one lone penguin veering off the path of its herd and heading to the mountains and, very likely, death and danger. And, as ...

A lone penguin’s haunting march in Encounters at the End of the World has resurfaced online, with Werner Herzog’s stark narration turning it into a viral metaphor for loneliness, burnout, and quiet ...

The "nihilist penguin" has been all over social media disguised as some philosphical genius. It's just a confused penguin.

Every few months, the internet latches onto an image that somehow captures a collective mood. In early 2026, that image turned out to be a penguin, quietly, almost stubbornly, walking away from ...

What do you call a seemingly suicidal penguin? An internet meme. It seems like a bad joke, and yet, this true story is causing penguins to really have a moment in the spotlight right now. If ...

In “Penguins,” the beautiful but frustratingly shallow Disneynature documentary, Ed Helms provides the internal monologue for a 5-year-old Adélie penguin referred to as Steve, who is about to embark ...

The Hillsdale marketing team posted a parody of the viral “nihilist penguin” clip, generated in part by artificial intelligence, on the college social media accounts Jan. 25.  The post drew some ...

The penguin does not rush. It pauses, turns its head, looks back at the dark mass of its colony, and then continues walking, alone, towards the mountains. In Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of ...

Unsplash Hillsdale prides itself on being different: No government funding, a small student body, and a mandatory logic class ...

Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, Jaromir Jagr, Evgeni Malkin, Scotty Bowman, Paul Coffey, Ron Burkle, "Doc" Emrick, Gary Bettman and Craig Patrick are among the featured interviews in a new documentary ...

Dhaka, Jan. 25 -- A lone penguin, trekking across the icy expanse of Antarctica towards a massive snow-covered mountain, has unexpectedly become a symbol of resilience and defiance.