What I got from chatgpt:
There’s a long-circulating viral image/video of a lone penguin heading inland from the sea in Antarctica. (picrel)
On January 23, 2026, the official White House account posted an AI-generated image showing President Trump walking with a penguin toward a snowy landscape with Greenlandic imagery, captioned “Embrace the penguin.”
Basically the meme is saying keep going into uncertain or absurd territory regarding Greenland?
The viral footage features an Adélie penguin from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World, walking alone from its coastal colony toward distant icy mountains, approximately 70 kilometers inland—a behavior highly unusual for the species, which typically stays near the sea for food and safety.
While the penguin’s journey has been dubbed the “Nihilist Penguin” meme, it is not a symbolic act of defiance or existential choice, but likely the result of disorientation, illness, stress, or navigational error. Scientists emphasize that such rare inland movements are documented in wildlife but do not indicate broader population crises.
The clip resurfaced in early 2026, gaining massive traction on TikTok and other platforms, often paired with a solemn pipe organ cover of “L’Amour Toujours.” It became a cultural metaphor for burnout, loneliness, and quiet rebellion in modern life.
The trend gained further attention when the White House shared an AI-generated image of Donald Trump walking with a penguin toward Greenland—despite penguins not living in the Arctic—sparking widespread mockery and highlighting the meme’s reach.