
Nihilist Penguin
A lone Adélie penguin from a 2007 Werner Herzog documentary that walks away from its colony toward distant mountains, adopted online as a mascot for burnout.
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A lone Adélie penguin from a 2007 Werner Herzog documentary that walks away from its colony toward distant mountains, adopted online as a mascot for burnout.

A work strategy of doing only essential tasks on Mondays to ease into the week and dodge burnout, popularized on TikTok in 2022.