And just in case anyone did not know. Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. … And they apparently also do not fall from the sky, or … explode … WTF! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming
I remember watching a documentary-style YouTube video exposing it, it was crazy and sad. The producers of the original documentary concocted an infuriating cocktail of disinformation and genocide.
But the biggest reason the myth endures? Deliberate fraud. For the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness, filmmakers eager for dramatic footage staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. The images—shocking at the time for what they seemed to show about the cruelty of nature and shocking now for what they actually show about the cruelty of humans—convinced several generations of moviegoers that these little rodents do, in fact, possess a bizarre instinct to destroy themselves.
And just in case anyone did not know. Lemmings do not commit mass suicide. … And they apparently also do not fall from the sky, or … explode … WTF! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming
I remember watching a documentary-style YouTube video exposing it, it was crazy and sad. The producers of the original documentary concocted an infuriating cocktail of disinformation and genocide.
Yep,
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide
Humans are horrible to non-human animals :(
Humans are pretty horrible to human animals too :(
So they don’t use umbrellas or build stairs? I feel cheated! Dumb lemmings.