I’ve recently joined Lemmy and was reminded of this old fact I used to hear about all the time that lemmings will commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs when they migrate (lemmings being the namesake of Lemmy, I think?).
Do lemmings actually do this? Because I think it would be funny if a social media software was named after an animal that’s literally known for mass hysteria / mob mentality.
What psychopath put this in the script? Did they go on to become a serial killer?
Why did people go along with it? Didn’t anybody say “hey, guys, this is kinda fucked up”?
A guy named James R Simon.
It wasn’t a spur of the moment decision, either. The lemmings were brought from Manitoba to Alberta and put on turntables and repeatedly thrown off the cliff.
It’s super messed up and weird.