The German government has entered the world of viral memes by using the “nihilistic penguin” to convey a message of hope about the power of European solidarity.<\/p>\n
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul published an Artificial Intelligence video on his Instagram account, featuring the internet’s favorite bird.<\/p>\n
The post recasts the meme of a little penguin undertaking a lonely journey into the vast mountains of Antarctica as a symbol of European perseverance in the face of great challenges, rather than an expression of existential despair.<\/p>\n
In Wadephul’s video, the penguin is presented as a colorful creation of Al.<\/p>\n
He is shown smiling and walking across an icy tundra. <\/p>\n
Then, despite not having this ability in real life, he soars above the snow-capped peaks.<\/p>\n
The penguin carries a colorful backpack with portraits of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n
The video’s soundtrack includes phrases from the leaders’ recent speeches, including Macron’s “with certainty” slogan from his recent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which has become a popular meme online. \/Telegraph\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German government has entered the world of viral memes by using the “nihilistic penguin” to convey a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,36,1824,4884,2757],"class_list":["post-733832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-great-britain","tag-penguin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115991807418888999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}