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The Herzog penguin meme piggybacked and partially merged with an older right-wing penguin-based meme video from two years ago of a drag queen asking a kid about boys wearing makeup.
The kid responds that boys can't wear makeup, so the drag queen asks the kid who told him that, and this confused child looks around and sees a cartoon penguin on the wall, points to it, and says, that penguin over there.
What do you think about men who wear makeup?
This video and this figure of the penguin has since been used as a symbol for masculine resistance to the LGBTQ agenda.
And this new penguin meme pertains to tap into a uniquely masculine urge, as explained by this TikToker who racked up 42,000 likes.
On January 23rd, the Department of War rapid response account posted, be a warrior, embrace the penguin, with an AI-generated image of five men wearing the uniform of each military branch walking towards the mountains alongside a penguin.
Secretary Kennedy posted a Make America Healthy Again edit of the penguin meme with the organ music over an AI video of RFK Jr.
and a penguin walking to the mountains.
On-screen text reads, The mainstream made us sick.
Choose the healthier path.
The Health and Human Services government account, quote, tweeted this video with the caption, locking in after watching that penguin edit, unquote.
Soy occupied government.
An anti-immigration advocacy account created a viral AI image of a large, evidently prosperous colony of penguins gathered under the banner of multiculturalism.
It reads that as a giant banner.
juxtaposed to a lone penguin facing the mountains and a sign reading, Remigration Now.
Across the pond, the London mayoral candidate for the far-right Reform Party in the UK, Lila Cunningham, copied Trump's version of the penguin meme with an artificial image of her holding hands with a penguin walking towards some snowy mountains surrounding the Tower Bridge in London.
The caption reads, "'Choose a new path for London before it's too late.'"