In Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World (2007), a penguin is shown leaving its colony. Instead of heading toward the sea and feeding grounds, it turns and walks alone toward the mountains.
Seventy kilometers into the interior. Toward certain death. The documentary offers no explanation. The footage simply observes.
Years later, this clip resurfaced on TikTok. Users posted and reposted it, always with the same caption: "But why?"
The internet called it the "Nietzschean penguin" — an ironic label for an animal that seemed to reject the herd, deviate from expected behavior, and act without justification.
$BUTWHY is not an answer. It's a shared acknowledgment of the question itself — the discomfort of not having a clean reason, and the strange freedom that comes with it.