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Do we really call ourselves "lemmings"? I fee like that kind of portrays the wrong image of us.
I mean, it's like voluntarily going by "sheeple" or something. Do people not know what lemmings are anymore?
Lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. The source of that myth comes from a documentary where the documentarians made them jump off cliffs.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
I mean, still. I associate them with the games more than anything. And that's definetily not the kind of look i'd want out of a community that originated specifically because they DIDN'T want to just follow the herd and use what's popular regardless of how shitty it gets.
So embrace it ironically then ;)