Do lemmings actually commit mass suicide?
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.
James R. Simon. Cinematographer: Perris Abenteuer. James R. Simon was born on 13 February 1908 in North Platte, Nebraska, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Perris Abenteuer (1957), Disney-Land (1954) and Abenteuer der Natur (1975). He died on 4 August 1973 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.
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