It started with a single frame. A penguin, seen from behind, walking across a frozen nowhere while the world behind him did whatever the world was doing that week.

Nobody photographed the drama he left. Nobody needed to. The absence was the joke.

Within days the frame had captions. Within weeks the captions had captions. People pasted him into arguments he had no part in and he refused, frame after frame, to participate.

Scholars of the timeline claim he is leaving a group chat. Others insist he is ascending to a higher plane. A vocal minority maintains he simply forgot where he parked.

All theories are equally supported by the evidence, which is none.

The internet moved on. He kept walking.