Lemmings

“	i hate lemmings, all you do is die.	„
—Anonymous, [1]

“	Our geography teacher was convinced that lemmings do commit mass suicide.	„
—Anonymous (Protip: Don't ask Geography teachers biologic questions), [2]

Lemmings are creatures that follow each other until death does them part. Lemmings follow their fearless leader anywhere and everywhere. Through rain, sleet, and snow, lemmings will follow. Lemmings place all their faith and trust into their leader. All for one, and one for all is the lemming way. Unfortunately, the fearless leader is generally poor and lacks knowledge and common sense. These naive leaders may led their followers to their deaths, usually via a cliff. Lemmings are often the subjects of video games and political cartoons.

Games

“	(USER MADE LEMMINGS GO "OH NOES!")	„
—Anonymous, [3]

“	Lemmings. Fucking win game.	„
—Anonymous, [4]

Lemmings is a series of games portraying lemmings. These games were released for the Amiga and DOS operating systems and are known for exceeding the standards for games of that age. The lemmings in Lemmings are bipedal creatures with green hair and blue clothing. The goal of the game is to bring all of the lemmings to the exit without any of them dying.

Skills

In order to sent all the lemmings to the exit safety, the player must use various skills. The original game had eight skills. These skills include:

Nostalgia threads

Moar info: Nostalgia Thread.

“	when i was younger there was this ms-dos game... my cousin and i spent hours controlling lemmings and shit. i wish i still had that game.	„
—Anonymous, [5]

“	It was always knuckles from sonic the hedgehog for me. Or one of those fucking lemmings.	„
—Anonymous, [6]

“	I used to play multiplayer Lemmings with my sister on the SNES. She didn't really play games all that much, though she did help me beat Bubbleman in Megaman 2. Anyway, we never really cared about winning, but would just build bridges to nowhere and watch our lemmings die. Of course, then she went to college. I remember we both cried so hard that time. That was a while ago, but I still miss her being around.	„
—Anonymous, [7]

Due to its age and poor graphics, Lemmings are often mentioned within Nostalgia threads. Like anything else mentioned in a nostalgia thread, Lemmings is treated as a vintage of fine wine. Knowledge of this game shows that one is a connoisseur of the fine facets of the 90s.

Applied to human beings

“	Every day, people look more and more like the identical lemmings they are, with hip emo bangs, or the constant cell phones freaking welded to their faces.	„
—Anonymous, [8]

“	The more that you support banning for unoriginal content and lemming like attitudes is the day you start losing the casual visitors.	„
—Anonymous (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST), [9]

Certain humans display lemming-like characteristics. They follow the crowd and do whatever their peers tell them so. In fact, a common idiom used to argue to conformers is "If someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you?" Lemmings dress the same, talk the same, and listen to the same music. Bloggers generally use "lemming" as an insult to people that don't conform to their own beliefs. Linux supporters call Micro$oft fans "lemmings", and vice versa. Republicans call Obama's followers "lemmings", and Democrats call Reagan worshipers "lemmings" as well.

4chan is a magnet for a class of lemmings called Newfags. These lemmings overuse memes and post unoriginal image macros in order to be accepted by the rest of the Anonymous collective, and they usually fail. Lemmings such as those are often blamed for memes lasting for years instead of weeks, and for the last of OC. Scientists has recently discovered lemmings to be a major cause for Internet cancer.