Obituary

Honey Badger was a 2011 nature documentary about the famously fearless Mellivora capensis — a creature that attacks bees, eats venomous snakes, and steals from lions — narrated by a man named Randall with deadpan glee. 'Honey badger don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit.' The internet loved the animal's sheer nerve and adopted the phrase as a life philosophy. The honey badger became shorthand for being unstoppable, unbothered, and wildly out of proportion to its size. It died in 2013, not because the animal stopped caring, but because the joke had been fully absorbed. The real honey badger is still out there, not caring, to this day.

Portrait: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Born

January 2011

Died

2013

Cause of death

Died of not caring

Last sighting

A nature documentary, 2013

Resting place

Section C, Row 10

Category

animal