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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

:shillary: Clinton and her Globalist masters have bowed to China and saved the Giant Panda while abandoning the majestic Gorilla.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37272718

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Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

whaley posted:

i guess from seeing that the vast majority of people who think it's funny outside of this forum are anime avatars with trump hats

I don't follow those people on twitter, but Harambe jokes were huge with a lot of different groups for different reasons. I think one of the biggest was just all the wailing over celebrity deaths this year, so faux grief over Harambe was used to make fun of that, but then took on a life of its own and became funny just for the sake of doing it at some point.

Node
May 20, 2001

KICKED IN THE COOTER
:dings:
Taco Defender
make america ape again hahahaha im out cya

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Right wing groups are actually trash at creating their own memes so they have to steal from others, ruining them in the process.

See: pepe, harambe, the swastika

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
Wasn't Harambe a western gorilla?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Despera posted:

Wasn't Harambe a western gorilla?

On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy climbed into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and was grabbed and dragged by Harambe, a 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla. Fearing for the boy's life, a zoo worker shot and killed Harambe.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8r1Q77ewSg

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

The Atlantic posted:

Harambe is post-everything. Post-normal, atemporal, post-cultural, post-ironic—choose your favorite descriptor of the zeitgeist: Harambe is an entropic heat death anti-narrative that can mean anything while signifying nothing. And perhaps that’s a good thing: any substantive and creative collective response to the weird, no matter how incoherent, is better than a fearful retreat to the normal.

gently caress this guy.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
A person was paid to write that

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Al! posted:

A person was paid to write that

Let me try:

Harambe is the totem we wear around our necks and touch at daybreak to remind us that 2016 has been no dream. Harambe is an anchor, signifying the moment our society found self-awareness and instantly knew that modernity was hosed.


There is no normalcy to retreat to, Atlantic contributor. To truly know Harambe is to know we have long ago burned through the brakes.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
We are all Harambe

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.


The most succinct explanation of Harambe.

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Jewel Repetition posted:



The most succinct explanation of Harambe.

To black twitter it was funny because people cared more about a gorilla than black people

To white people it was funny because it is lolrandom and for some reason???? black people (the funniest lmao) think it is hilarious

Then LATER to the alt-right it was hilarious for reason 1 above but in a way less cool way

Now it's funny because all 3 meme lineages are being dissected extremely seriously by the media, and if black twitter and the alt-right can find one common thread it's laughing at a stodgy media that won't accept any blame for being partially guilty of the breakdown of civil society

twerking on the railroad
Jun 23, 2007

Get on my level

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Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace' part 3 is pretty impressive about tying together Harambe, BLM, and Richard Dawkins.

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