It has been 8 years since we lost him. Still out
Dicks out! Show some goddamn respect
Remembering the legend
Submitted 6 months ago by AirDevil@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I’ve kind of had a hard time enjoying this meme ever since there caretaker or whatever the term is expressed really being upset from it. Sounds like it was a pretty awful day for all involved
doctordevice@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I sincerely doubt anyone at that zoo didn’t suffer a severe emotional loss that day. That was an awful situation, and while I do think the zoo has the blame it is not because of their decision that day. For the employees, the death of an animal at a zoo can easily cause grief akin to the death of a family member or pet, depending on how closely they worked with the animal.
Once that child was in the enclosure they really didn’t have time to try out different options that may have aggravated Harambe. Any option, including the lethal one, presented a risk to the child. They chose the option they thought gave the best chance to save the child.
Where the zoo has blame is the design of the habitat such that a child could just crawl in. I know they’ve learned from their terrible mistake and changed the design, but they really should have known better in 2016.
AirDevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s fair. It’s the double-edged sword of internet stardom. To me it’s about remembering a simpler time then the world was less of a mess than it is today.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Trump was elected 5 months later, the world was a mess lol
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 6 months ago
I have a hard time enjoying this meme because it's dumb and unfunny. It's peak le epic Reddit thing that we all agree to care about even if no one actually vares about that ape.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I never got the joke anyway. We wouldn’t go “dicks out for Navalny” or some other recently deceased famous person. It’s not very tastefull regardless
Crampon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s just how memes work, no? Something random gets repeated and evolved. It’s funny because its a random occurrence that didn’t really affect anything. But we can play with it as if it did. Like moving a mug in a time travel movie changes the universe.
It’s an absurd and sad situation that gathered enough attention to become a meme. I for my part enjoy some Harambe memes now and then.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
This is also a fair take
Skanky@lemmy.world 6 months ago
rtxn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Imagine growing up and living with the knowledge that your mother’s gross negligence and your being a toddler was the precipitating event of this degenerate level overreaction.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 months ago
For me it was how much hate came down on the mom because her wiggly kid done did a wiggly kid and got somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be, like literally every kid has done at least once
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Sadly you see it in this thread still :/
CodyCannoli@lemmy.world 6 months ago
With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Crap, I missed the message!
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 months ago
DIXOUT
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Death of Harambe, Herald of the Beginning of the End Times.
Smashfire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Does anyone have a wholesome story behind a meme?
AirDevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I post a reminder in a group chat with my friends every year. Someone today asked how the hell I remember it and I told them it’s in my calendar
PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was a freshman in college that fall and someone put up flyers for a memorial dance party in his honor. They had cheap beer and loud music which was fun enough for teenage me.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Happy Cake Day!
Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Harambe died for our sins
paddirn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Harambe, blessed be thy name.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The catalytic for this shitty timeline we’re in
Dicks out, lads
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was always under the impression that it would have been an albatross.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, that’s three under par.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ve not put mine away since