On May 27, Harambe celebrated his 17th birthday in the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, an unsupervised 4-year-old child determinedly climbed into the zoo’s gorilla enclosure and fell into the moat.

CINCINNATI, OH - JUNE 2: Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla and her baby outside the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World exhibit days after a 3-year-old boy fell into the moat and ...

After the death of Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo, the rise and fall of "Pokemon Go," the return of past cartoon characters and so, so much more, 2016 was truly a great year for Internet memes.

Like bacterial strains, Harambe memes morphed to thrive in new media, including YouTube memorial songs and a protest sign caught on cable news — Bush, an MSNBC punkster told us in July, Did Harambe.

Here are their best remembrances. ... SEE ALSO: Please don't name April the giraffe's baby Harambe Harambe memes flooded the internet, some of them targeting the Cincinnati Zoo.

Meme History: The story of Harambe the Gorilla, 2016’s most important meme ... Sign up for the Daily Dot newsletter to get the best and worst of the internet in your inbox every day.

For every day in 2016, Select All has picked one meme that either originated, broke through, or reached its height on that date, and done our best to explain it. (We’ll keep updating through the ...

Harambe: Stop making memes of our dead gorilla, Cincinnati Zoo pleads ‘We are not amused by the memes,’ the zoo has said, joining other online voices in asking for the joke to come to an end ...

Funny Harambe memes and funny videos. Posted: March 14, 2025 | Last updated: March 14, 2025. Just when I thought these Harambe memes were dead... Video courtesy of Jukin Media ...

Harambe's death is an outlet for a brand of internet humor that usually feels taboo. The internet has a dark sense of humor. Making jokes about murder is the best expression of that.

Here are the 11 best memes of 2016. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link. The letter F. Chris Snyder. 2016-12-15T14:08:00Z An curved arrow pointing right. X ...

The internet is really relishing these Snapchat hot dog memes It’s Snapchat’s best new feature this year. ... not some grassroots movement like “dicks out for Harambe” or the Gay Babadook.