Before Harambe died, he was just a gorilla. Now, he’s meme history. How did a zoo animal become the centerpiece of ironic Internet culture in 2016? The answer involves Black Lives Matter ...

Later in the day, Musk shared a meme from Not the Bee that featured Kabosu and Harambe, a well-known gorilla from the Cincinnati Zoo who died in 2016. "OG Doge has ascended to heaven to be with ...

Since he was tragically killed on May 28, Harambe the gorilla has transcended his lowly origins as some random zoo gorilla. In his afterlife, he has become a superhero, a mega-meme, the internet ...

Elon Musk combined a Twitter joke, a years-old meme and Auto-Tune into ... his enclosure in 2016. “RIP Harambe/Sipping on some Bombay/We on our way to heaven/Amen, Amen,” an autotuned voice ...

That event did not go on to make meme history. But for some reason, Harambe did. Over the summer, Harambe evolved from ordinary tragedy to perfect meme: defined only by its ability to replicate ...

Then Harambe memes took hold of the internet. Among the loudest, or at least the most R-rated, of these memes was “dicks out for Harambe.” The catchphrase is widely attributed to Brandon ...

Innovator Elon Musk had recently released a rap song called “R.I.P. Harambe”, referring to the internet meme which went viral ... some Bombay/We on our way to heaven/Amen, Amen.” ...

(Though more on that in a moment.) I mean that, as a running joke, Harambe should have had a shelf life of maybe two weeks. The meme should have died shortly after the animal did. But it didn’t.

The original flood of angry messages over the killing of the gorilla has turned into a meme mocking those who mourned his death. There are more than 170 petitions on Change.org related to Harambe ...

Benzinga - The iconic Kabosu Shiba Inu dog that inspired the Doge meme and subsequent launch of Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) has died at the age of 18. Tributes for the dog that inspired the community to ...