No meme is born the same way. You never know from which corner a new meme will take place and capture our collective internet imaginations. The latest comes courtesy of a combination of the LA Zoo, Reddit, and Twitter. Allow us to explain. The LA Zoo hosts a Roaring Night series during the summer, when adults can check out animals and botanical gardens after hours with some late night vibes. Following one such night, a Reddit user noticed this gorilla picture.
When the top pic on @reddit is from last week's Roaring Night at the #LAZoo! 🦍 https://t.co/eKDuc3E45X pic.twitter.com/QIoMN6ui1t
— Los Angeles Zoo (@LAZoo) June 25, 2017
As the Reddit user wrote, the gorilla looks like a professor giving an “undergraduate philosophy lecture outside since it’s a nice day.”
But soon the picture caught steam with a slight remix. People imagined the gorilla giving stellar TED talks. The popularity of memes nowadays capitalize on a simple premise, everyone can put their own twist on. Let us be the first to say, the internet succeeded. The Harambe jokes are on point.
"What a lot of people don't get about OK Computer is…" pic.twitter.com/6bu20ypHOV
— Maggie “Go Birds” Serota (@maggieserota) June 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/RamAlbumClub/status/878909220749496320
"Harambe epitomized the performative/discursive resistance of an intersectional praxis against entrenched, privileged power structures." pic.twitter.com/5Thp4jJ4ig
— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod4real) June 25, 2017
So I said to myself, "if this can happen to Harambe, it could happen to me" pic.twitter.com/B0KhT3izMy
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) June 25, 2017
"… but in the end it turns out, the mist was inside me the whole time." pic.twitter.com/90LxO02XEG
— Arby’s Provocateur (@SamGrittner) June 24, 2017
"But the real low point for me came in '97" pic.twitter.com/9fJKKI4RfJ
— Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) June 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/memeprovider/status/878655867469647872
"So basically the gist of the meme, such as it is, is that the gorilla kind of looks like he's holding forth in an I'm-talkin'-here way." pic.twitter.com/IzFrifL6o8
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) June 25, 2017
So in conclusion, don’t forget: If it can happen to Harambe, it can happen to you.
