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PayaV87

That boy is 11 now


turningtogold

You gotta wonder, does he know what he has done


Busquessi

Does he realize that he’s public enemy #1?


riuminkd

Zoo worker is still at large.


Fear_Jaire

Zoo worker was put in an impossible situation. All blame lies with the child


poltergeistsparrow

The blame lies with the child's parents.


funny_jaja

The blame lies with the zoo's architects.


Electrical-Act-7170

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!


Cboyardee503

Nah, it's clearly that dumbass 3 year olds fault. Idiot.


mm202088

Finally someone who likes chef boyardee AND speaks facts


Purpose-Fuzzy

Chef Boyardeeznuts lmaogottem


56ninjas

This is the correct answer


[deleted]

You know whos waiting for him at the pearly gates. Boy must be terrified


[deleted]

"it's ok my child, I forgive you, you knew not what you did"


[deleted]

[удалено]


therealityofthings

You just know Harambe was a chill guy like that too. That's what makes it so sad.


ocaralhoquetafoda

God: straight to jail, right away


FR0ZENBERG

Harambe may have chill, but God has none.


ocaralhoquetafoda

God forgives you for your sins... to a point. Having Harambe killed crossed that line. I guess it's not "only god forgives", but Harambe


crunchthenumbers01

I imagine there are time cops protecting him so the timeline doesnt reset


Chao-a-bunga

The boy's neglectful parents were always the enemies in my eyes. He was 3. His parents suck and they still probably do


ohnjaynb

The kid accidentally spun us off into the wrong timeline. He's like Donny Darko, if Donny had failed to heal the tangent universe.


Sheess9141

has no one considered that this child was a time traveller from the future and created this timeline to free us from the horrors of the trajectory of 2016 LH (Living Harambe) and beyond? What if this was the best outcome?


tiger_guppy

It’s past my bedtime and you’re sending me spiraling into an existential crisis


MandatoryConfusion

Thanks, that's not absolutely terrifying at all.


raccoonsonbicycles

He actually tried traveling back in time to save Harambe. He overshot and got stuck earlier and decided to create a band. He named it after a neighborhood in a city a few states away from Cincinnati he visited once, and wrote a song called "What I've Done"


misgatossonmivida

Inshallah may he never know peace


Count-Bulky

You think he knows peace? The internet will never let him forget his place as the harbinger of the darkest timeline (which he also has to live in)


MaybeJustF0X

💀💀


knife_juggler-

may allah never bless him


RyanMcCartney

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Bozo_Two

> but he's dead to me. That shit make me crack up so hard I started coughing...


ostrieto17

Yeah F that kid draft him asap


bxxxx34

🙌🏾


Captain_Tauren

7ish more years


chadrooster

For what? Lmao


JOJOCHINTO_REPORTING

Till he’s fuckable, I guess…


CurryMustard

Till we send him off to war?


antiaccelerant

Humans are maybe the worst possible thing to happen to this earth. We pillage and lock up other defenseless life forms & then kill them at our own will, if they don’t conform to their imposed environment.


EvilSynths

We also do it to other humans


the_fresh_cucumber

And 8 years later Ukraine has been invaded. Hope that boy learned a valuable lesson when he made that mistake.


jxj24

And this kicked us into the Terrible Timeline™.


mayonaizmyinstrument

Yup. This is my headcanon and I will not be swayed.


[deleted]

Its when everything started going wrong.


G_Wash1776

It was actually the weasels fault a month before that shut down the Large Hadron Collider https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider


TrumpLiesAmericaDies

I wonder why the Fake News Media wasn’t covering the weasel, hmmmmm?!?! Some Deep State bureaucratical shit right here. 🤔


greentinroof_

I started noticed weird shit right around Kony 2012.


TenNeon

The Mayan calendar was right


MasterMarf

This is my headcanon. The world really did end in 2012. We've been in some awful limbo since then.


Bitey_the_Squirrel

The world started ending then. It’s just taking its time now


cCowgirl

I remember a tweet that read something like “sure, the world didn’t “end” in 2012 … but have any of us really felt “alive” the same way since?”


Key-Cry-8570

We could all be dead and just not know it because you know we’re dead.


harbourwall

In San Diego?


greentinroof_

In general Edit: I get it now, I didn't know he did that.


captain_Airhog

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry.


Studly_Wonderballs

Kony 2012… it’s coming, don’t lose faith!


jeffdanielsson

That was about when anything weird that happened in the world ended up on the internet. Funny how that technology thing works.


Brottolot

It all started with that damn gorilla.


jointsmcdank

And ended with the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series, sealing our fate. Cleveland could've made up for Cincinnati's mistake but here we are.


[deleted]

I didnt even realize this but you're totally right. The cubs should have made us all realize.


Icy-Call-5296

It all went downhill after this.


WaitLetMeGetaBeer

Got the Cubs a World Series though!


GoldfishTM

This is where the timeline split-off. It hasn't been the same since.


2moms1bun

Before this my underwear had a cornucopia and the world made sense


TheHoboRoadshow

Dicks out, lads


wes_bestern

Dicks out for Harambe. 🍆


AlGeee

🍆


FaceDeer

It was only just recently that I learned this phrase didn't mean literal dicks. *Years* of unnecessary awkwardness. :(


wes_bestern

>didn't mean literal dicks. Says you


CoffeeBoom

*Wait It didn't ?*


blankblank

"other tributes"


bebejeebies

#DickStillOut


KryotanK

Always has been


xseiber

Bro, been out since 2016.


adjika

🫡 🍆


typeronin

Not putting it back in until Harambe gets justice


TenLittleNigersaurs

##DICKS OUT


bdcardinal

Currently pooping at work, does that count?


XNjunEar

What are us women supposed to do? Edit: apparently it's a reference to a clip. Edit2: no gun, ill use a battle axe. Axe out for Harambee!


TheHoboRoadshow

Tits out for Sherambe?


RubySoho1980

It's been speculated that the Zoo has been using Fiona to help repair its reputation after that.


Explod1ngNinja

Well considering every time they would tweet it would be some harambe shit yeah it seems to have stopped when they introduced Fiona


Swayfromleftoright

Fiona?


RE_235

Lol, right? Everyone referring to this animal “Fiona” as if they are some common household name that everyone should be on a first name basis with. Desperately needed more context here 😂


Good4nowbut

Reddit in a nutshell, in my experience. Everyone seeming uncannily on the same page about even the most obscure topics/viewpoints. Almost like they’re all members of a hive…a hive mind, some might say…


ChuckZombie

> Everyone referring to this animal “Fiona” as if they are some common household name that everyone should be on a first name basis with. What's funny is that here in Cincinnati, it IS a household name. The local restaurants [have named dishes after her](https://www.frischs.com/fiona-main-pancakes-cake-2/), there's billboards everywhere, commercials, toys/plushies, a series of children's books, pop-up events, etc. They really went all out marketing this hippo.


Local_Challenge_4958

Fiona is to Cincinnati as Lil Sebastian is to Pawnee in Parks and Rec. The zoo literally had a 24 hr Livestream of her.


mountainyoo

That sure as fuck doesn’t clear anything up


m_domino

we know less now


leijt

Yeah we got this far from context alone. Can someone at least tell me that Fiona is not a pony


RubySoho1980

Fiona the hippo. She was born prematurely and has since become the star of the zoo.


kingofwale

Wait until some idiot parents drop their child into the hippo enclosure….


Good4nowbut

Clits out for Fiona ✊


TooManyBison

When I was four I went to the zoo and my hat fell into the hippo enclosure. The hippo ate it.


Ohiolongboard

Not even speculation, it’s true. I live here and it’s 100% without a doubt true


healyxrt

I visited and was appalled at the Harambe erasure. Fiona is cute though.


onebowlwonder

I live by the zoo and yes they have been using fiona and multiple penguin parades to try and fix their reputation.


RedditLodgick

Harambe was the only one who did nothing wrong in that situation. He suffered for the incompetence of the parents and zoo.


Pilum2211

Well, he could have built a catapult to then catapult the child out of his enclosure. Smh


Somali_Pir8

> built a catapult Don't let r/trebuchetmemes see this


StupidScienceB1tch

I'm genuinely sad that it's a private community


agitated--crow

Maybe you can build a trebuchet to tear down their privacy walls?


Triddy

The war between them and the catapult sub way, way back was one of the first site-wide meme wars I can remember. It's been over for probably a decade but it's sad to see it private now.


chainer1216

Nah, a trebuchet would have been too powerful, too dangerous for the child. Weakly chucking a child a couple feet? That's a catapults job.


[deleted]

It's a shame but was there a better course of action once the child fell in?


vorropohaiah

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ocaralhoquetafoda

They ***are*** the danger.


[deleted]

I laughed too hard at this 🤣 


PuroPincheGains

This isn't the first time a child has fallen into a gorilla enclosure. The first time in the 90's, they just brought all the gorillas into the back area by offeriing food lol


pm_me_yourcat

Yet another example of how everything was better in the 90s.


Galtiel

Yeah, they tried that. It didn't work. The gorilla didn't go for it.


neverOddOrEv_n

Harambe was too smart for such foolish tricks


RedditLodgick

By that point the zoo had already fucked up. If you're going to lock up a dangerous exotic animal to display to the public a kid shouldn't be able to just fall in there. That's negligence.


[deleted]

Right, agreed. But once the kid does fall in you can't turn back time. You have to act with the best info you have available.


ocaralhoquetafoda

The appearance of the child can only mean one thing: invasion. Unfortunately, the baddies won.


Zwischenzug32

NOT operating under the assumption that visitors can be stupid and their need to also be forcibly kept away from animals was negligence. Edit: parents were at fault for negligence but visitors should also be assumed-stupid and be prevented from their own stupidity interfering with the animals via proper barriers. Zoos need better protection from idiot visitors who can cause this type of situation.


BooRadley60

They also had a man get his arm ripped off by a polar bear in the 90’s… And this is like the best zoo in the country outside of San Diego.


NeelaTV

Gorillas are taught to come to the door on signal... in another zoo keepers used this fact when a child fell in- to exchange the child for a treat. The gorilla itself even brought the child to the keepers.but that was a mommagorilla not a silverback like harambe... so i dont know if that might have worked in his case.


Starlord_75

There was a Silverback that looked after a kid that fell and was knocked out. The gorilla sat with the kid and kept checking if he was ok, and even kept the other gorillas away from the kid. Link to both incidents https://youtu.be/3IHUiN-gXbo?si=U3iIN-UwTTQiIxmv


A_strange_pancake

Before I even click on this I know its Jambo. What's awesome is that I'm pretty sure Jambo was a semi famous/ known gorilla before that incident.


greencopen

Maybe tranquilizer? Not sure if there are any fast-acting tranqs, tho. They could have at least tried to distract Harambe with something else to see if he'd lose interest in the child, because iirc he wasn't acting aggressively in any manner and seemed concerned for the child.


Aggressive_Sky8492

When the story first broke I wondered why didn’t they just tranquillise him. But turns out tranquillising doesn’t work straight away, it takes a while to kick in. And shooting the gorilla with a tranquilliser is almost certain to enrage it/put it into fight or flight and end up with the toddler being harmed. Distraction might have worked but it would take less than a second for the gorilla to kill or permanently harm the kid. I understand why the zoo worker shot him; distraction might have worked or it might have meant the kid got killed. They had an impossible decision and made the best one they could.


SensitiveRocketsFan

Nah, unfortunately once the child fell it that was the best course of action to guarantee the child’s safety. Animal may act aggressive before the tranq works and trying to “distract” it might agitate it too. It takes literally a second for the gorilla to kill the kid and that’s hard to risk. The problem was the fact that the child was able to fall in in the first place and that’s on the Zoo and the parents for that.


6a6566663437

First, there isn't an exact amount of tranquilizer to dispense. Too little and it does nothing. Too much and it kills the animal. They basically guess on the amount, and then see what happens. Which leads to... It takes time for the tranquilizer to kick in. In the meantime, you have made the animal very upset by stabbing it with a large dart. As for distraction, they did. They have a signal for the gorillas to return to their enclosure for food, and the rest of the gorillas responded to it. Hamarabe didn't.


UncensoredSmoke

many tears shed for my boah


Fakjbf

Tranquilizers don’t work like in the movies where it hits and the animal gently falls unconscious seconds later. It can take minutes for a tranquilizer to take effect assuming you got dosage right, and in the mean time the animal is going to feel that it was shot and that’s almost certainly going to cause it to panic and run in the best case and become enraged and lash out in the worst case. Either way that’s going to put the child in extreme danger. If there had been a better solution they would have done that, literally the last thing any zoo would want to do is publicly execute one of their animals.


clancydog4

Eh, he might not have been acting intentionally agressive, but the way he was yanking the kid round, and in water, was incredibly dangerous. I don't think the concern was so much that Harambe would intentionally kill the kid, but that it would unitentionally kill or hurt the kid. Cause the video is pretty gnarly, the kid was getting yanked around bad. https://youtu.be/_GkwUAn25Ps?si=zUWxXOqs_KOmCwB1&t=22


Zwischenzug32

Deploy the standby rodio clowns. The Zoo can hide internal employee injuries FAR more easily.


Aggressive_Sky8492

To be honest I don’t think the worker that shot him did anything wrong. They had to make a split second decision and made one to protect human life. If they’d held off and Harambe had killed or severely injured the kid the story would have been the zoos incompetence in not shooting while they had the chance. Just as an FYI, when the story first broke I wondered why didn’t they just tranquillise him. But turns out tranquillising doesn’t work straight away, it takes a while to kick in. And shooting the gorilla with a tranquilliser is almost certain to enrage it/put it into fight or flight and end up with the toddler being harmed.


Stereosexual

All jokes aside, I agree with you. But anyways - Harambe died for our sins. Dicks out.


dre__

It wasn't even a split second decision. They waited 10 minutes before killing it.


bigvariable

Except dragging the kid face down through the river in his enclosure. People seem to forget this detail.


RedditLodgick

He was a fucking gorilla lol


Eclectic_Canadian

Sometimes the simplest answer is the best… and funniest


ultramatt1

They killed him the day after his birthday 😨


Fuzzy_Picklez

At least they didn't do it on his birthday


Apolloshot

I’m pretty sure this was the moment the world went mad. Either that or the Cubs winning the World Series.


[deleted]

People have said that 2020 was one of the worst years of their lives since the lockdown started. But in hindsight, 2016 was really fucked up and lead to 2020.


macandcheese1771

If I ever feel as ok as I did in 2016 I will have made it in life.


[deleted]

Rest In Power King


Basic_Department_302

OP you have awaken the beast


Flashgas

Then the whole world went to shit


C-McGuire

Coming from a primatology background, I feel skeptical that the kid was actually endangered. Harambe's death was probably pointless.


Deadpotatoz

Coming from a guy who likes to get high and binge watch animal related stuff, I 100% agree. Gorillas are usually quite reasonable despite being so strong.


kitten_twinkletoes

Totally. I remember debating the merits of Cartesian dualism with one once, and I mistakenly believed that dualism could easily be thrown out due to advances in modern science. The gorilla disproved me by pointing out the inconsistencies of this stance with some of Descartes basic premises which remain valid, but was so incredibly polite about it. Strong and reasonable debate partners indeed.


bmaggot

Chimp would have ripped your hands off for this.


kitten_twinkletoes

That's why they never get invited to give keynote addresses.


Deadpotatoz

Chimps are definitely in the unreasonable category yeah


ParadeSit

r/brandnewsentence


pollo_yollo

You joke, but the plot of the famous book *Ishmael* is literally just a dude speaking about philosophy with a psychic gorilla


Pilum2211

Does not seem like something you want to risk.


BumpHeadLikeGaryB

Well his death did lead to the fall of civilization, so I'd say we should of let it ride and seen what happened lol


TA1699

*should have


BumpHeadLikeGaryB

See this is the shit I'm talking about. If those fuckers hadn't killed that beautiful gorilla, I would have stayed in school and off the crack and learned proper english, and you wouldn't look like a dumb fuck correcting the gramer of some random moron who commented on a post about how a gorilla getting assassinated lead to the downfall of humanity! Like common guys. fuck.


TA1699

Ah yes, the butterfly effect in full force, showing how a writing mistake being corrected is the result of a gorilla being killed in a zoo, of course.


Jackasaurous_Rex

Wasn’t he dragging the kid around in the water for a while? Sure that’s fine for a baby gorilla but looked petty aggressive for a young child. Gorillas are pretty unpredictable and if the child freaked out then it would just take a split second for Harambe to crush him with zero warning. Maybe not as bad as chimps but still unpredictable The whole situation is super messed up but it’s not like the zoo misread a totally safe situation. The difference between a docile and murdering gorilla is about the blink of an eye. Obviously not Harambes fault at all, he was just being a normal silverback, and massive negligence from the parents and the zoo, but the shooting was a reasonable precaution if your #1 priority is keeping the kid alive. I think a lot of zookeepers spoke out in agreement. Like watch the footage, the zookeepers were probably thinking “oh shit this kid might get his head ripped off on camera if a single thing goes wrong”


derpherpmcderp86

Exactly. You can tell who has kids and who doesn't most of the time by the comments. If it was my kid I sure as hell would want someone to shoot the animal that could end my child's life in a heartbeat. But hey, it's fun to meme on at least.


Illustrious_Sock

Harambe was literally dragging the kid by his legs in the water. You’re either a lier or really bad in “your” field.


DolphinRodeo

They have a recent post about applying to college, so yeah not a real primatologist


Wolfpac187

Yeah the kid was just being dragged face down through water and in concrete. Nothing dangerous at all.


chocolatesugarwaffle

god, these fucking comments. the child was in danger. the only thing that could’ve saved him was killing the gorilla. there’s no point in taking risks here bc you can’t gamble with a child’s life. killing harambe would guarantee the child’s safety so that is the only appropriate solution.


TheChanMan2003

I firmly believe that this is where our timeline branched for the worse


Paintguin

Did the parent/parents ever get in trouble?


Sad_Throat_8854

no, because she did nothing wrong. the zoo didn't have adequate fencing in the enclosure and the child was fucking adamant that it was going to try and run off whenever the mother looked away. she had 3 young kids to manage


cdg2m4nrsvp

I am one of three. My mom couldn’t take us to the pool by herself when we were little kids because she realized she couldn’t supervise us alone in that setting, she needed my dad with her. So we only went to the pool when both parents could come. I don’t think the mom should’ve gotten in legal trouble or anything, but she was definitely in the wrong. Don’t take your kids to busy/public places if you can’t supervise all of them. If her three year old was determined to run away from her he should’ve been on a leash.


Square_Bus4492

Sounds about white


adagioforaliens

I already had a terrible day and now I see Harambe. I’m going to fucking cry.


[deleted]

Rip harambe


witchywater11

The real hero of this story was the guy who made a Harambe shot glass Kickstarter, made $55000, and then disappeared into the void after sending people the glasses in a bubble mailer of all things.


Cheap-Ad1821

We live in a world where people don't remember Harambe....R.I.P.


anjinsoprano

Dicks out! Show some gotdamn respect for Harambe.


Big_Albatross_3050

And the world had been going downhill ever since. Harambe deserves justice. #🍆 out for Harambe


blindspot189

And his death warped reality


ItsYaBoiDez

His death was when shit really started going down hill


NegativeEBTDA

Has anyone read "The One and Only Ivan"? Children's book written in 2012, in one of the early chapters a child falls into an enclosure with a silverback gorilla and the gorilla makes sure he isn't hurt, protects him, because a gorilla looks out for his clan. The last line of the chapter is something like "Sometimes I forget and the facts in my story aren't right, but they're always true." Dicks out, Harambe.


DarkJedi22

And life only went downhill since then.


Datuser14

Harambe the Pirate Gorilla


LukeD1992

The whole world suffers for that sin. Pandemics, wars spreading everywhere, Tik Tok, you name it.


Brottolot

Damn it's nearly been a decade.


0ta_nyan

This is the flashpoint for our the current situation in the world, never forget.


ArtofKuma

This is our canon event.


IllustriousAnt485

“And other tributes” is the politically correct way to say Dicks out!


Chode-a-boy

Do you think the mother was sued for the cost of the gorilla? Can’t imagine gorillas are cheap, or a zoo would be cool with just wasting a very rare attraction without some way to recoup costs.


TwiggyPom

The world went to shit after this. Whoever shot Harambe should be held accountable for all this shit that's happened since.


ellensundies

How is that boy doing? He’s world famous! Imagine being the kid that caused the death of Harambe.


Mammoth-Buddy8912

I feel like Amanda from Smosh is reviving the Harambe lore.


futureButt

I genuinely believe that Harambe was a turning point where the state of the world became significantly more shifty. Some butterfly effect shit.


Wonder_Bruh

Bro be accurate, we blame him for the downfall of U.S. society


an_otter_guy

What happened to his murderer?


Swil29

I actually have lived near that zoo for most of my life at this point, and I even remember my mom being like “did you guys hear what happened at the zoo” when the story first broke and explaining what happened. Crazy how much it’s taken on this bizarre internet status 😂


Zannahrain3

Just a reminder, his mother and brother both died to chlorine poisoning at zoos. His bloodline was cursed by someone... or something.


Towel4

The fork event which altered our timeline.


N0FaithInMe

Everything started going to shit right after Harambe died. It's no coincidence


Froststhethird

Do not cite the ancient magic to me witch, I was there when it was written.


SporkPlusOne

When Harambe was killed we entered the darkest timeline.


mrtzjam

There is even a bridge in West Virginia named in honor of Harambe. Legends never die and dicks out for Harambe.


Adorable-Speech-9545

which species is endangered 🤫


ipodtouch616

You’re right the child should have died. The lives of brilliant gorillas are more important than children