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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 50 points 2 years ago (8 children)

For others like me who have no clue what this meme is about:

In 2016, a 3-year old got into the Gorilla enclosure, where he was grabbed and dragged around by a gorilla, Harambe, which was then shot.

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[–] em2@lemmy.ml 66 points 2 years ago (3 children)

and the timeline hasn't felt right since

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Harambe was the last vestigial of freedom, locked in a cage and then shot to death for acting of his own volition. /s

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[–] scala@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's when the shift happened. Downfall of the US. Video games slapping you with my over quality. Nature preserves declining at an embarrassing rate

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

We were all so young

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

So if time travel gets invented, someone should travel back to 2016 to prevent the child from getting into the enclosure and everything will be good.

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

And then Elon musk made a shitty rap about it 3 years later for some reason.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How the fuck do you not know about that? It's been talked about and memed almost constantly since then. One of the biggest memes ever.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Comic by Randall Munroe

Alt text: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.

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