Si los Backrooms son un lugar de cuatro dimensiones (es decir, que existen en pasado, presente y futuro), imagínate estar explorandolo y de pronto ver cómo un dinosaurio aparece en mitad de un pasillo.
Que conceptazo.
A three-year-old fell into a gorilla's enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. To save the boy, the zoo shot the gorilla. His name was Harambe, and ten years later the official White House account posted a tribute calling a dead zoo animal a true patriot.
It started much smaller. For about a day, Harambe was just a sad local news story out of Ohio. Then someone reposted a bystander's phone video of the gorilla and the boy, and it pulled more than 12 million views in two days. Once a clip moves that fast, every news channel has to chase it.
The first reaction was anger. A petition called "Justice for Harambe," blaming the boy's parents, passed half a million signatures in a couple of weeks. People filed more than 80 separate Harambe petitions in the first three days.
And then the anger flipped into a joke. People online started writing over-the-top funeral tributes for a gorilla, treating him like a dead rock star. A comedian turned his name into a crude catchphrase, "dicks out for Harambe," posted it as a clip on Vine, the short video app everyone used back then, and it took off on its own. A zoo animal nobody had heard of two months earlier was now a running gag that millions of people kept alive on purpose.
It kept getting weirder. A real 2016 poll asked Texas voters who they wanted for president, and 2 out of every 100 picked Harambe, who had been dead for months. Someone found a Cheeto shaped like him, and bidding on eBay climbed close to $100,000 before the listing got pulled. In 2019, Elon Musk uploaded a tribute song called "RIP Harambe" that passed 200,000 plays in a single day. In 2021, a 7-foot bronze statue of him went up facing the famous charging bull on Wall Street, with 10,000 bananas piled around it, as a stunt about the gap between rich and poor.
Most internet jokes die in a week. I'd half forgotten how far this one went until the anniversary brought it back. It outlived the app that made it famous, kept spawning songs and statues for years, and a decade later, even the White House joined in.
12-year-old me: “This guy cut off Anakin's hand, he’s evil!”
30-year-old me: “You know, there is great validity in what he says.”
Also, it’s funny that Dooku literally told Obi-Wan everything here; the Jedi were just too arrogant to listen.
>FBI knocks on your door
>your own mother finds out all the racist and sexist things you said online
Honestly, I respect that this kid stayed cool under pressure
The legendary BACK TO THE FUTURE blooper where Michael J. Fox, suddenly plays Marty as a Mexican cholo and ad‑libs “no homeboy for her tonight, man,” cracking up the whole set.