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The Internet Mourns One-Year Anniversary of Harambe's Death

The Internet Mourns One-Year Anniversary of Harambe's Death

Sunday marked the one-year anniversary since the death of an animal that inspired one of the internetā€™s greatest memes: Harambe.

In 2016, a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and video of him being dragged by a large gorilla, Harambe, went viral. After the accident, Harambe was killed by the zooā€™s Dangerous Animal Response Team. But he has lived on via the internet.

Harambe became one of the worldā€™s most famous memes after the incident ā€• and not just on the internet. People created shirts and songs in his honor as well.

The Cincinnati Zoo did not hold a public memorial for the anniversary of Harambeā€™s death, but the internet refused to let the day go unnoticed.

Even the rapper Young Thug, who released a song titled ā€œHarambe,ā€ posted a tribute to the gorilla on Twitter. And though weā€™re not entirely sure how much ā€œHarambeā€ is really even about the gorilla, the rapperā€™s fans replied with expressions of their own heartbreak.

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