Unlike the gorilla himself , the Harambe meme only will not pass .

Since the incident at theCincinnati Zooin late March , the Harambe meme has jumped the shark stacks of times over . We have tribute songs fromanonymous YouTubers , aspiring rapper , andaward - winning artistsalike . There arethemed cocktailsand fratty tweets calling for “ drinkable out for Harambe , ” itself a play on the now - ill-famed “ dicks out for Harambe ” Vine star Danny Trejo . Cartoon villain Martin Shkreli haschimed inon the trend , and the volume of memes based on Harambe caused the Cincinnati Zoo to shut down their societal media account statement .

And lastly , at the end of the meme rainbow , an ASMRtist has decided to reenact a futile emergency operating room to spare the hurt Gorilla gorilla .

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For the uninitiated , ASMR — short for self-reliant sensory meridian response — is a poorly understood phenomenon key by those who experience it as a feeling of “ learning ability tingling . ” It ’s usually activate by soft address , crinkling or tapping sounds , or close down personal attention . The ASMR community lives almost altogether on YouTube , where hours - tenacious videos can still soak up hundred of thousands of views from citizenry seeking out this pleasant sensation .

Some ASMR videos are a benignant collection of noises . Others feature a part - meet element , with the ASMRtist ( as they ’re call ) pretending to be aophthalmologist , hair stylist , cartoon grapheme , or , in this case , a veterinary operating surgeon . And , based on the wayBluewhisperrepeatedly have-to doe with to Harambe as “ bighearted buddy ” while staring directly into the camera , in this character play , you are the expired ape .

The surgery end with Bluewhisper promising you ( a gorilla ) that you ’ll be place to a sanctuary and integrated with a raw tribe . It ’s sort of unclear if this is her endeavour to rewrite his death through fabrication , or more of an allusion to a great bounteous Gorilla gorilla enclosure in the sky stand for as comforting words to a dying animal . Either mode — yikes !

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

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