Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 4, 2016 22:50:36 GMT 2
Sigh. Do you ever go to start a thread, and then you don't really know WHERE to start?
I'm not sure how closely you follow meme pages and the like, but if you do this is probably old news. If you don't.. hoo boy. Where to begin?
OK. So. A few months ago a little kid fell into a gorilla enclosure in a zoo? And they had to shoot the gorilla? You remember that happening? OK. Well, that gorilla's name was Harambe. And then things started to get weird.
A few ironic "tributes" began on Facebook meme pages in honour of the gorilla, but then someone somewhere came up with the slogan and the hashtag "dicks out for Harambe", implying to really honour the fallen monkey we should all get our dicks out like one. And this caught on. And then this happened.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTiVL9zkN4
Yep, that's Danny Trejo, who's either in on the joke or just says random shit when asked. Anyway, that got a LOT of attention and suddenly #dicksoutforharambe was officially a thing.
Meanwhile, in the real world, a little Baptist church was enjoying it's daily Facebook activities, posting psalms and pictures of doves and Jesus and stuff.. They just so happened to be called the Harambe Baptist Church. Their page was quickly shared around, and so their posts that had maybe five or ten comments of "amen" and the like suddenly had 400 comments each, all saying things like "RIP my nigga" and, of course, "dicks out for Harambe", as well as receiving endless private messages like this one.
This got so bad that the church actually posted a notice saying they were nothing to do with "the gorilla who was killed", and well of course that definitely helped matters and didn't just make it ten times funnier.
So, they eventually ended up removing every post they had, they then tried blocking comments on posts, they then tried blocking other people making individual posts. They then deleted their entire Facebook page, probably thinking that this fad will blow over and when it does they can re-join Facebook as the Harambe Baptist Church.
Except there's already a new Harambe Baptist church with thousand likes.. in memory of the gorilla.
Never change, internet.
I'm not sure how closely you follow meme pages and the like, but if you do this is probably old news. If you don't.. hoo boy. Where to begin?
OK. So. A few months ago a little kid fell into a gorilla enclosure in a zoo? And they had to shoot the gorilla? You remember that happening? OK. Well, that gorilla's name was Harambe. And then things started to get weird.
A few ironic "tributes" began on Facebook meme pages in honour of the gorilla, but then someone somewhere came up with the slogan and the hashtag "dicks out for Harambe", implying to really honour the fallen monkey we should all get our dicks out like one. And this caught on. And then this happened.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTiVL9zkN4
Yep, that's Danny Trejo, who's either in on the joke or just says random shit when asked. Anyway, that got a LOT of attention and suddenly #dicksoutforharambe was officially a thing.
Meanwhile, in the real world, a little Baptist church was enjoying it's daily Facebook activities, posting psalms and pictures of doves and Jesus and stuff.. They just so happened to be called the Harambe Baptist Church. Their page was quickly shared around, and so their posts that had maybe five or ten comments of "amen" and the like suddenly had 400 comments each, all saying things like "RIP my nigga" and, of course, "dicks out for Harambe", as well as receiving endless private messages like this one.
This got so bad that the church actually posted a notice saying they were nothing to do with "the gorilla who was killed", and well of course that definitely helped matters and didn't just make it ten times funnier.
So, they eventually ended up removing every post they had, they then tried blocking comments on posts, they then tried blocking other people making individual posts. They then deleted their entire Facebook page, probably thinking that this fad will blow over and when it does they can re-join Facebook as the Harambe Baptist Church.
Except there's already a new Harambe Baptist church with thousand likes.. in memory of the gorilla.
Never change, internet.
