michaelblume:

memeufacturing:

man *waking up from 12 year coma*: excuse me…. Doctor… ive been asleep for so long….. can you please…. bring me a newspaper… so i can better understand the current world… 
doctor: no i absolutely fucking cannot do that 

I keep hearing references to Harambe in the context of presidential politics and I have absolutely no idea where it’s actually coming from.

honestly, I think he just resonated enough with Weird Twitter(s) and that lies close enough to Young Hotshot Journalist Twitter that they started doing it a bit to signal how with-it they were

it’s weird though, I’m sure it’s meant as shitposting, but the stuff they do - portray him as this noble figure shot down by the man as a microcosm of a failed system, rewrite the lyrics to recognizable popular tunes to convey this story, make art and micromythology where he blesses favored causes and stands ready to avenge disfavored ones - is like textbook birthing of a folk hero legend

I guess that’s not unprecedented - 4chan wasn’t too far off with their “can’t corner the Dorner/dodge the Rodge/flim-flam the Zimmerman” stuff, and Black Lives Matter has been showing the power of social media as a martyr-making platform

wonder if it’s just Weird Twitter using their ironic idiom to express an instinctual reaction to Stability going negative, same thing as Bonnie and Clyde and the social bandit vogue of the late ‘60s/’70s