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- Really? Harambe?
- The most historic event of 2016.
- I'm so over this.
- (reporter) ...the massive primate hovering over him.
- (both) Oh! - That is hard.
- Oh my god, no, no, no.
I don't like watching these kind of videos.
Seriously, I don't like this.
- I don't want to take the seriousness away from the situation,
but when was the last time you were grabbed by your leg
and dragged around? Like, that's fun. - That's kinky.
- Yeah, right? - That's--
- (reporter) ...then grabbing him by the back of his shirt.
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- I feel for the zoo.
It's like imagine losing your pet, and your dead pet,
your dead dog becomes a meme.
And you say, "Guys, I'm really feeling for my dead dog.
Can you please stop?" "[Bleep] no! Ha ha!"
- (FBE) Why does the internet in general
get up in arms about animals so much? It's not just Harambe.
- Yeah, I have no idea.
I never understood that.
- Animals make the internet go 'round.
I mean, cat videos were the birthplace of the internet.
- There's a soft spot in our hearts for
primates in particular. They're just so human.
- Animals are just perceived as innocent.
They don't really know what's happening to them.
And so when something happens to an animal, it's just sad.
- The internet just becomes a place
for people to throw their rage anonymously into the world.
Mostly internet moms cannot do good,
especially when they're so sensationalized
to the point where it's like, "We should shoot the mother."
It's like, "What are you talking--"
that's completely nonsensical.
- (FBE) A lot of memes have come out of this,
and one of the most popular has become the phrase,
"Dicks out for Harambe."
- I see this news story, and of course I'm gonna be like,
"Yes, let me pull out my genitalia in honor of this gorilla."
- "Dicks out for Harambe." (laughing)
I'm ashamed now that I'm on this show,
but I included a joke about Harambe in my recent video.
- I love smart memes. I love smart humor 9 times out of 10.
And this was like, "What is it?"
This was like the "meme" that made me feel old.
This is where I'm like, (gruffly) "I don't get kids these days.
Dicks out for Harambe? That's stupid! Have a smart meme!"
- (FBE) Why do you think people are doing this,
that it started off as a real serious thing,
and now they're saying, "Dicks out for Harambe"?
- I don't know. People are just weird.
- Well, I guess it's a short attention span, right,
that everybody has nowadays,
and nobody cares about the meat of the story anymore.
It's just Harambe.
- I don't understand what "dicks out" is supposed to accomplish.
- But we'll do it anyway. I mean, we're--
- Any excuse. - Our dicks are out.
- Any excuse for dicks out. - Our dicks are out.
- (FBE) So we have a handful of Harambe memes to show you.
- Okay. I don't know if I want to see that.
- Okay. "Harambe was just a gorilla..." (chuckling)
- I mean, I'm cool with that, you know?
That just, like-- it seems respectful.
- "Babe, what's wrong?" "I'm sad about Harambe."
"He was just a gorilla." (laughs) Is that Michael Phelps?
- Shut up! He wasn't just a gorilla.
- Predictable, but I'll allow it.
- I appreciate when memes come together
and really have that cross-meme synergy.
- (FBE) And one more. - No! Tinder. (laughs)
- "Harambe, 19. 23 m..."
"I tried to help his kid that fell in
because his mom wasn't a good parent."
- "Then they shot me,
so now I'm helping God with his children from heaven."
Ha! Oh!
- I'm gonna jump on Tinder just to swipe right on that one.
- Oh my god. Goodbye.
- (FBE) You wouldn't swipe right? - No, he's 23 miles away.
- I don't like that one.
- I feel bad about them, and I feel like I would be upset
if somebody else liked them.
- I seriously feel bad. Like, right now,
after this, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I'm going to the church or something, because I feel so bad.
- At this point in the Harambe cycle, I don't feel bad.
I feel like at this point it's warped into its own weird thing.
- As much as people are lamenting the death,
they're celebrating the life as little
as they'd known about the life. - But here's the thing.
They aren't celebrating the life. - They are. It's a witness.
- No, it's a joke! It is a joke! - Life is just a joke!
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