The internet is like preschool . say the minor to end bouncing off the walls and they ’re going to openly bemock you . And then plausibly send you a Harambe meme . That ’s the problem that the Cincinnati Zoo has encountered amid a flood of Harambe memes that areas likely to contain as a Phish concert .

Since the killing of the gorilla Harambe after a four - year - honest-to-goodness fell into the Gorilla gorilla ’s playpen back in May , the zoo has basically encounter non - stop Harambe memes flooding its social media accounts . Monday , zoo conductor   Thane Maynard made the mistake of asking the cyberspace to contain . While he was completely justified in doing so , the worldly concern has a zero percent success charge per unit when separate the internet to stop doing anything . The inflow of Harambe memes in response to the zoo ’s pleas has force the zoo to close all of its societal medium accounts .

Over the weekend , Maynard ’s personal Twitter account was hijacked bya cyber-terrorist called " Prom . “Prom posted many a # JusticeForHarambe tweets from Maynard ’s story , and that might have been the last shuck . The zoological garden post a content put forward " we are not amused , " and you may guess how the internet respond .

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The full statement read , " We are not amuse by the memes , request and sign about Harambe …   Our zoo family is still healing , and the unremitting reference of Harambe stimulate moving forward more unmanageable for us . We are honoring Harambe by redouble our gorilla preservation efforts andencouraging others to link up us . "

A tidal undulation of Harambe jokes and meme followed , and that ’s when the menagerie decide it was time to close it down .

The zoo was in an awkward position . Generally , an organization can bring together in the meme - ing and that ’s commonly the meme ’s swan birdcall . But have the situation , that was n’t really an option for the zoo .

The meme is bothhilariousand offensive , and that ’s part of why it has managed tolast much longer than a meme ’s usual lifecycle . However , there ’s a line between make aGIF of Vin Diesel driving next to Harambeat the end ofFurious 7and harassing some communications staff member or interne at a zoo . The latter is unpleasant for someone who in all probability does n’t merit the relentless tantalization . keep out it down might have been the zoo ’s only choice , and that ’s unfortunate for an constitution that lives and fail on donations .

Hopefully , the zoo can rejoin a Harambe - less net some mean solar day , when the next affair comes along . Maybe that thing will be something more deserving of interminable ridicule , likeRyanLochte .