Watch Over Us from Gorilla Heaven, King
The Cleveland Guardians, for those of you who don’t follow baseball, were formally the Cleveland Indians. In April of 2022, as they prepared to play the Los Angeles Angels, the mixture of “Guardians” and “Angels” made them consider the late Harambe. The silverback gorilla resided at the Cincinnati Zoo when he turned into a meme in 2016 after (what some would say was) his unfair fatal shooting.
He was zipline-ing, crooning opera, and then he died. That was more than five years ago. And yet somehow, inexplicably, memes of Harambe are only just now hitting Ohio. Is the state on some sort of tape delay?