“Harambe lives on”, one of the students, Tiffany Nogoy, posted on Twitter.
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After being bombarded with Harambe memes in the wake of a plea for people to stop creating them, the Cincinnati Zoo has deleted its Twitter account.
“We knew that we would have to remove any props so we started to think out of the box”.
Nogoy’s tweet with the tagline “Harambe lives on” has been retweeted almost 3,000 times with its likes approaching 7,000. The move comes a day after the Cincinnati Zoo said it was “not amused” by the flood of comments jokes, memes and mentions of Harambe – the gorilla – on its micro-blogging website page, Time.com reported on Tuesday.
Visitors pass a gorilla statue where flowers have been placed outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Cincinnati.
“Our zoo family is still healing, and the constant mention of Harambe makes moving forward more hard for us”, Maynard had told the.
For some folks, nothing is more important then remembering Harambe, the gorilla who was killed and meme-ified after a risky encounter with a 4-year-old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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“Our zoo family is still healing”, Director Thane Maynard said in an email, adding, “We are honouring Harambe by redoubling our gorilla conservation efforts and encouraging others to join us”.
