In case you’ve been hiding under a rock since May, Harambe, the awesome gorilla from the Cincinnati Zoo, was shot and killed because a kid jumped into his habitat. The zoo’s director Thane Maynard’s account had been hacked, and every single tweet that the official account sent out was greeted by a flood of responses about Harambe.
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Wednesday’s hack was a bit different.
The Cincinnati Zoo has deleted its Twitter accounts after being bombarded for weeks with memes, jokes and protests against the death of Harambe the gorilla. The internet trolls pretending to be the zoo, as you can see, just swapped the “I ” s in Cincinnati with “L ” s.
Cincinnati Zoo has been forced to close its social media accounts after they were inundated with memes, online petitions and signs. Maynard’s account was later deactivated.
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In an email to the Associated Press over the weekend, zoo director Thane Maynard said “We are not amused by the memes, petitions and signs about Harambe, Our zoo family is still healing, and the constant mention of Harambe makes moving forward more hard for us”. Social media users trying to visit the Cincinnati Zoo’s Twitter account on Tuesday were redirected to a page that says: “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist”.
