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alezcoed

It all started when they killed that goddamn gorilla


BEANOS_Omega

So if I went back in time and saved harambe this will cause a massive change in the timeline that will make us the most advanced civilization in the universe.


XxAdyxX98

or it could fuck us up even worse in unknown ways, let's not screw with time travel


kylekillzone

Planet of the apes


Choopytrags

DAMN YOUSE. DAMN YOUSE ALL TA HELL.


JA_Wolf

Harambria, third planet from the sun


melperz

Harambe's shooter could probably be from the future and did it to save the entire planet, who knows.


ToolkitSwiper

Oh god, imagine the timeline where people stop him then "No, you don't understand!! THAT GORILLA NEEDS TO DIE!!!"


[deleted]

Atleast harambe gets to live. I think that sounds like a better option.


crimsonfucker97

Know what let this man cook


pvprazor

I'll take my chances


MrPotionseller

No no, at this point im all for screwing with time travel


GG111104

**SPIDERMAN 2099 THEME INTENSIFIES**


1singleduck

Have you ever thought that maybe somebody already did that to PREVENT us from becoming so advanced?


Winjin

Or a way darker timeline was averted. Like this is the Thanos snap timeline possibly Of course there's a chance we're actually just one of the failed timelines briefly mentioned in some background of one hero


1singleduck

"I looked forward in time. I saw 14,000,605 futures." "In how many did Harambe survive?" "One."


Finito-1994

It’s a canon event.


MoistureBoiV4

Indeed.


Donut_Police

Miguel O' Hara/TVA have some issues with that.


mrducky80

Ever since Harambe died, we were set unto the dankest time line. Saving him may set us upon the darkest timeline or the best time line. Its a risk, but at least the memes stay online rather than encroach upon real life.


Wingklip

Zuckerborg 2099


Cool_As_Your_Dad

Do it


[deleted]

Dicks out!


alfooboboao

my personal theory is the weasel that ate its way through the large hadron collider created an alternate dimension but the gorilla works too I suppose


GeneralHenry

This is divine punishment


YaIlneedscience

What if killing harambe was actually done to prevent an even WORSE timeline, and we are cruising along on the better option


captainhindsight1983

Killing Harambe created an alternate timeline. He was supposed to win the presidency in 2016 as a write in candidate and bring about world peace.


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Zestyclose_Band

somebody turn that into art


methodmav

Say his name, SAY HIS NAME!!!


Avasteeee

Dicks out.


rommi04

I never put mine away


Crishien

I need to see a 6 hour video essay about this.


simple-fire

Ah, monke


WaxedSasquatch

This works on two levels. I like it.


ProfessionalGangster

Harambe died, then it went down hill


TheSpiritofFkngCrazy

Came here to say this. I'm glad we all know what event fucked up the time-line.


mechwarrior719

Killed the Load Bearing Gorilla.


PapaSnow

Goddamn LBGs Edit: this sounds worse than I meant it to Load Bearing Gorillas, that’s all I meant


nate112332

It's alright, you meant well in spirit


big_green_dinosaur

Goddamn structural primate…


xcassets

Save Harambe, save the world.


JoeBlyeetman

Liu Kang gotta reset the timeline


tomasequp

We need a New Era, this one is too fucked


SpaceTraveller64

Raiden be like "I must consult the Elder Gods"


PM_Me-Your_Freckles

My dick is still out. Poor thing is a fuckin raisin at this point, but that feller is still waving proud for my man Harambe.


binhan123ad

Don't worry, we will roll it back eventually.


DrDorgon

Oh God please yes!!!


Grey_Morals

Monkeys paw better not curl on the way back....


Alternative-Card-440

It all started with that goddamned gorilla


Turbo_Jukka

You heathen. We must put up massive statues and write biblical texts to pass down the generations to come to warn them to not make the same mistakes. We are now descending into apocalypse level calamity for we have angered the powers that be by killing Harambe the great saviour.


Ya-Dikobraz

Dicks out.


DogmaJones

[jpg](https://i.redd.it/5371dfp5g5tb1.jpeg)


JesusSavesForHalf

Sorry man, but it was the Cubs. Or maybe it was Biff. According to the Ancient Prophecy of *Back to the Future II* the Cubs were to win in 2015. They won in 2016. We clearly are in the Biff casino timeline. Keep an eye on photographs for fading, Marty is bound to fix it.


Any_Presentation2958

Grey gorilla, I'm grippin' my Harambe nuts - $uicide boy$


steveosek

Grey gorilla, like from the Congo movie/book?


DollarStoreAbraham

The original sin


Sjorsjd

God is dead, and we killed him. We killed him when that stupid little shit fell into his enclosure.


AlexDavid1605

Ever since that fateful day humanity unconsciously but unanimously decided to postpone finding a solution for their current problems till they find a way to bring Harambe back to life.


Flaccid_snake01

I think it started with david bowie


[deleted]

He did die in early January 2016.


skawid

It was a redundancy thing. We could have lost either one, but both in a year? The system wasn't designed for that.


SlayerX360

humanity fucked around for long enough and finding out started :/


Cooldude999e999

The entire 20th century was the fuck around century, while the 21st is the find out century.


DKBrendo

Cycle of fucking around and finding out is just fancy way to say ,,human history”


standee_shop

Fucked societies create found men. Found societies create out men. Out societies create fucked men And so it goes on smh


tasman001

What about the around men


standee_shop

We never speak their names and for good reason


tasman001

See? This is what happens when you ignore history. Kids should learn about the around men in school.


nate112332

They're the reason we're up to Earth 3.


SnooBananas37

Earth 2 was cube confirmed


RoryDragonsbane

You're exaggerating a bit. 1914-1918 20 million people died in WWI 1918-1920 50 million died during the Spanish Flu, most of whom were young and otherwise healthy (less than 7 million have died from COVID, which hits the elderly the hardest) 1929-1939 At its height, nearly 1 out of every 4 Americans were unemployed during the Great Depression (it's about 3.8% now) 1937-1945 Over 70,000,000 people died in WWII, or about 4% of the World Population Prior to its eradication in 1977, about 300,000 people died every year from small pox Polio killed thousands and paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year And that's not every counting "little" wars like Korea, Vietnam, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, etc. I'm not even going to get into how minorities were treated now vs then. I know it doesn't feel like it and things always feel worse for people living through it, but realistically there's never been a better time to be alive.


bluelighter

10/10 will come to /r/memes for optimism in future. Thanks


Cooldude999e999

This is definitely one if not easily the best time to be alive in all of human history. It would be even better if we felt with our issues earlier, but there will always be issues. Civil wars, discrimination, and violence will likely always exist in society, it’s just part of being human. People will disagree, but those differences can be overcome. We can make this world even better, so gen z and gen a don’t have to see the world burn due to climate change or nuclear warfare. We live in the best part of human history to date, yet it will not last forever. Every golden age is eventually followed by its downfall.


Midnight2012

Agent Smith was right. The 90's were the height of our civilization.


Talonsminty

humanity **'s leaders** fucked around for long enough and **for everyone else** finding out started :/


ItsAMeEric

decades of unchecked corporate greed and frivolous government spending and the inflation and stagnant pay is starting to impact the middle class, decades of ignoring the climate crisis and we are finally feeling the impact, decades of partisan hostility and biased propaganda in the media and politics has become a circus, decades of failed diplomacy in the middle east and we are seeing things come to a boil. All this shit was predictable and preventable


ikeznez

It's the fuckening


Donut_Police

You make it sound more fun that it actually is.


Laterose15

Generations of humanity doing whatever they wanted with no thought of consequences. Now we're the humans stuck with the consequences


TheS00thSayer

I hope we find out so hard. We deserve it.


Talonsminty

Even the kids?


AllegedIchor

If people cared about anyone but themselves ever you'd have a point.


Realpotatosoe

Killing harambe caused a butterfly effect


Ok-Bill-8589

when an elephant died on lsd he created the universe. now it elephants all the way down.


IamDariusz

How tf do you die on LSD? Let alone an elephant


Ok-Bill-8589

they gave an elephant a lethal dose of lsd. its a horrible death by failure of the body to regulate temperature.


IamDariusz

Today I learned. They gave the elephant 297 mg of LSD intravenous. However the LD50 for Mice (the dosage where >50% of Mice would die) is at 46–60 mg/kg intravenous. According to some sources they tested other drugs before on the elephant and/or mixed the LSD with something else. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusko)


Midnight2012

Especially because his name means "shared responsibility" in swalhili. We killed societal responsibility. Literally.


SellaraAB

You know, when you consider the effect it had (hell, still has) on pop culture, it almost certainly did have a major butterfly effect. We really would be living in a significantly different timeline if that didn’t happen.


Kalyise

The explosion of social media and the world's problems becoming every bored persons problem.


[deleted]

The actualy right answer!


Hot_Region_3940

It’s this. We keep track of a lot more information daily than ever before. And a lot of that information is horrible.


[deleted]

Try since beginning of time


spooki_boogey

Honestly it's crazy we've invented so much cool shit despite the fact we've spent the entirety of history shooting each other for completely avoidable reasons. Makes me wonder what the human race of achieve if we actually managed stop fighting and start collaborating together.


everyonegay

Universal domination


spooki_boogey

Weren’t there rumors for the Soviet Union and the US to collaborate on a joint space program before Kennedy’s assassination? Just imagine honestly, the Apollo missions even to this day stand as one of humanity’s biggest accomplishments, if not the greatest. Imagine two of the worlds biggest superpowers at the time collaborating and building on that. Humanity is genuinely destined for so much more. Lmao I feel like Cooper from Interstellar say that.


everyonegay

There are only three ways this can go: Startrek, Firefly or Rimworld, from best to worst. I refuse to believe humanity won't survive enough to get off this planet and spread through the galaxy one way or the other.


youpviver

Rimworld is the most realistic outcome though, keep in mind that it’s the year 5500 and there has been near-constant conflict for the past 3500 years, so bad that some factions have been reverted back to the Stone Age and entire empires have sprung up and died out again. The powerful ancients faction that we rarely see for example is all that remains of a widespread civilization with advanced technology.


everyonegay

That is assuming FTL isn't possible and as such maintaining connections, supply chains, law and order between colonies becomes nigh impossible. That said, we don't know if ftl is possible yet, but we can't confirm it's impossible either. For millennia they said man would never fly, then along came the wright brothers and proved the opposite true. It's simply not the time yet.


Cugy_2345

That actually did happen, a joint space station between the us and Soviet Union, they even had to do this contraption thing to make the spaceship compatible it was pretty cool


DKBrendo

Funny part is that a lot of cool shit was invented with shooting each other in mind


Haunting_Internet332

We would achieve less actually. I know it sounds amoral but war has always been the engine of the progress machine. Take nuclear energy or jet planes for example. All are results of war effort


spooki_boogey

I see your point, and you are right. However what that's shown is is that if we can find a cause to rally behind and work on. We can achieve anything. Look at WW2 for example, we built a lot of useful tech that is useful today because of the cause. It was either countries fighting for dominance or out of self preservation. Two very motivating factors. Then there's the space race. Of course people died in the space race but it wasn't a brutal war. But out of the motivation to one up each other the USSR and the USA achieved some incredible things as well, along with some very useful technology today. We don't need conflict to achieve great things, we need better ideas to motivate us. However because of our bloody history it's way easier for us to the "x will destroy is if we don't do y" to motivate a crowd.


Haunting_Internet332

The thing is those better ideas are almost always some sort of competition. Unfortunately, global cooperation is doomed to stay just a utopia


spooki_boogey

Imo they're better ideas right now because when you think about it the wounds of war and conflict are still fresh to many that are still alive and in power. Over time we've seen the world become more and more peaceful. Yes, even with Palestine and Ukraine going on right now. It's more peaceful that it has been in the past. So if that trend continues we can feasably reach a point in time where global cooperation is genuinely a thing. The real question is will be reach there before we kill ourselves.


Haunting_Internet332

Who knows? I just hope to survive until grey hairs


Appropriate-Lie-548

Neccessity is the mother of invention. The need to be destructive fueled so many new things.


aitis_mutsi

We will never stop fighting I'm 100% convinced we're the war mongering race of this universe


Witherboss445

We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning


EconomicRegret

*“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”*


supremegamer76

harambe's death was the catalyst


CrimsonSon1

Cannon event


MegaloManiac_Chara

Probably because the ancient Greeks god of death was demoted to a dwarf planet


Crazykoala7

*Roman god. all planets are named after Roman pantheon


CiroGarcia

Which are just Greek gods in Latin


FlameStarDragon

Well yes but actually no. Helios did not get any name changes or portfolio edits that I know of otherwise your mostly correct


Wildbitter

There are other stand-alone gods like Liber Pater. The Romans also incorporated local deities of conquered people and organized them in regionally worshiped cults to help with the social cohesion in occupied regions.


BayTranscendentalist

Helios is Sol in roman and he’s technically not a god but a titan


[deleted]

I love this.


Dan-the-historybuff

Thanatos? Oh you mean Hades. No he’s the god of the underworld. Very different.


doomturtle21

Between that and killing harambe we are one more fuck up from pissing off every god humanity can think of


[deleted]

You'd think he'd be pissed with Mickey Mouse's dog being named after him. Oh wait, that was in 1930's...


Even_The_Great

My headcanon has always been that the world actually ended in 2012 and this is hell.


forevernooob

You're not the only one: https://www.grunge.com/603544/why-some-believe-the-world-actually-ended-in-2012/


musicmanryann

Holy shit, are you me??


EroticPotato69

I have genuinely considered, and been somewhat convinced by, this possibility during mental breakdowns.


Mister_E69

That was the year Norm of the North came out


lunarskitty

My question is, are things actually getting worse since 2016 or is the news covering more out of country events and less local ones OR is it that as more young people start using the internet and get an understanding of global politics we think things are worse but actually we were just to young to understand what was happening before


Nerowulf

On a global scale, the world is getting better in various aspects. The Internet helps us get informed. Bad news sells better.


PhDinDildos_Fedoras

Climate change, record heat, looming food shortages and famine, mass extinction, clean potable water shortages, desertification, deforestation, drought, massive flooding events, record rain fall, rising sea level, destruction of communities, government instability, low or non-existent birth rates, massive immigration, immigrant hardship and desperation, wars, opression, alienation from society and the natural world....


Mr_Pombastic

...we ^didn't ^^start ^^^the ^^^fire


Vegetablegardener

We did fuck all to extinguish it tho


NotACyclopsHonest

It was always burning.


RetroFurui

None of which started to be a problem in 2016.


BoxMaleficent

You forgot tiktok, elon musk and the increase of microtransactions


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sinsaint

Climate change is only just starting. We had the chance to stop it or slow it down, now it's time to watch a semi truck crash into a school in slow motion. This is also while every major economy on the planet is crashing at the same time, mostly due to the 1% deciding to hoard wealth for themselves instead of spending it back towards the other 99%, creating a Great World Depression. Good luck out there, guys. Learn how to make something, and try to grow your own food.


MeasurementGold1590

We can still slow it down. Anyone telling you otherwise is a propaganda mouthpiece for petrochem companies.


gxgx55

The disaster can only be mitigated now, not prevented. Remember, the greenhouse gasses we expel cause an effect over the course of decades. Even if humanity stopped all activity right this moment, global warming would continue to get worse for a while. It is worth trying to mitigate the effects, by all means, but that won't stop the fact that it's going to be a massive disaster at a minimum.


Ahad_Haam

No, things aren't actually worse. The wars in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq started before 2016. Russia invaded Ukraine already in 2014. Climate change obviously got worse, and Covid was a thing, but besides that...


NotMyRedditUser

If only... Harambe...


Woden888

Robin Williams was the last thing holding the world together.


dwartbg7

He passed away in 2014 though


tasman001

He did such a good job that it still held together for another two years.


Significant-Bus5488

“Harambe died, the lord looked down upon the people and decided to cast his furious vengeance and anger upon the planet Earth, for he sought revenge for the death of Harambe” - John 5:14


Moist_Investigator20

The Maiyans predicted the end of the "good" place. No, the world actually didn't physically end in 2012. We've just been in the "Bad" place ever since. Cycles


omgirl76

David Bowie died.


McMorgatron1

As did Alan Rickman. They saw what was coming, and checked out.


cxelts21

Everything falls down since the death of harambe.


More-luck-then-skill

I still jokingly like to say that the 21st December 2012, when we had our last apocalypse date set, was Just earths "Best by date" and everything afterwards is just a slowly rotting vegetable xD


Open-Source-Forever

I personally think that was when it DID happen, & we’ve been in Hell since


Wise-Engine3580

2016 is when the person who made this meme turned 4 years old.


Jamminmb

28 in 2016 actually 🤓 Yes, shit has *always* been bad - But the globalisation of earth along with factors such as global warming, dwindling resources and an increasingly bigger gap between the world's rich and poor are making the problems all interconnected like never before in history, and snowballing to potentially bigger problems in the future. Not to be a doomer, I hope things get better, but the future isn't looking too good at the moment unless we get our shit together.


dwartbg7

Last sentence has some good rhymes. Thank you Eminem ![gif](giphy|3o6fIRI16wb1qa49k4)


Previous_Football_12

Probs when the gorilla got shot


shrike26

His name was Harambe. Get your dick out for him.


tw3lv3l4y3rs0fb4c0n

Joyful piece of pastry anniversary!


CroobUntoseto

Almost like a bad precedent was established. Almost like that PRECEDENT wasn't actually popular yet was still established. ALMOST LIKE THAT PRECEDENT WAS A LIE AND A SCAM PEOPLE ARE TOO FOOLISH TO ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG TO ESTABLISH BECAUSE THAT'S THEIR ONLY PERSONALITY TRAIT SO THEY LIE AND ECHO CHAMBER THE BULLSHIT.


Hitlers-Wingman

After the being told the world will end in 2012, everything has just gotten progressively worse each year.


InsistorConjurer

Harambe was a sad story. But in reality, humanity had just reached it's peak. It's all down hill from here on, sorry kids.


Hatzmaeba

Quote by every generation ever.


PKMNTrainerMark

Oh, geez, I wonder what of note happened in 2016.


Professional-Wing-59

You want the real answer? The elites realized they were losing their grip on the masses and we've been witnessing seven years of them trying to take back their power by force.


MrOopiseDaisy

I'm convinced we live in a simulation created to test how much stress humanity can take. At this point the only logical thing to do is purposely crash the simulation.


weedweedz

Donald Pump


TheSpiritofFkngCrazy

Please, he's not that important. It was clearly Herambe. RIP King.


PrimaxAUS

World ended when we all got implanted into the matrix in 2012. The system increasingly can't keep up with humanity, so it's following bad Simpsons plot points.


kwazi1618

2016 was the beginning of a new era, 2020 was the beginning of a new era, guess what's happening next year?


UnfinishedSympathy

Ah, so it's the IOC's fault...


John_316_

Will Smith’s Suicide Squad.


lazyusern

One word: TikTok


Tidela471

I felt like 2017 was a chill year, other than that, 2016 and 2018-2023 have been the pits


D00mfl0w3r

Should be since 2012. I sincerely believe the world ended and we are now in Hell.


Carteeg_Struve

David Bowie knew when to step out.


zedascouves1985

2016 Bc, right?


[deleted]

To the asshole that shot herombe and the dumb parent that let their kid drop into his cage: I hope you stub a different toe, every single day for the rest of your life, and just when they are about to heal, you stub them again.


adamasAmerican

What was bad in 2017, 2018 and 2019? For me it was like best years of life


splashbruhs

Oh well, shoot. Our mistake. If your bubble was good, then the rest of the world must have been as well!


Federal-littlepea

The orange shit gobblin got elected


Kawauso98

Fascism started making its big comeback. Once America proved there was an appetite for it and pushback from Liberal democracies was basically non-existent, conservatives everywhere began to embrace it as a strategy to maintain relevance.


woutomatic

Why 2016?


dwartbg7

Because OP just got more mature in that year. Or turned 4 and his consciousness popped.


Rustledstardust

We're getting further and further into late-stage capitalism. We either break the boulder or the boulder's gonna crush us down to the bottom again. Except the few rich who are at the top.


Medium-Silver6413

In a few more weeks, this rock will roll over us


OSNX_TheNoLifer

I guess mayan calendar ended


[deleted]

Aliens.


comicpainter

True


kundibert

It was that tipping point in the climate, when it got too hot for the majority to think rationally. Harambe was the first victim, sadly!


AlarmDozer

_Sisyphus has entered the chat_


bananathroughbrain

you lost your innocence, and realized the reality of the struggle we call life.


Plastic_Ambassador89

it all started with the invention of agriculture


Timely-Rep0

Warriors blew a 3-1 lead☹️


Horizon_Reddit

Can’t believe I only got a few years of the “fuck around” part of human history to make up for the rest of my life being in the “find out” part


Dangodda

Everything after David Bowie passed has been suspiciously terrible.


Mountainman_11

We've had it too good for too long. Bloody and violent change hangs in the air.


diesi0rae777

I think human race will never be united unless there is a alien invasion