HARAMBE

In 2016, a gorilla named Harambe was shot at the Cincinnati Zoo after a child fell into his enclosure. The internet's response — "dicks out for Harambe" — became one of the most iconic memes of the decade, a symbol of performative internet grief that doubled as absurdist humor. In 2024, the meme was resurrected as a Solana meme coin. $HARAMBE tapped into deep internet nostalgia — the kind of meme that people who grew up online instantly recognize. It represents the long tail of meme culture: even a meme from 2016 can be tokenized years later and find a community willing to pump it, because the emotional connection to the meme never really died.