White House Harambe Meme Tribute Goes Viral as Boy Who Fell Into Enclosure Reaches Age 13

A seven-foot bronze statue of Harambe was placed on Wall Street in 2021 after the gorilla became a lasting internet icon (Credit: The White House/X)

The White House has called Harambe 'a true patriot' in an official X tribute posted on what would have been the gorilla's 27th birthday, but nobody is talking about the three-year-old boy whose fall into a Cincinnati Zoo enclosure in 2016 sparked one of the internet's most enduring cultural phenomena. That boy is now approximately 13 years old.

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