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For others like me who have no clue what this meme is about:
In 2016, a 3-year old got into the Gorilla enclosure, where he was grabbed and dragged around by a gorilla, Harambe, which was then shot.
and the timeline hasn't felt right since
Harambe was the last vestigial of freedom, locked in a cage and then shot to death for acting of his own volition. /s
That's when the shift happened. Downfall of the US. Video games slapping you with my over quality. Nature preserves declining at an embarrassing rate
We were all so young
So if time travel gets invented, someone should travel back to 2016 to prevent the child from getting into the enclosure and everything will be good.
And then Elon musk made a shitty rap about it 3 years later for some reason.
How the fuck do you not know about that? It's been talked about and memed almost constantly since then. One of the biggest memes ever.
Comic by Randall Munroe
Alt text: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.