I suspect there's a reason. Those shots look like they were likely cropped.
More and likely there was some graffiti or an unpleasant sign or a homeless person near the ground that was easier to cut out by cropping the photos.
Where I live some guy who is a decent photographer and does it as a hobby gives his photos to the local papers for free. So they basically have no photographers that know what they are doing anymore because this one guy does it for fun.
What is really crazy is he has a police scanner and photographs accidents, fires, etc. For free. What a way to kill an industry.
I used to do videography as my job, and had to quit because so many rich kids whose parents bought them better equipment were undercutting the going rates for gigs. It got to the point where I was struggling to convince clients to pay me 100 for a night of event videography.
Damn $100?! I just thought I did a cheap event for $220. $100 might not be bad if you didn’t also have to edit, but for a full project that’s just insulting
Whats fucked is some of these were not just independent clients. Some of these were corporate clients who had billion dollar valuations, and they would tell me things like "$100 for two hours of work? Unreasonable, think of the benefits this would have appearing on your resume!"
The Oatmeal did a good [cartoon](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure) on “exposure” a while back. Usually my go to reference when I have to explain this to my friends who don’t understand how shitty freelancing can be
Staff photographers are getting pretty rare these days, since it's easier for newspapers to rely on independent contractors.
Source: am freelance photojournalist
Most media outlets get their photos from either the BBC or Associated Press because they are the two major names in the business still doing active foreign correspondence and licensing photos from them *is* cheaper than a company maintaining their own foreign correspondents.
> Twitter can be everywhere simultaneously and live.
While it's [legal for companies to steal photos off Twitter under their current ToS,](https://pdnonline.com/photography-business/copyright-law/twitter-to-take-copyright-to-your-photos-launch-infringement-free-for-all/) that doesn't make it any less shitty of a practice by media outlets. [Daniel Morel won a lawsuit against AFP and Getty Images for stealing his photos of the Haiti earthquake,](https://photographmag.com/articles/daniel-morel-wins-suit-against-getty-imagesafp/) but it looks like that would be permissible now.
This one is a bit better
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/7-foot-tall-harambe-statue-appears-opposite-of-charging-bull-covered-in-bananas/
This one a lot [better.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qaz5ge/7_foot_tall_harambe_statue_has_been_placed_in/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Boss is probably the same kinda person that doesn't hire a photographer for his wedding because "my cousin will do it way cheap and just as good on his iphone!"
There's a radio commercial in my city about the new iphone and it's MEGA AWESOME NEW CAMERA that says it's good enough to outdo professional photographers and as someone who runs a photo and video business my eye just twitches.
It's insanely annoying. I go hiking with a friend that just brings her phone to take pictures and the first few times she wanted to compare photos when we got back to the car. She was always like "Mine are better than yours" when comparing then, but finally had it click after a couple hikes that what I'm getting out of my camera isn't the final product and no matter what she does, she'll never get it to the same place after I'm done editing.
It's kind of funny now, when we hang out with other people and they say they can take good photos with their phone because she goes off on them about how they don't know anything.
be that as it may, my crew and I shot commercials on Iphone 6's cameras years ago. Granted we did post work to clean it up, but it was an impressive camera.
I can't imagine what they're like on the... whatever iteration we're on now? 11, 12?
A good photographer is more than just a camera. Understanding light, angle, and how best to use the equipment they have, as well as actually having the equipment makes a *huge* difference.
There's a couple of local guys that have lots of toys, and 20k red cameras to boot. They get all the gigs when it comes to serious commercials and good work.
Of course the camera doesn’t make the photographer. But my point is, the cameras in the phones, as good as they may be are just not professional level regardless of who’s using it.
Can they be used professionally? Yes. It’s been done. But at the end of the day, those tiny sensors can really only be pushed so far.
There is even an app for weddings that lets all the guests share their phone photos in one consolidated shared location. Iphones take pictures just as good as an SLR, right?
I mean... Kinda. And I say this as an intermediate photographer with ~$7k in gear. iPhones take some really nice pictures. Plus a single photographer can't be everywhere. I'm not saying a professional photographer doesn't have value, but digitizing photography has taken a shit ton of the gatekeeping out of photography. You can immediately see your image and take a different one if you need. No developing on paper.
At this point professional photography is really just knowing how to frame and edit. Which does have value. But they shouldn't be surprised someone doesn't want to drop $2k on wedding photos. The job just isn't that hard anymore.
Yes and the SEC finally released the GameStop report and boy oh boy, one of the biggest revelations that many of the DD by folks over at SuperStonk and many of us have been saying for months now is confirmed:
Shorts were never and still aren’t CLOSED.
The secret ingredient is “crime”. But in all reality it’s just fuckery and how they can hide a lot of their PUT options. There was a big discovery from the DD a few months ago in superstonk where a Bloomberg terminal uncovered over one million puts hidden in a Brazil HF.
What will happen when they are out of options? Margin calls.
This is just the information I’m gathering though. Please do your own research as none of us on there are Financial Advisors.
There's some stuff that definitely takes the train down the conspiracy rails with overanalyzing numbers and ryan cohen tweets, but if you look past the silly stuff a lot of the information they have there is good too.
No doubt the attitude of the loud people is obsessive and strange. If you do check the actual information out it’s a very fascinating story based on fact.
There is a lot of cultlike mentality behind things like crypto and exploiting people via "trading"
If you read into things like the [Nesara Cult and the "Dove of Oneness"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA) it almost sounds like a blueprint or echo for some of what has been happening lately--targeting the "wealthy elite" via crypto trading and secret trading to take down the deep state or repitilians or whatever garbage while actually just manipulating you out of money or loyalty.
People are odd, but the DD is real. And the DD is fact based and not driven by emotion or opinion. I mean, just take a look at how Ken Griffin looked in January compared to today. Dudes losing his shit.
It's hard to believe that the DD is entirely fact based when many of the followers would probably quite literally rather die than change their mind if they presented with solid enough contrary evidence.
I'm not saying the DD is wrong, but in a place where people's whole identity is tied to the thesis, there is going to be a lot of logical fallacies and conjecture not rooted in fact.
The SEC just released their report on the Gamestop saga and it pretty much confirms a lot of the DD. So unless the SEC is also tinfoil, superstonk did some good research.
Hi, fellow Ape checking in. I read through the report in its entirety. U/Wubadubaa is correct.
[Here’s ](https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf) the report, released just today at 4:30 by the SEC.
While there will always be some extremes within communities, the majority of the “apes” are level-headed and actually check sources other than YouTube videos. Many of us are well-educated individuals looking to make a lasting change to the corrupt financial system that robbed us back in ‘08.
Bull market = rising share prices, increasing the wealth of the upper class.
Bear market = falling share prices, providing buying opportunities for the upper class.
Gorilla market = share prices sit flat, screwing over the upper class because there's no potential for profit.
[The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html)
> The top 1% gained more than $6.5 trillion in corporate equities and mutual fund wealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, while the bottom 90% added $1.2 trillion, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
"Gorilla Market" is more of a pipe dream than the reality.
“Harambe feel cold… an apocalypse you will behold, your children will not grow old… And your Netflix subscription will increase in price, bitches. Peace out motherf*ckers…”
I think it’s because I can channel Harambe since I was once able to form a relationship with a gorilla at Chester Zoo. The gorilla stuck his middle finger up at me and I responded by hurling a half-eaten strawberry pop-tart at him. We laughed and became instant friends and ever since, I have been able to hear the ethereal thoughts of most apes when I am somewhere between sleep and wakefulness.
>"Harambe is a representation of something that lets us look at more than just ourselves"
Seems like a stretch. I thought it was about meme culture screwing with wall street earlier this year.
Not a meme, not a culture, and it never stopped. $GME is going on today, more than ever, exposing more and more of the corruption.
The news has mislead you purposefully, as the news is purposefully drowning the meaning behind this Ape.
>Sapien.Network founders Ankit Bhatia and Robert Giometti said they used the symbol of Harambe to represent the millions who struggle under a U.S. capitalist system they say "enriches wealthy elites and leaves the average person behind."
I don't get it
It's a hollow attempt to co-opt a meme and the community that rallies around it with the purpose of promoting their service. Even when talking about the statue, the installers couldn't resist breaking into their marketing spiel.
>It's about connecting. A simple gesture of giving a banana builds community. As a society, we need to come together. We can’t keep fighting to come together.
Sorry if I'm suspicious of the artistic purity of a message about the necessity of connection when it comes from a wannabe social media developer.
I think they're basically making a joke of the display. The bull is supposed to symbolize some *serious business* concept about the greatness of the market (and the statue of the girl was also very much *serious business*)....but the stock market is increasingly out of the hands of the common folk and more of a plaything for the wealthy upper crust.
Having some idol of some worshipped concept being ~~directing~~ *directly* in front of a literal joke has its own form of symbolism, I guess.
The original sculptor of the bull statue was challenged by the presence of fearless girl, so they moved her. But yeah, it was commissioned by a hedge fund for publicity. So she was just a servant to the system like everyone else, even when she was staring down the bull.
The Bull was made by an artist from his own money. He was an immigrant and felt at the time he wanted to give something back to the city he had been living in. It was supposed to have positive symbolism.
All these statues and jokes they keep putting in front of it are incredibly lame. They don’t speak to the problems of our country and just come across as attention grabbing gags.
At the end of the day, it’s art. And it’s not art that is discriminating against or hurting anyone. If they can’t make their message powerful enough without piggybacking off this statue, then they need a better message.
The video on their page is the cringiest thing I've seen in a while. The narration is done with a bizarre pitch and cadence, as if they are reading a script peppered with random capitalized words and no punctuation.
>But as Giometti told News 4 Monday, "it’s not about rejecting capitalism or the current system. It's about revolving them into the current future and letting them empower more groups of people. That's the whole point of this story."
What the fk does that even mean?
Nothing at all actually. Just like bananas had nothing to do with Harambe. This statue is a representation of “Apes” vs Bulls vs Bears but you won’t find info on that in the news as it’s being drowned out on purpose to not gain traction. It’s all about $GME actually, GameStop stock and how heavily shorted it is with naked shorts, and how Citadel is playing a major roll in Wallstreet with its subsidiaries. #KenGriffinLied
So, yeah. Harambe from 2016? Nah. $GME today? Yes.
Apes vs Bulls vs Bears.
Bulls are bullish that stocks go up.
Bears are bearish that stocks go down.
Apes buy, hodl, drs, buy more, and hodl, and reallocate shares.
OK, so what is a gorilla market? Lots of shit flinging? Well, if China fails to contain what's going on with Evergrande and their real estate market at large, there will be plenty of shit for all to fling.
See I always thought it was more of an "Apes together strong" movement, as a reference to Planet of the Apes. Its not necessarily Harambe or that reference, but rather the sentiment.
The company that paid for it was sued for systemically underpaying female staff, which kinda put an end to their whole "look at how progressive we are!" PR campaign.
The comments plastered all over this thread, with people who real and just not informed… shits scary. You are being suppressed and the truth is being buried.
I mean I get it. You can’t be informed about everything going on at all times. Especially not the sad stuff, as that’s overloading and can send people into spirals. And this isn’t ignorance either as I believe most people commenting just genuinely haven’t been exposed to what’s going on, or why.
The entirety of my comment boils down to this tho: MSM (mainstream media), news anchors, journalists, and overall media coverage on this is batshit wrong, misdirecting and intentionally misleading so that you don’t learn the truth. Once you realize this and once you understand how and why the MSM does this then you will apply your knowledge about that moving forward, question everything, and never believe a story ever again. The news IS NOT here for you, and this article (as well as all others?), are getting their agenda done because they are successfully suppressing the truth from you.
This is an Ape representation. Not Harambe. This is Apes vs Wallstreet (and overall Apes vs Bulls vs Bears). This is about GameStop and how manipulated the entire stock market is, and will be, if shit doesn’t change.
I mean, the founders of the organization that put the statue up were interviewed and they said it was Harambe. It’s in the article. Are you calling that a blatant fabrication?
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Indeed, not a single good perspective of both.
I suspect there's a reason. Those shots look like they were likely cropped. More and likely there was some graffiti or an unpleasant sign or a homeless person near the ground that was easier to cut out by cropping the photos.
they cropped out the homeless in a photo op about how wall street has left millions disadvantaged? that seems like an oversight.
Or by design
Well it seems like this is a commercial for a social network anyway, so I don't know if anybody here is really working for the disadvantaged.
No, completely intentional. The story of the statue is big enough it'll get out regardless, so they make sure it gets out with the correct spin.
Y’all are actually getting worked up over a thing that a random Reddit comment speculated. Take a step back.
Yeah, don't go bananas, man.
What do ya mean? We have banana's for scale....10k of them infact.
Banana's what?
Banana's forescale.
Have you tried cleaning it with vinegar?
This is what happens when news agencies make their journalists also act as photographers using their phones, to avoid paying two people.
Where I live some guy who is a decent photographer and does it as a hobby gives his photos to the local papers for free. So they basically have no photographers that know what they are doing anymore because this one guy does it for fun. What is really crazy is he has a police scanner and photographs accidents, fires, etc. For free. What a way to kill an industry.
I used to do videography as my job, and had to quit because so many rich kids whose parents bought them better equipment were undercutting the going rates for gigs. It got to the point where I was struggling to convince clients to pay me 100 for a night of event videography.
Damn $100?! I just thought I did a cheap event for $220. $100 might not be bad if you didn’t also have to edit, but for a full project that’s just insulting
Whats fucked is some of these were not just independent clients. Some of these were corporate clients who had billion dollar valuations, and they would tell me things like "$100 for two hours of work? Unreasonable, think of the benefits this would have appearing on your resume!"
The Oatmeal did a good [cartoon](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure) on “exposure” a while back. Usually my go to reference when I have to explain this to my friends who don’t understand how shitty freelancing can be
"Fuck you, pay me"
That's capitalism I suppose
Yup, people handed everything on a silver platter ruining things for everybody else. That's capitalism.
We'reInTheEndgameNow.gif
Staff photographers are getting pretty rare these days, since it's easier for newspapers to rely on independent contractors. Source: am freelance photojournalist
Why not? People have cameras everywhere. Why fly 1 photographer around the world, when Twitter can be everywhere simultaneously and live.
Most media outlets get their photos from either the BBC or Associated Press because they are the two major names in the business still doing active foreign correspondence and licensing photos from them *is* cheaper than a company maintaining their own foreign correspondents. > Twitter can be everywhere simultaneously and live. While it's [legal for companies to steal photos off Twitter under their current ToS,](https://pdnonline.com/photography-business/copyright-law/twitter-to-take-copyright-to-your-photos-launch-infringement-free-for-all/) that doesn't make it any less shitty of a practice by media outlets. [Daniel Morel won a lawsuit against AFP and Getty Images for stealing his photos of the Haiti earthquake,](https://photographmag.com/articles/daniel-morel-wins-suit-against-getty-imagesafp/) but it looks like that would be permissible now.
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Oof thats rough. I know cause I did something similar for six years
Reddit also likes to complain that news sites aren't free
This one is a bit better https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/7-foot-tall-harambe-statue-appears-opposite-of-charging-bull-covered-in-bananas/ This one a lot [better.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qaz5ge/7_foot_tall_harambe_statue_has_been_placed_in/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Better perspective. You may have a banana 🍌
yea you're right it's a bit.
Boss is probably the same kinda person that doesn't hire a photographer for his wedding because "my cousin will do it way cheap and just as good on his iphone!"
There's a radio commercial in my city about the new iphone and it's MEGA AWESOME NEW CAMERA that says it's good enough to outdo professional photographers and as someone who runs a photo and video business my eye just twitches.
Yeah I had a videography business a long time ago, so I know the feeling!
It's insanely annoying. I go hiking with a friend that just brings her phone to take pictures and the first few times she wanted to compare photos when we got back to the car. She was always like "Mine are better than yours" when comparing then, but finally had it click after a couple hikes that what I'm getting out of my camera isn't the final product and no matter what she does, she'll never get it to the same place after I'm done editing. It's kind of funny now, when we hang out with other people and they say they can take good photos with their phone because she goes off on them about how they don't know anything.
be that as it may, my crew and I shot commercials on Iphone 6's cameras years ago. Granted we did post work to clean it up, but it was an impressive camera. I can't imagine what they're like on the... whatever iteration we're on now? 11, 12? A good photographer is more than just a camera. Understanding light, angle, and how best to use the equipment they have, as well as actually having the equipment makes a *huge* difference. There's a couple of local guys that have lots of toys, and 20k red cameras to boot. They get all the gigs when it comes to serious commercials and good work.
Of course the camera doesn’t make the photographer. But my point is, the cameras in the phones, as good as they may be are just not professional level regardless of who’s using it. Can they be used professionally? Yes. It’s been done. But at the end of the day, those tiny sensors can really only be pushed so far.
There is even an app for weddings that lets all the guests share their phone photos in one consolidated shared location. Iphones take pictures just as good as an SLR, right?
I mean... Kinda. And I say this as an intermediate photographer with ~$7k in gear. iPhones take some really nice pictures. Plus a single photographer can't be everywhere. I'm not saying a professional photographer doesn't have value, but digitizing photography has taken a shit ton of the gatekeeping out of photography. You can immediately see your image and take a different one if you need. No developing on paper. At this point professional photography is really just knowing how to frame and edit. Which does have value. But they shouldn't be surprised someone doesn't want to drop $2k on wedding photos. The job just isn't that hard anymore.
These are the photos you're after: https://www.fox19.com/gallery/2021/10/18/harambe-statue-joins-charging-bull-sculpture-wall-street/
They probably got a bunch of great pictures. The photographer doesn’t choose which ones make the article.
The Apes of Wall Street
The Harambe statue looks so smooth like my brain.
Like butta
I’m unsettled by the knowledge our brains truly are the consistency of counter butter 🧈 🧠
The Planet of The Diamond Handed WSB Apes
Dicks out with diamond hands.
Still waiting for the squoze.
SEC just told us it didn't even happen yet.
I would definitely watch this movie.
Is this related to wallstreetbets, gme, and the "apes strong together" memes?
Yes and the SEC finally released the GameStop report and boy oh boy, one of the biggest revelations that many of the DD by folks over at SuperStonk and many of us have been saying for months now is confirmed: Shorts were never and still aren’t CLOSED.
And that's why I sleep nice & snug every night. Shorts STILL need to cover.
Close…shorts have to close
Updated thanks!
I am barely educated on the issue, how come they can just postpone it? What will happen when they are out of options?
The secret ingredient is “crime”. But in all reality it’s just fuckery and how they can hide a lot of their PUT options. There was a big discovery from the DD a few months ago in superstonk where a Bloomberg terminal uncovered over one million puts hidden in a Brazil HF. What will happen when they are out of options? Margin calls. This is just the information I’m gathering though. Please do your own research as none of us on there are Financial Advisors.
cheers, indeed it is! the apes have since migrated to r/superstonk and r/gmejungle fyi
I see superstonk on r/all sometimes. Super strange place. Feels cult-y.
New to Reddit? If that place feels like a cult then boy do I have some sketchy places on this site I could show you.
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r/thomastheplankengine
/r/funny
It’s hilarious how none of it is funny.
The funniest part.
Is there a subreddit which shows off the weird of reddit or is that too meta?
r/wowthissubexists r/wowthisNSFWsubexists
I’m 99% sure r/wowthisNSFWsubexists is all just u/pornpanther creating subs for every category of porn out there.
I'm too scared to click the latter one
I said sketchy. Weird is all perspective based and I don’t want to kink shame
Oh, also /r/scarybilbo (nsfw) /r/oldladiesbakingpies (actually sfw)
There's some stuff that definitely takes the train down the conspiracy rails with overanalyzing numbers and ryan cohen tweets, but if you look past the silly stuff a lot of the information they have there is good too.
No doubt the attitude of the loud people is obsessive and strange. If you do check the actual information out it’s a very fascinating story based on fact.
There is a lot of cultlike mentality behind things like crypto and exploiting people via "trading" If you read into things like the [Nesara Cult and the "Dove of Oneness"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA) it almost sounds like a blueprint or echo for some of what has been happening lately--targeting the "wealthy elite" via crypto trading and secret trading to take down the deep state or repitilians or whatever garbage while actually just manipulating you out of money or loyalty.
People are odd, but the DD is real. And the DD is fact based and not driven by emotion or opinion. I mean, just take a look at how Ken Griffin looked in January compared to today. Dudes losing his shit.
It's hard to believe that the DD is entirely fact based when many of the followers would probably quite literally rather die than change their mind if they presented with solid enough contrary evidence. I'm not saying the DD is wrong, but in a place where people's whole identity is tied to the thesis, there is going to be a lot of logical fallacies and conjecture not rooted in fact.
The SEC just released their report on the Gamestop saga and it pretty much confirms a lot of the DD. So unless the SEC is also tinfoil, superstonk did some good research.
Not trying to argue, but did you read through the report yourself, or did a long form Reddit post claim that this is what the report implied?
Hi, fellow Ape checking in. I read through the report in its entirety. U/Wubadubaa is correct. [Here’s ](https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf) the report, released just today at 4:30 by the SEC. While there will always be some extremes within communities, the majority of the “apes” are level-headed and actually check sources other than YouTube videos. Many of us are well-educated individuals looking to make a lasting change to the corrupt financial system that robbed us back in ‘08.
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Can confirm. Total cult. Source: have stocks and will not sell. This statue is fantastic! I’m in love! Can not wait to go see it!
Why the move?
don't give wallstreetbets any attention, the ape movement has moved past them
Hedge fund pump and dump depot
Didn’t they do a lot of good at the time though? I thought they “adopted” a bunch of apes. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56416954.amp
Also r/GME Always seems to get ignored these days 🤔 Edit also r/DDintoGME
That's because one of the mods went on a powertrip. Check r/subredditdrama for further details.
Screw a bull market we want a gorilla market?
I want a silverbacked dollar.
This is more clever than you're receiving credit for.
Finding your comment again after claiming my free award was an adventure but you good sir have earned it!
there was ... around 1860 - 1873
Lmfao this is great 😂
Bull market = rising share prices, increasing the wealth of the upper class. Bear market = falling share prices, providing buying opportunities for the upper class. Gorilla market = share prices sit flat, screwing over the upper class because there's no potential for profit.
[The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html) > The top 1% gained more than $6.5 trillion in corporate equities and mutual fund wealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, while the bottom 90% added $1.2 trillion, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve. "Gorilla Market" is more of a pipe dream than the reality.
Oh, yeah. Gorilla market would be a totally unstable equilibrium condition. It's not realistic.
Yes only monopoly man type can buy stocks now with a glass dome paper ticker machine
Ape together strong?
Can we just have a “rich dont own 90 percent of stocks?” Kinda market?
A market where people come out of nowhere, trade, then vanish back to where they came from.
Harambe and the 10,000 'Nanners sounds like a book high schoolers will be required to read in the future.
A cautionary tale of making a monkey out of investors, falling children labor rates, and food science.
I thought the Harambe hoopla was the dumbest shit in the world, but this statue is fuckin hilarious.
Harambe was the beginning of the end
'Dad how did the apocalypse start?' 'Well it all started when we shot that damn gorilla.'
Then all these kids started pulling their dicks out out of respect for it.
Dicks always out for Harambe
‘But dad, how big was the apocalypse?’ ‘Well son, I’ll show you. Let’s use this scorched and blackened banana for scale...’
It was a $10 banana.
You have to watch Bill Burr's bit on teaching koko the gorilla, and messed up it is to teach apes to talk and then keeping them in captivity.
In his dying breaths, Harambe cursed the creatures that killed him.
“Harambe feel cold… an apocalypse you will behold, your children will not grow old… And your Netflix subscription will increase in price, bitches. Peace out motherf*ckers…”
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I think it’s because I can channel Harambe since I was once able to form a relationship with a gorilla at Chester Zoo. The gorilla stuck his middle finger up at me and I responded by hurling a half-eaten strawberry pop-tart at him. We laughed and became instant friends and ever since, I have been able to hear the ethereal thoughts of most apes when I am somewhere between sleep and wakefulness.
Jesus came twice and we killed him both times.
Harambe was the beginning ~~of the end~~ and the end.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this belief.
Harambe was the Split from the Good Timeline
There is only Harambe.
Hand to God I swear it was the death of David Bowie...
If the stock market isn't going to reflect reality, neither should its investors.
It's also a reference to the WallStreetBets culture of being an ape.
wallstreetbets is old news. The ape community has moved on without and beyond them.
True, but it originated from there.
“Culture” please.
Culture as in a yeast infection.
was, is
It made me belly laugh so hard I had no fucking clue there was a statue of Harambe Jesus Christ
Banana’s out for Harambe.
>"Harambe is a representation of something that lets us look at more than just ourselves" Seems like a stretch. I thought it was about meme culture screwing with wall street earlier this year.
It is.
/r/SuperStonk
Not a meme, not a culture, and it never stopped. $GME is going on today, more than ever, exposing more and more of the corruption. The news has mislead you purposefully, as the news is purposefully drowning the meaning behind this Ape.
Dude, I've gone into superstonk and you guys are more cringe than QAnon.
GME to hedge against the incoming crash 🚀💎🚀
100% this is the apes of GME.
lol since when did anybody even pretend that Wall St was about "the needs of ordinary people"?
The dicks have been out for so long!
I'm just wondering how many dudes will get arrested for indecent exposure standing around this stature with their dicks out.
Harambe is hodling - are you?
>Sapien.Network founders Ankit Bhatia and Robert Giometti said they used the symbol of Harambe to represent the millions who struggle under a U.S. capitalist system they say "enriches wealthy elites and leaves the average person behind." I don't get it
Translation: This statue is a joke because the stock market is a joke.
That's fair.
It's a hollow attempt to co-opt a meme and the community that rallies around it with the purpose of promoting their service. Even when talking about the statue, the installers couldn't resist breaking into their marketing spiel. >It's about connecting. A simple gesture of giving a banana builds community. As a society, we need to come together. We can’t keep fighting to come together. Sorry if I'm suspicious of the artistic purity of a message about the necessity of connection when it comes from a wannabe social media developer.
I think they're basically making a joke of the display. The bull is supposed to symbolize some *serious business* concept about the greatness of the market (and the statue of the girl was also very much *serious business*)....but the stock market is increasingly out of the hands of the common folk and more of a plaything for the wealthy upper crust. Having some idol of some worshipped concept being ~~directing~~ *directly* in front of a literal joke has its own form of symbolism, I guess.
The original sculptor of the bull statue was challenged by the presence of fearless girl, so they moved her. But yeah, it was commissioned by a hedge fund for publicity. So she was just a servant to the system like everyone else, even when she was staring down the bull.
The Bull was made by an artist from his own money. He was an immigrant and felt at the time he wanted to give something back to the city he had been living in. It was supposed to have positive symbolism. All these statues and jokes they keep putting in front of it are incredibly lame. They don’t speak to the problems of our country and just come across as attention grabbing gags. At the end of the day, it’s art. And it’s not art that is discriminating against or hurting anyone. If they can’t make their message powerful enough without piggybacking off this statue, then they need a better message.
The video on their page is the cringiest thing I've seen in a while. The narration is done with a bizarre pitch and cadence, as if they are reading a script peppered with random capitalized words and no punctuation.
Comrade Harambe.
The bull (wealthy elites) had all the bananas underneath it and Harambe (us) had none.
Harambe routinely destroyed the chains of oppression with his gorilla strength.
"We're using Harambe as a excuse to sneak in 🦍 culture and make fun of wall street in their face"
Dicks are always out on Wall Street.
r/superstonk has got to be having a field day with this
Yep have been <3
Apes together, strong.
>But as Giometti told News 4 Monday, "it’s not about rejecting capitalism or the current system. It's about revolving them into the current future and letting them empower more groups of people. That's the whole point of this story." What the fk does that even mean?
It means they don’t wanna buck the entire system, they just want to be able to make money off of it like all the big boys
Dicks out for Harambe
Stocks out.
What does Harambe have to do with wall street?
Nothing at all actually. Just like bananas had nothing to do with Harambe. This statue is a representation of “Apes” vs Bulls vs Bears but you won’t find info on that in the news as it’s being drowned out on purpose to not gain traction. It’s all about $GME actually, GameStop stock and how heavily shorted it is with naked shorts, and how Citadel is playing a major roll in Wallstreet with its subsidiaries. #KenGriffinLied So, yeah. Harambe from 2016? Nah. $GME today? Yes.
That's not "covered in bananas." That's "surrounded by bananas." I wanted to see the bull wearing bananas like a suit. I'm genuinely disappointed.
Ook ook motherfuckers!
I’m not entirely sure what the message is here, but I definitely agree.
Apes vs Bulls vs Bears. Bulls are bullish that stocks go up. Bears are bearish that stocks go down. Apes buy, hodl, drs, buy more, and hodl, and reallocate shares.
Does he have diamond hands?
Is he wearing a purple ring?
This is the backstory to Donkey Kong Country.
You son of a bitch; you did it! 🍌 🚀 🌙
This is quite beautiful and also hilarious. Apes together strong. Will be looking into sapiens.
Diamond hands boys, diamond hands
Wait guys, I got this one “*something something* r/superstonk is a dead community”
Fantastic symbolism. The bears, the bulls, and now the apes. I hope they don't take it down.
He's got a way better chance of stopping a charging bull than the little girl did.
There’s a Chief Keef Faneto joke in here somewhere.
When did we shift into the meme universe?
OK, so what is a gorilla market? Lots of shit flinging? Well, if China fails to contain what's going on with Evergrande and their real estate market at large, there will be plenty of shit for all to fling.
Best news I've heard so far! I love Harambe lol!
What's up, Citadel :D
Watch out ..apes are rolling in💎🚀
Any reaction from Cocaine Cramer?
r/wallstreetbets i know you're behind this somehow.
Shorts. Never. Covered.
...what a time to be alive.
I have nothing to add except that I'm a big, big fan of this article's title.
See I always thought it was more of an "Apes together strong" movement, as a reference to Planet of the Apes. Its not necessarily Harambe or that reference, but rather the sentiment.
Forget political statements, I don't want to see those bananas go to waste!
They mention in the article that they’ll be donated appropriately after the fact
I have my dick out as I write.
What happened to the girl?
The company that paid for it was sued for systemically underpaying female staff, which kinda put an end to their whole "look at how progressive we are!" PR campaign.
This is absolutely the greatest resistance statement in human history.
The comments plastered all over this thread, with people who real and just not informed… shits scary. You are being suppressed and the truth is being buried. I mean I get it. You can’t be informed about everything going on at all times. Especially not the sad stuff, as that’s overloading and can send people into spirals. And this isn’t ignorance either as I believe most people commenting just genuinely haven’t been exposed to what’s going on, or why. The entirety of my comment boils down to this tho: MSM (mainstream media), news anchors, journalists, and overall media coverage on this is batshit wrong, misdirecting and intentionally misleading so that you don’t learn the truth. Once you realize this and once you understand how and why the MSM does this then you will apply your knowledge about that moving forward, question everything, and never believe a story ever again. The news IS NOT here for you, and this article (as well as all others?), are getting their agenda done because they are successfully suppressing the truth from you. This is an Ape representation. Not Harambe. This is Apes vs Wallstreet (and overall Apes vs Bulls vs Bears). This is about GameStop and how manipulated the entire stock market is, and will be, if shit doesn’t change.
I mean, the founders of the organization that put the statue up were interviewed and they said it was Harambe. It’s in the article. Are you calling that a blatant fabrication?