A trivial over a workweek ago , sellervaluestampsincposted a itemization on eBay for a Flaming Hot Cheeto mistily resembling Harambe . On Monday , this needs became a viral report due to its outrageous price — as of 11:45PM , the bidding is currently at$97,600 .
Cheeto Harambe is the perfect image for internet virality at its bad . In short , it is very , very unintelligent .
For anyone who sleep through 2016 , in May a Gorilla gorilla namedHarambewas shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a four - year - old male child fell into his enclosure . The late ape was wide mourned , and soon he became a viral superstar , give birth the “ Dicks Out For Harambe ” social movement .
In meme years , Harambe is ancient history . The lifecycle of viral message moves quick — a joke can only be funny for so long , and that ’s fine . We no longer need to sing about Harambe because we already made our jokes . We did our unfit tweet and our YouTube parodies . Let ’s move on .
The Cheeto is unsophisticated and commonplace ; it ’s what makes the tale far-out enough to be written about . In the least insidious manner potential , it play on the figure offinding god on your food . It tries too hard .
Ebay bidding wars for absurdly banal products have a long internet history . direction back in 2004 , a woman solda while of toastresembling the Virgin Mary on eBay for $ 28,000 . In 2015 , bids on an eBay listing fora perambulator with a humorous descriptionclimbed to almost $ 200,000 . Last year , after “ Damn Daniel ” run viral , a deal of eBay listingsclaiming to be the original blank Vans pour down up — on some of the vans , the bidding reach over$300,000 .
It is , however , unlikely that the winning bidder of these dim vendue actually pay up . accord to eBay’suser accord , “ You are responsible for reading the full point listing before wee-wee a bid or committal to buy . ” But the site does n’t have any real way to implement that . I ’m dubitable of the actuality of someone shell out six - figures on a Cheeto . And since meme come and go at lightning stop number , we never really find out how most of these viral eBay actually act as out . Without validation of purchase , these viral auctions reach a fresh level of insipid indulgence .
The inanity of Cheeto Harambe is , of course , only relevant if the media deems it newsworthy . But blogger got ta blog — I’m part of the trouble , I know — and thus we get dozen of article about a potentially fake auction starring the most play - out meme in late internet story .
With a careful balance of meaninglessness and irrelevancy , Cheeto Harambe embodies the net at its least suspect and interesting . It ’s a meme gone skew-whiff , and clearly , I will not stand for it .
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