If you have been living under a rock, 2016 was the year for Harambe. The story is, in the Cincinnati Zoo a 3 year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and was dragged by the silverback gorilla. The zoo worker was afraid that Harambe might kill the boy, so he shot and killed Harambe, thus the meme of 2016 was born.

Millennials everywhere paid their respects to the now deceased gorilla by tricking Google into naming a street after him, crafting hundreds of tweets in the gorillas honor and voting him the 2016 election. Reports claim as many as 15,000 aAmerican citizens cast votes for the gorilla.

As every meme does, Harambe died down and people move onto the next meme. Obviously Harambe has a special place in everyone's heart because someone purchased a Flaming Hot Cheeto that resembles Harambe for $99,000. Yes, $99,000.

Listen, I loved that gorilla as much as the next person did 6 months ago. I even tweeted for him but $99,000? Some of the appeal with memes is that you will never get bored. Changes every couple of months to something just as fun as the last but you have immortalized a gorilla for the amount of money that people pay for homes. Let Harambe die in peace guys.

But instead of doing something useful with that money, you bought a Cheeto. Let's all take a collective sigh for everyone is struggling to pay student loans, bills, etc. right now because just writing this article makes me sigh. To the person who now has this cheeto, can you pay for my tuition? Pretty please?

Let's face it, if you're using your money to buy a Cheeto, maybe that money should be in someone else's possession, anyone else's possession really. If you can't help a girl out, I understand. Maybe donate the money to a charity, put it in the stock market, save it but please never again buy a dead meme.