A statue of the Cincinnati Zoo’s great ape, killed in 2016, has been placed in front of New York’s Charging Bull to show that the US economy has become “a banana.”–
He seems to have found someone to talk to. the Charging Bull, the aggressive bronze bull of Wall Street, which represents the strength of the American financial markets, is now confronted with an imposing statue of a gorilla. Installed since Monday near the New York Stock Exchange, the more than 2 meters high work represents Harambe, a great ape from the Cincinnati Zoo (Ohio), killed in 2016 when a 3-year-old boy fell in his enclosure. The accident, filmed, had gone viral and his death had rocked the internet, overtaking animal rights activists.
Blind capitalist system
Once again, Harambe has been on social media since the start of the week. The gorilla statue was brought back by Sapien Network, a media platform, and 10,000 bananas were placed under the bull’s hooves. The goal ? Show that Wall Street has become a banana, symbol of the blind capitalist system which “Enriches the elites and leaves normal people behind”, explained the co-founders of Sapien Network to NBC News.
“Harambe is a representation of something that allows us to look at more than ourselves… A simple gesture of donating a banana builds a community. As a society, we must come together ”, justify the authors of the coup de com fruitier. The 10,000 bananas will later be donated to local food banks, a way for the organizers to highlight the disparity in wealth.
The gorilla is not the first random use of its image. In 2019, the billionaire who wants to colonize Mars, Elon Musk, had released a rap in his homage, RIP Harambe : “Amen amen, RIP Harambe, we smoke maid in the gorilla zoo, and we think of you.”
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