Harambe, the internet's favorite dead gorilla, may appear at a music festival later this year as a hologram
The Day For Night music festival in Houston, Texas, is a three-day event that blends music with art installations both indoors and out. You'll see artists you may have heard of, like RZA or Travis Scott, alongside large-scale projections and custom-built structures.
And if you look at this year's line-up, which was announced on Wednesday, you'll notice one particular standout: Harambe, the internet's favorite dead gorilla.
We first spotted this news on The Daily Dot.
Harambe, for those unfamiliar, was a gorilla that was shot and killed by a zoo worker in the Cincinnati Zoo earlier this year when a three-year-old boy climbed into his enclosure. But tributes to Harambe quickly turned the gorilla into a meme: People used Harambe to create fake, over-the-top tributes - the more extreme the mourning, the funnier the meme. Just Google image search "Harambe meme" and you'll see what I mean.
Harambe will be used to close out the Day For Night festival, which runs December 16-18. But it won't be a fake gorilla, or a guy in a gorilla suit, or even an empty Harambe casket. It'll be a hologram of Harambe.
We've reached out to The Day For Night festival for more information about the Harambe hologram. The company was not immediately available for comment, but we'll update the story when we hear back.
The Harambe hologram sounds reminiscent of the Tupac Shakur hologram that "performed" at the Coachella music festival in 2012, which you can see here below.