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Like it or not, it's looking like memes are going to be one of the current generation's crowning cultural legacies. People will look back at Salt Bae and Socially Awkward Penguin with the same kind of reverence and fascination that we have when we look at Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, or dirty graffiti from Ancient Rome. But the internet is a cruel mistress, and behind a lot of those image macros, misjudged tweets, and embarrassing videos lie some very real and very damaging consequences for some very real humans. So if people do look back at our memes with any kind of anthropological curiosity in the future, they really ought to know the full, naked truth about viral superstardom and the damage it can leave in its wake. Let's help them out with that.

Harambe

Among other monumental bummers, 2016 will be remembered as a particularly bad year for high-profile deaths, with the sheer volume of celebrity losses reaching almost absurd levels over the course of the year. In the middle of all this was Harambe, the 17-year-old silverback gorilla who was shot dead after a 4-year-old boy climbed into his enclosure in the Cincinnati Zoo. While the incident initially inspired a seemingly genuine outpouring of sadness and anger, this soon gave way to increasingly ironic memorializing and a veritable bounty of meme goodness. But for a while there, the outrage was very real.

Among those targeted were the Cincinnati Zoo's staff, with zoo director Thane Maynard's Twitter account getting hacked a couple times and bombarded with Harambe memes during the period. In an email to the Associated Press, Maynard expressed his staff's immense grief over the death of the gorilla and how the constant memes were making it difficult for them to mourn their loss properly and move on.

But the continuum of blame and harassment really leaned most heavily on the child's mother, Michelle Gregg. As reported by the BBC, Gregg suffered a torrent of harassment online, including death threats.

Wentworth Miller's weight gain

Celebrities are certainly not immune to the ways of the meme-makers, and quite often they're more than happy to play along. Even Sad Keanu earned a seal of approval from the man himself. But sometimes things are a little more complicated, like when Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller found himself the subject of a meme poking fun at his weight gain in March 2016. Originally posted by the LAD Bible on its Facebook page, the meme consisted of a promo pic of Miller from his Prison Break days side-by-side with a more recent photo of the actor sporting a slightly paunchier frame. The accompanying caption read 'When you break out of prison and find out about McDonald's monopoly...'

It couldn't have come at a worse time for Miller, who was suicidal during this period and said the first time he saw the meme pop up in his feed, 'it hurt to breathe.' He took the opportunity to speak openly about the struggles he'd been going through at the time and throughout his life, and to encourage those facing the same struggles to reach out for help. The Lad Bible subsequently took the post down and issued a public apology to the actor.

Pepe the Frog

This anthropomorphized little green dude began life innocently enough as a character in a 2005 comic strip called 'Boy's Night' and became a similarly benign internet meme in the late 2000s. Eventually he started hanging out with the wrong crowd, though, and became synonymous with the 2016 U.S. presidential election after being co-opted by the alt-right movement.

The creator of the character, artist Matt Furie, described the hateful appropriation of his work as his 'worst nightmare ... to be tangled in forever with a symbol of hate.' As Vice reported in September 2017, he spoke out vehemently against it and tried to take legal action against a number of online personalities in an effort to enforce his intellectual property and reclaim the peaceful little guy, but with little luck.

Ultimately Furie managed to symbolically sever ties with the character by killing him off in a new strip. As banal as it might seem to some, it can't have been easy for an artist to watch one of his creations become so thoroughly misrepresented, then try for months to reclaim it, only to concede bitter defeat in the end. Feels bad, man.

Star Wars Kid

Way back in 2002, 14-year-old Ghislain Raza filmed himself practicing some slick lightsaber moves with a golf ball retriever in his school's AV room. The video found its way online in 2003, and Raza inadvertently became one of the first bona fide internet celebrities. Crucially though, the video was uploaded without his permission, and Raza also became one of the first and most high-profile victims of cyberbullying as a result.

The bullying sucked in real life, too. Speaking to Maclean's 10 years later, Raza said classmates would climb on tables to hurl insults at him. Being told he should commit suicide was a regular occurrence. Raza ultimately prevailed and has acted as a model of solidarity and perseverance for those who might be going through the same thing. As one of the first to ever be exposed to that kind of insanity without any kind of map or model to help him navigate it, it might be said that he represents this form of triumph better than anyone else. He and his parents sued those responsible for uploading the video and received an undisclosed settlement. Raza now has a law degree, and he has actively worked to be a source of support and understanding for other victims of cyberbullying. Now that's how it's done.

Jason Russell, the man behind Kony 2012

Slacktivism or clicktivism or other online proselytizing can come across as ultimately self-serving unless the activists have actually been affected by the issues they're outraged over, or at least intend to do something about them. For this renewed skepticism, we largely have Kony 2012 to thank.

In 2012, activist and filmmaker Jason Russell posted a video online as part of a campaign against Ugandan militia leader and wanted war criminal Joseph Kony (above). Titled 'Kony 2012,' the video accumulated more than 100 million views online in six days, leading Time to designate it the most viral video ever. Then things got weird.

It wasn't long before 'Kony 2012' became something of a punchline. Russell and his movement were criticized for misrepresenting the facts and painting an oversimplified picture of the situation in Uganda, and for receiving lots of donations but not actually achieving anything. As reported by The Guardian in 2013, Russell ran himself ragged trying to defend the campaign to the media and the angry hordes online in the days after the viral explosion, and his mental wellbeing took a hammering, culminating in a very public and very naked mental breakdown on the streets of San Diego. He was detained and hospitalized, and cited 'extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration' as the cause in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. The movement petered out. Kony is still at large.

Dog Poop Girl/gae-ttong-nyue

Online immortality through meme creation wasn't always such a constant danger. But before we knew it, camera phones were everywhere and our most public and least endearing moments would forever be saddled with the threat of a virtual tarring and feathering. Sporting one of the more unfortunate monikers on this list, Dog Poop Girl's story is just one early example of this paradigm shift.

It's 2005, and a woman's dog has defecated on the subway in Seoul, South Korea. She makes no attempt to pick it up, fellow commuters are agitated, and one takes a picture and posts it online. The outr

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