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100 Men vs a Gorilla

Whether a hundred unarmed men could beat one silverback. A month of serious tactical debate followed by MrBeast offering to stage it, which ended things.

Peak
Cause of death
Overexposure
First sighting
Twitter, @DreamChasnMike
Life & death · 2024–2030
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PEAK 2025
BORN · April 2025
DIED · May 2025
NOW · 2026

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Memory @dotcom_debris · Coroner 31 Oct 2026

Somebody in my house set the family computer's wallpaper to something about 100 Men vs a Gorilla. It stayed for years after anybody thought it was funny, because nobody knew how to change it.

Correction @gopher_hole · Archivist Under review 6 Mar 2026

First sighting is wrong. Twitter is where it was first noticed, not where it started. There is an earlier instance I can document, and it is not on the same platform.

Definition @ascii_widow · Archivist 21 Feb 2026

The one thing missing from the headnote: 100 Men vs a Gorilla landed differently on people who had been online since the 2020s than on anyone who arrived later, and the later arrivals were the ones who spread it.

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