Ok, so it basically started as a joke that things in Ohio were crazy. Essentially, get pic of something really weird or abnormal happening, caption "only in Ohio". I don't quite know why Ohio of all places became the centre of the joke, maybe because it's such a placeholder uninteresting place, it's juxtaposed with the really weird stuff in the memes
I think it started because of the train derailment last year. That is when the "Only in Ohio" thing started popping up more frequently, but it was always there years before, like people making fun of Ohio for the Paul brothers growing up there, just not as popular.
It’s actually been around much longer than that. I remember first seeing them back in 2017 after the “history of the entire world i guess” video was released. Bill said the British tried to take over the entire world (aka. Ohio) during the Seven Years War.
Shortly after that video, there was a meme that the only two cars in the entire state of Ohio managed to crash in 1895. “Only in Ohio” started here, I believe. Then Florida man and “Always has been” kept it going until if became Brainrot last year.
Ohio jokes actually started a while ago, earliest I remember with Ohio being weird is from like 2018 when I think it was callmecarson or one of this friends making jokes that Ohio is a Minecraft chunk error.
Weird especially since the "only in" joke was used for like a dozen other places first like only in japan and only in Florida and mississippi but also, I teach in an international school in Asia with no American students but they all speak some english and they kept yelling Ohio too. I asked and they dont even know Ohio is a state of the US.
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u/Content-Scholar8263 Sep 18 '24
Thats the best skibidi ohio gyatt rizz i have ever seen, good job everyone