What many people are saying is correct, but it’s only half the story. Since, well, ever, people have made fun of Ohio because it’s boring and had absolutely nothing to do in it. There was this popular meme where the destinations to see in Ohio was meeting Scott the Woz, a YouTuber who makes a show of the same name, and immediately leaving.
Eventually, there was that trope of “Only in Detroit” memes of absurd things getting stolen. Eventually, the format branched off into other states with things they’re known for, including ironic memes of Ohio having nothing to do, and being absurdly boring. Eventually, someone subverted the Ohio joke and had a video of something…very strange, and unnatural happening in Ohio, with the phrase “Only in Ohio”. People loved the subversion so much, everyone joined in, and now the original point has been lost, now, to meme culture, Ohio is now a place where aliens invade monsters ravage the street, and dogs have three legs.
Once heard a joke that many of our famous astronauts come from Ohio because there’s just something about the state that makes people want to flee the planet.
What do you mean by “there’s absolutely nothing to do in it”?
They meant “Ohio is boring and there is nothing to do there,” I believe
That doesn’t make sense
Not from Ohio, but from what I understand the things to do in Ohio are as follows:
- Grow corn
- Grow soy
I couldn’t speak for rural Ohio
Not really, it’s not a Midwest state, really. I’ve lived all over the US and settled in Cleveland area. The people are nice, it’s beautiful, and not ultra expensive to live here yet. The government is kind of shitty and if you go to the rural parts there are Trump flags, but if you stick to cities and suburbs it’s nice.
besides all of the tangible reasons to use Ohio as a punchline, it’s also just a funny sounding name. most Ohio jokes could be made about anywhere in the midwest, but “Ohio” sounds comical on its own.
there’s nothing inherently funny about what the spleen does, but it does sound pretty funny when you say it out loud
Ohio always starts me singing the snow white dwarf song
Ohayou gozaimasu!
Ohio is a cosmic motif throughout space-time. You could travel across the universe and find a place that looks like Ohio. Also it fucking sucks.
Similar to what others have said, tough i don’t know that the specific meme trend is right now.
A big thing people say though is ‘ohio is so boring/bad/terrible people decide to leave the planet’ because so many astronauts are from ohio. On Google maps when you enter other states it does a ‘Welcome to BlahBlah’, and for Ohio the little symbol is an astronaut
It’s working, I’m already looking for apartments in Ohio. This is how you distribute the population in a country.
I thought the joke was originally that ohio is the most mid state imaginable, it’s not hell like Florida or anything like that.
So what is it all about?
I looked it up a while ago, and I guess someone said something in Ohio and now it’s funny. Which it is, of course.
I’m in that corner with you
Ahhh so Ohio is like Victoria, Australia ! Got it !
I don’t think the joke is “Ohio is the best state in the US”…
LMAO, Nice try mexican :P
Good on you for helping those not so fortunate to understand and feel included 🥇
Made-u in Ohio!
Everyone is wrong, this is my villan origin story:
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