The earliest known iterations of the “always has been” meme originally popped up on a 4chan board around August of 2018, according to Know Your Meme, and involved crude MC-Paint style drawings.

Topline The viral “Ohio” social media meme—used to describe something as weird—has rapidly grown in popularity and gained a total of 10.2 million likes, comments, shares and other ...

The meme originates from when social media users would post crazy videos and news articles of things happening in Ohio during 2021 and 2022, and people would comment “only in Ohio”—similar ...

A 2016 post on Tumbler went viral, launching Ohio into meme stardom. The image showed a broken bus stop's marquee that read, "Ohio will be eliminated," according to Yahoo.

A 2016 post on Tumbler went viral, launching Ohio into meme stardom. The image showed a broken bus stop's marquee that read, "Ohio will be eliminated," according to Yahoo.