According to Know Your Meme, treating Ohio as a joke started in 2016 after the meme "Ohio vs the world" went viral on Tumblr. User @screenshotsofdespair posted a photo of a digital marquee in an ...

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.

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 idea went viral, making the rounds on Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram. By 2019, this Ohio-centric joke had also evolved into the “ Wait, it’s all Ohio? Always has been ” meme.

Welcome to the absurdity of the “always has been” meme, also known as the “Wait, it’s all Ohio?” meme, which found its form in 2018 and has been a surreal staple of the internet ever since.

Ohio lost 179,600 factory jobs between July 2000 and October 2003, according to the National Association of Manufacturers, one out of every six such jobs in the state.