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“ Football in Ohio ”, “ Delivery Man in Ohio ”, “ Only in Ohio ”, “ Being Born in Ohio ” and others: have you ever opened TikTok and other social networks and found videos or content related to Ohio, accompanied by the hashtag #onlyinohio ? For some time now, some videos and ironic content on the American state have been shooting on the platforms. This is a new TikTok trend, also present on Instagram and Twitter, which started from the United States and has recently arrived in Italy. People or animals behaving strangely, soccer players shaking hands with a ghost on the pitch, missing their shot with an empty net or managing to score with improbable shots: for some strange reason Ohio in these memes it is always associated with singular situations or with people, animals or places that have a run-down appearance.TikTok content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Ohio's origin of irony
But why does this state get associated with these pictures? The trend would have originated from a meme on Tumblr dating back to 2016: according to what we read on Know Your Meme , the platform that collects trends that have gone viral over the years and their history, a user of the platform named screenshotofdespair would have started the meme Ohio vs the World by posting a photo of a bus stop screen that read “ Ohio will be eliminated ”, Ohio will be eliminated. Obviously, the writing was referring to the bus stop, but the post started a series of memes, and trends, then revisited, which have come up to today.Three years later, in 2019, another meme was published, then taken up and transformed on other social networks, in which we see an astronaut dressed in the colors of the US flag discovers, looking at the Earth from space , that the emerged lands are actually all Ohio and pronounces the phrase “ Wait, it's all Ohio? ”. His companion, who instead wears the colors of the Ohio flag, pointing a gun at him replies "Always has been".
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