About
“Local Man Ruins Everything” is an image macro meme taken from the television show The Simpsons. The meme involves photoshopping someone’s image into the newspaper article under the headline “Local Man Ruins Everything.”
Origins
The meme originated from an episode of The Simpsons titled “Jaws Wired Shut,” which first aired on January 27th, 2002. The episode features a framed newspaper article with a picture of Homer Simpson under the headline “Local Man Ruins Everything.” The image first appeared online when Redditor oopsifell posted it to the r/Simpsons[1] subreddit on February 4th, 2013.
Spread
The image was added to the r/Simpsons Reddit on February 7th, 2014, by Redditor cayal3.
Notable examples
Related Memes
Florida Man
Florida Man is a Twitter feed that curates news headline descriptions of bizarre domestic incidents involving a male subject residing in the state of Florida. The tweets are meant to be humorously read as if they were perpetrated by a single individual dubbed “the world’s worst superhero.”
Search Interest
External References
[1]Reddit – Local Man Ruins Everything
[2]Reddit – Local Man Ruins Everything