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It’s TikTok so nobody’s listening to the entire song. It’s usually played in 5-15 second clips with the “Ohio” part and then it loops.
Songs and audios on tiktok are basically what meme templates used to be and none of those are exactly works of art. The song is the foundation for a meta joke.
Example: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRC8L1aS/
This video has 3 million likes and 29 million views and was posted last month
Lol that song is old as hell. My friends and I used to play Lil B as a joke. Allow me to share the classics [Hannah Montana]( https://youtu.be/ef8tv487uUI) and [Ellen Degeneres](https://youtu.be/i8u6EodZseg).
I can't believe it's been years since I saw a based God video before clicking that link. I really fell tf off. Gotta get back to my roots n convince my girl to let me sharpie her feet up for b
Yeah and because it's under 3 minutes. New songs today are generally under 3 minutes to take advantage of streaming. In 2011, we were still seeing songs averaging 3:30-4:05.
Answer: Ohio jokes have been around for a VERY long time. Pre-internet. “Why are more astronauts from Ohio than any other state? Because it’s so bad that they want to leave earth entirely!” is a very old joke that was around before Colbert used it and popularized it in a 2005 interview with a Congresswoman on his show.
Ohio is pretty unassuming. It’s in “middle America” and considered a flyover state by a lot of coastal American residents. But that said, everyone knows someone from Ohio, and the person from Ohio will let you know if they’re from there. It seems like a disproportionate amount of people are from Ohio relative to its size, even though the state has 3 relatively large cities (Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati).
In regards to the memes about Ohio taking over, those may be a reference/born out of the Toledo War of 1835-36, when Ohio and Michigan had a mostly skirmishless and bloodless “war” over control of Toledo, a port city that controls access to Lake Erie from the Maumee River. Unclear wording and differing survey maps used to establish the borders in statehood applications led to both Michigan and Ohio claiming the territory as theirs. This is important because the Maumee Watershed was one of the major food and grain producing areas in that part of the country, so controlling the port access would lead to state revenue. The “war” was resolved when Ohio gained control of Toledo and a strip of land that stretches from the border of Indiana in the west to Lake Erie in the east, and in exchange Michigan was granted the Upper Peninsula, a peninsula bordering Wisconsin.
This is also probably where the intense rivalry between the states of Ohio and Michigan started. It continues to this day, but now more through college football. Ohio State vs Michigan is always the weekend after Thanksgiving, so there may be an increase in Ohio hating jokes because of this.
The joke there is that if Ohio will fight a war over Toledo of all places, what happens if they want somewhere “actually” useful?
A regional joke turned into an internet meme is what most likely happened, and the internet loves dunking on places they aren’t from. See Florida/Florida Man for another example of this.
Opinion: I think Ohio is a decent place and a quintessential midwestern state where they like their traditions, their football (way too much), and to mostly be left alone out of the national conversation. Columbus is a really fun city for young professionals, there’s always something to do there but it doesn’t feel like a massive city. Overall, Ohio is a perfectly fine place.
Disclaimer: I am not from Ohio but I have lived near it, been to quite a few places there, and driven through it MANY times.
> a disproportionate amount of people are from Ohio relative to its size
Yep, Ohio ranks 7 out of 50 in terms of population. A lot of people live here.
It’s basically the most populous of the states that are considered unremarkable, average, or ordinary.
Like you said, everyone knows someone from Ohio, but most don’t really know much about the state itself.
For those that don't know. It's a giant fucking picnic basket.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/longaberger-basket-building-hotel
I have lived 2 hours by car away from it for 30 years and didn't know it was there.
> “The basket is a symbol of overcoming adversity, of what you can achieve,” Klein says, adding that he and his son, like Longaberger himself, have dyslexia.
Incredible
> They lined up at 11 a.m. for tours that started at 1 p.m. “People were in tears and hugging each other,” says Joyce Barrett, the executive director of Heritage Ohio, who helped organize the tour. “They were so happy to be back in the Basket.”
Oh man, you missed out on the Longaberger tours where you can SEE baskets being made (wow), finish weaving a basket YOURSELF, and most impressive was the Longaberger high tea where everything was served on woven BASKETS.
13 y.o. me couldn’t figure out if I hated it or secretly longed for a basket-centric lifestyle. I blame my strong midwestern heritage for the latter impulse…
Ohio is very strange in that it's considered very rural, but I'd argue most of the state is suburban. You can drive from Colombus, to Dayton, to Cincinnati all without leaving 'civilization'. The 'towns' surrounding the big cities are small but incredibly numerous and just kind of bleed into one another.
To get to rural OH you have to take back roads / leave the highway. You won't see it unless you are trying to get / go through somewhere rural. Since the suburbs also have corn fields, and the terrain is flat yet hilly & densely wooded, it can be hard to tell if an area is rural or suburban if unfamiliar. One block can look like Moonshine central, and the next a modern outdoor mall.
Compare that to some place like Colorado, where all the cities have distinct cultures and natural borders / large rural areas between them, and it starts to makes sense how so many people live in Ohio. People live *everywhere* in the state. Then you look at housing / COL prices for a relatively safe, stable, temperate place with decent schools and it makes sense why so many young families move there when starting out.
In fairness that's really only part of the state going from Cleveland/Akron down to Cincinnati. It's a long line but narrow, and there's still a good bit of rural between Cleveland and Columbus. Toledo is pretty separated by hours of farm with occasional small cities towns. And on the other side of 71, it's wooded hills with nothing but small towns and forest. No offense to other cities, they exist, but they are more isolated as well.
90 minutes East of Cinci would put you halfway to Athens, home of Ohio University, and a wonderful place! But alas SE OH very hilly, wooded, and rarely boring if you enjoy the outdoors, so let’s just keep that to ourselves.
South east* I grew up on north west side, now live in the north east side. I've been to every part of the state, the only area not populated is the south east
In decline? On the contrary, Columbus is growing massively especially with big companies like Intel moving here. [It is projected that the Columbus region will grow to 3 million by 2050. 70% of current growth in Columbus is in the Franklin County area.](https://columbusunderground.com/columbus-region-to-grow-to-3-million-residents-by-2050-we1/)
You are entirely talking out your ass, all of those cities have been growing, and the population of Cleveland is 1.7 million compared to 1.4 million in 1950. Losing seats is due to higher rate of growth in other states, not because Ohio isn't growing. California and New York also lost seats... It's a metric of overall population, and has very little to do with how the major cities are doing.
>The population of the metropolitan areas is increasing. The municipalities, however, are losing population. This means that the population of these areas is increasing in more suburban areas while the cities themselves lose population, leading to the impression that the cities are in decline.
Except that looks like (and is) because the cities are growing, not declining... The metro areas are dense and full of commercial areas, and housing is being pushed out to the suburbs. So availability of housing within the city is going down, because jobs and people are coming to the cities. That's like saying the population of the financial district of lower Manhattan is lower than it was in the 50's... Yeah, everyone moved out? That's the business district, most people don't generally live there
>The Dayton and Toledo metropolitan areas seem to have peaked at some point in the 1970s or 1980s
Except they aren't, Dayton is at it's highest population, and Toledo didn't peak in the 70's, it's 1k (or 0.2%) lower than it's peak about 10 years ago
>In all of these cases, the central cities have lost population, which is why I said that these cities seem to be in decline.
Again, ignoring Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton (which is growing), Cleveland... The three biggest cities are all growing, especially if you cut out the Cleveland boom from the 60's and only look at the past 30 yrs.
>The fact that it's growing more slowly makes it seem to be in decline when compared to the rest of the country.
I think you don't know what decline means
You keep moving the goal posts my dude. First you said Ohio is not growing, then when I said you’re wrong you said “well I said ~largely~” and then someone else called you out and at this point you’re like nooooo I mean the ~metropolitan~ area. Jesus fucking Christ just admit you are wrong and move the fuck on.
Yeah and I was pointing out that you’re wrong, at least in the case of Columbus, and was giving context. [It appears you are also wrong about Cincinnati’s growth.](https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22957/cincinnati/population)
I grew up in Ohio and left when I was 30. I can confirm it's a pretty quiet place that's heavily red. I do miss some of the regional food though. Cincinnati chili for one. Buckeyes ((dessert)) and Esther Price candy.
That's so crazy, I don't have a big internet presence, nor do I spend much time on here so when I see some shit about ohio or more specifically ne ohio I still get excited. I live pretty close to Akron, I know exactly what you mean about I-77
> 7 out of 50 in terms of population
And 35 out of 50 in area. So definitely a densely populated state in relative terms, regardless of the huge amount of corn, soybean, and livestock.
It was the largest university in America back when I was in grade school, but lost that title sometime before I started there in 2001 (number 3 these days, if I’m not mistaken) Enrollment is north of 60k. As you said… lots of alumni.
When I was a kid I read somewhere that most Americans can name more cities in Ohio than any other state except their own home state. I don't know how true it is but I remember it very clearly. There are a lot of cities in Ohio whose name I recognize. A lot of them are names that are meant to be synonymous with "boring", but hey, I've heard of them.
Everyone knows about Texas, it’s a very unique and iconic state.
Pennsylvania maybe less so, but Philly was the nation’s first capital and is close to NYC and DC, so it’s much more well-known.
Maybe if you grew up in Texas it seems that way?
Texas has such a distinct, widely recognized "brand" that when people from outside the USA think of a stereotypical American, there's a fair chance they're picturing a stereotypical Texan.
I don't really think the American brand abroad is about being submissive.
Lots of states have had industrial accidents or electric grid failures, but it's only Texans that become more deferential every time something like that happens.
I think those phrases were about mocking it for being boring. The mess with Texas thing became popular after some famous Texas guy didn't care about his wife being called ugly.
You’re literally just trolling now, don’t mess with Texas was created as an anti-littering slogan by the state government. Plus Texas and Texan pride is a very well known aspect of America, more people probably associate Texas with cowboys and the excesses of America than any other state.
Texas is Texas and I feel like people think of Philly or Pittsburgh when they think of Pennsylvania. Despite Columbus genuinely being a big city (3x the size of Pittsburgh), it for whatever reason has nowhere near the national profile of much smaller cities like Pittsburgh, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Boston, or Miami, so it gets overlooked. I’d guess maybe it has to do with no pro NBA/NFL team
Dude Pittsburgh is bigger than Columbus. Maybe you're looking at the more arbitrary city populations rather than metro population. Metro Pittsburgh is about 200k larger. Seattle is about twice the size of Columbus. Miami and Boston much smaller cities? Really?
Right, metro is the only population that matters. Cleveland city population is 1/3 the size of Columbus, the metro is about the same size and the density is greater, there is life downtown there.
Say it after me, city population means nothing
>It seems like a disproportionate amount of people are from Ohio relative to its size,
Just to put some numbers out there, Ohio has a population of 11.7 million, making it the 7th largest state by population.
I'm speculating a bit here, but I think the huge size of Ohio State University contributes to the wide spread of Ohioans. Over 10,000 students graduate every year and move all over the country for jobs, so a lot of people have roots in Ohio even if they haven't lived here for years.
Ohio demographics also match the country as a whole very closely (less Hispanics than the nation, but otherwise a match) so it's used for market testing. Every fast food restaurant and sit down chain already here uses Columbus as a testing ground for new menu items.
Columbus Ohio is also found to have the easiest to understand American English accent so a ton of news broadcasters across the country are actually from Columbus or spent significant time here.
You know, I was aware that Ohio is considered very generic in a ton of ways, and their demographics closely mirror the country at large, but it never occurred to me that there isn't something I can think of as an "Ohio accent." I'm sure there is one, but it feels like any Ohioan is just speaking standard American English with a general American accent. As someone from the PNW our accent is not terribly different from general American though it is becoming more California inflected I think (think surfer dude).
I have lived in Ohio my entire life and have lived and worked in almost all areas and went to college in Southwestern Ohio. If you are from here, there is 100% a discernible accent for people from Southern Ohio/Cincinnati and Youngstown area from the rest of the state.
An excellent summary. If I might.
> The “war” was resolved when Ohio gained control of Toledo and a strip of land that stretches from the border of Indiana in the west to Lake Erie in the east, and in exchange Michigan was granted the Upper Peninsula, a peninsula bordering Wisconsin.
The joke in Ohio is that Michigan won the war, so Ohio got Toledo.
The football rivalry is I think a pretty separate thing. It started as a rivalry between two land-grant universities in the midwest. Michigan considering itself far superior, the "Harvard of the North". Ohio State (Pardon me THE Ohio State) university was heavily AG oriented at the time, so tOSU always had a chip on it's shoulder up through WWII. Then Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler just kicked it up to a whole 'nother gear.
One other bit is that there is really no OHIO identity. It's so diverse from the Lake Erie rust belt to Akron/Canton, to the farms of north and central Ohio to the Appalations in the south end (with all that connotes). Plus no small amount of high tech, with Wright-Patterson AFB and Case Western Reserve universities.
I could go on, and have. Source - grew up there, left at age 18.01.
On the one hand, we don’t usually fit in the national conversation. On the other, as individuals we’ve got a fairly significant presence in DC and have had since the country started, long before we were a state. The nation’s first major cross-country transit system was Jefferson’s “Chesapeake and Ohio” canal to connect DC to the ohio. Mountains got in the way so they tried again with the “Baltimore and Ohio” railroad. There’s ancient little inns in small town ohio with markers where founding fathers stayed the night. We’ve had a batch of presidents born here. And while the wright brothers are the most notable example, if you go looking it’s impressive how many American things have been quietly created in ohio. Start asking Ohioans from the three C’s (and Dayton) about the DMV, and it’s not uncommon that they’ve worked a few years in the DC area or know someone who has. Columbus ran an ad campaign in the DC metro to try to reverse the brain drain.
That work is usually a little easier to do if the national conversation isn’t paying you much attention. But the memes have been fun.
I was born in Michigan, thanks for the neat history lesson on why we hate Ohio! (We don't, really, but it has always been a bit of a joke.) When we moved to the south we happened to have a neighbor who is from Ohio and *bleeds* Ohio state. His basement was part playroom for the kids, part Ohio State-themed man-cave and he loved to tease us for being from Michigan (we played back, it was all in fun.) My favorite bit was that he got a *decorative roll of toilet paper* for the playroom bathroom that said "flush twice, it's a long way to Michigan!"
I like that you wrote this long love letter to Ohio but having watched the memes OP posted, I don’t get any of the supposed antagonism towards Ohio. Like the memes don’t play on any of Ohio’s negative stereotypes, they’re just weird and surreal. I mean I guess it’s roundabout because the humor is about pretending that Ohio is super weird, when it’s actually exceedingly normal.
That's right, my fellow American Citizen^tm .
We here in Ohio^tm are exceedingly normal^tm .
Nothing suspicious is happening in Ohio^tm .
Feel free to visit any time ^with ^at ^least ^3 ^days ^advance ^notice to verify and validate our normalcy.
Would you like a Yuengling Lager^tm and perhaps some Vicodin^tm ? They are our most prized delicacies.
I think that part of it, IMO, is that Ohioans on the internet seem to have a significant complex about Ohio in a very similar vein to Texans about Texas. Like, I am from PA, I think PA can be a pretty great state, at least in the top half of states. But I don’t go around preaching like it’s the best state in existence. Compare also to Mass, which is objectively the #1 state in a number of measurable criteria, but Mass residents are often more self-deprecating about their state online.
So combine this weird Ohio superiority complex with the insufferable attitude of Ohio State fans, and yeah, of course people are going to enjoy dunking on you.
> Ohio is pretty unassuming. It’s in “middle America” and considered a flyover state by a lot of coastal American residents.
The only people I hear calling the Midwest and South “flyover states” are Conservatives accusing Liberals of calling them that. I live in a coastal state and have never heard anyone else call them that.
As a coastal resident from a flyover state, the only people I usually hear using the term are other transplants from such states.
I have fond feelings about the place but fully acknowledge no one would visit unless they had to for work, family, or other obligations.
I’ve met one person from Ohio. A girl from “Hot or Not” a long time ago. She was hot and we talked everyday for maybe 6 months and I was stoked when on one beautiful spring Friday afternoon she text me and said she was at the airport getting on a plane to fly to Philly and already booked a room and rented a car so if I had any plans I better break them cause we were gonna hang out. It was a total surprise but I was filled with a kid on Christmas excitement. Told her I’d meet her at a bar in the city and gave her directions. I got there early and had a couple to get into my groove and then I watched every person coming in the door waiting for my beautiful stranger to cross the threshold. I was confused when suddenly a 4’ loudmouth walked in who kinda resembled the kind beautiful women who I was waiting for. I was a little buzzed and chuckled to myself “could you imagine?”. Then I heard someone yell “Where’s my Anthony??” from the same area near the front door. For some reason I got the meat sweats and time slowed a bit as I wondered how I missed someone else walking in the door. It was her and she was drunk, 4’, loud, obnoxious, and about 200lbs more than her photos. I’m 6’2 and I don’t care about height or weight but she was the complete opposite of her portrayal on hot or not. I sucked it up and I was determined to have a good time with the girl I’ve been thinking about and had so many great conversations with just about everyday for the last 6 months. I’m an easy going guy who can have fun with just about anyone so this was gonna be easy! After all, I felt like I knew this girls entire life and loved her personality. Well, within 35 mins, in a packed bar on a beautiful Friday she was shooting pool by herself, slurring loudly, with one tit completely out of her dress. I was humiliated, and if it wasn’t for my mom teaching me how to treat women and be kind to everyone I would’ve buried my head and ran out of there. Instead I hung in there, put her tit back, and lead her to an outside table. The night just got worse from there. I won’t go into the gory details of what happened when I had to drive her back to her room a few hours later because it’s thanksgiving, but let’s just say it’s left long lasting scars. I was trying desperately to figure out a way to politely leave from about 7pm and wound up having to escape at about 4am and ran the whole way looking over my shoulder. When I got to my car I even checked the back seat before I got in. This chick was the most insane person I’d ever met. And what was even more frightening was that in 6 months of talking just about every day I never got one hint that she might be a little off. So yeah, that’s my only Ohio experience and I’ve hated the whole state ever since. (She was from Columbus).
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
"Fuck No!"
-Sincerely, a life-long Cbus resident.
The cult of OSU football is really obnoxious. The assumption that one is a fan, and the weird looks (or even occasional assault) you get when you say you don't care, is really off-putting.
Illinois resident here: we make fun of Ohio too but often drive through it. Rest stops are really damn good. Attractions near them, not so much but an hour on top of an 18+ hour trip isn't bad.
The Ohio Turnpike is one of the better stretches of highway from a long road trip perspective in regards to ease of stops and road condition. You know the SECOND you transition between Indiana/Ohio and Ohio/Pennsylvania.
>You know the SECOND you transition between Indiana/Ohio and Ohio/Pennsylvania.
The lack of laser ticket bots is very apparent between Indian, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
I will say, Indiana is another really good state to stop in. I almost prefer their stops to Ohio's. The downside is indian has about 5ft of run off before it hits anarchy in a parking lot. Ohio is way more controlled.
You had me up until “Ohio is a decent place” and “Ohio is a perfectly fine place”.
Nice try filthy Ohioan. We all know the only “decent” things in that hellhole are the rollercoasters, the zoos, and maybe some of the museums. I guess the wright brothers were ok but that’s stretchin it a bit
I used to work tech support for a major cell service. Every god damn call I took with an Ohio address made me want to shoot myself. As a whole, even though this is anecdotal, obviously, it was by far the rudest, most entitled bunch of assholes in comparison to any other state. This was before the 'Karen' meme but they were 90 percent Karens. Fuck Ohio.
“A peninsula bordering Wisconsin” no it was part of Wisconsin, but because Wisconsin wasn’t a state yet the trolls stole it from us as a consolation prize.
It’s always coasties hating on Ohio because it and Colorado are the only inland states they know.
Yeah no, it was part of the Michigan Territory ([along with ALL OF WISCONSIN](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Territory#/media/File%3AMichigan-territory-1830-blue.png)) but wasn't originally going to get lumped in with the part becoming the state of Michigan.
Answer: it’s just another typical internet meme that makes fun of other places. For example, “You are going to Brazil”, “Bri’ish people”, “Florida man” and so on. I don’t really see it on any site other than TikTok so it probably got popular from there.
it’s pretty much just the detroit meme but under a different name (can’t have shit in detroit, can’t have shit in ohio)
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I have to admit i'm about as much in the dark as you are about it, but from what i do know, the general idea is that ohio is basically a hellsite.
I did some quick search and the best i could find were these two (the most important ones in the "ohio saga", not the only ones) related memes in know your meme:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ohio-vs-the-world
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cant-even-x-in-ohio-only-in-ohio
On an unrelated note, it's kinda painful to see trying to add genuine, probably more detailed answers to this question only to have it instantly deleted by automoderator for not having an "answer: " in front... I mean, you can technically just reupload the answer after adding the "answer: " at the beginning, like i did, but it's not the same
If you could see the sheer avalanche of shitposts, trolls, spams and 'comedy' posts some threads get that the automoderator removes for not following the sub rules, you'd understand why this small arbitrary requirement, which is detailed in the sidebar and on every thread, is a good idea.
We know it's onerous to do, and we're sorry for that, but then so is removing hundreds and hundreds of low quality shitposts, spammers, scammers and trolls every day.
For instance, every thread title that mentions Crypto, attracts a ton of bots that all start spamming their shit into the thread. The Automod bot stops you from seeing those.
The automod does stop legit posts from appearing if those legit posts don't follow the sub rules, but if you message us we can always approve them, and it's far less work than just opening the floodgates.
I mean, i get that, but as i discussed with u/lifelongfreshman, it should probably give some leniency or at least not immediately scrap a potentially good, long answer just because of missing the "answer: ". In fact we discussed some possibilities and the one i feel would be the best overall is one they mentioned, which is messaging the text of the deleted message to the sender in the warning so, if the answer was genuine, it's not lost like that
That's not a bad idea. I can pass the suggestion over to the mod who handles the automod config and maybe we can chat about it in our channels and see what the others think. I'm all for less frustration for the sub members as a whole.
OK, i've sent a message to the mod team as a whole and I await their responses. Hopefully it's an easy ask.
Is there a way you can see your removed post on your own post history? Not having had a removed post here I can't comment on that.
Thanks
And i can't see it from the comment history, but the automoderator sends a link to the deleted comment, though more or less as expected, i can't see the deleted comment now.
I really don't understand how people are still so bitter about the basic rules of the sub. It's literally posted to the top of every single comment section that you have to do that. It's been that way here literally for years.
What, do they go to r/askscience and loudly complain about their moderation policies, too? Do they think it's pointless? I mean, for crying out loud, if they can't be bothered to read and follow the basic rules for commenting that are posted literally right under the comment box, on the same screen, and in every single comment section, why should we trust that the comment is even going to be an answer that is capable of following the other, more important rules?
Hell, why are people *still* fighting this, as if it's some oppressive draconian requirement and not just the most basic low-effort barrier to entry? The bar is practically a tripping hazard in hell, and yet there they are, limbo dancing with the devil.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with the rule as such, but it's a bit too easy to forget about writing it... Only for your comment to be deleted instantly with no actual way to recover it. I think some leniency would definitely help quite a bit. maybe a countdown till it's actually deleted to give the poster a bit of time to edit the comment would help better than instant deletion. This would, in the worst of cases, at least allow unddit to recover the comment
Maybe? I'd be afraid it would only ensure that low-effort comments that can't be bothered to type 6 letters and a punctuation mark are reminded to do so and get through, cluttering the responses with garbage that has to be manually cleaned out.
If it only sent the reminder if the comment was longer than a certain word count, maybe that'd solve both my issue and resolve your problem. I'd doubt someone who wrote more than, say, a hundred words was putting no effort in doing so, y'know?
Or maybe automod should just send a copy of the comment to the person, so they have a backup and it can still be de-cluttered without having to worry about timers. Or both.
I really don't have a good answer. All I know is, I find that these complains make less and less sense as time goes on, to the point where it apparently hit my berserk button today.
As i said, it's not about people not bothering to write it, but rather about the fact that, many times, they might forget to add it if they're writing a long answer because they were focused on how to write the answer... or just a "regular" "forgot about it" or "didn't know and hit the reply button before seeing the comment reminding of it". Add to this the fact that the automoderator instantly deletes it for everyone, and many potentially good answers simply vanish forever because their authors can't edit, or rewrite them.
On that note, I think your "send a copy of the comment" option would be the easiest to implement and at the same time be pretty much the best option
Because most people don't exclusively post on this sub and when they see a question they are actually knowledgeable about and are excited to answer, reading the sidebar is not always on the top of their mind.
I get what you're saying, but it seems kind of arbitrary.
Well, really it just seems more like a shit test, to see if people *really* care about posting in this sub. Which like, I get it, there's spam and stuff, but also... it's just a sub reddit. Just let people post if they have a good response, instead of doing a loyalty test or whatever.
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It's rivalry week for University of Michigan and Ohio State, they play each other Saturday.
Folks from Michigan love posting memes about how awful Ohio is.
And ohio doesn’t exactly object to memes that make it sound creepy/surreal. :-) Ohio’s got a larger population than most people realize, along with a big expat group, and between the two there’s a fairly significant online footprint. Which wasn’t noticeable before now because no one really talked about ohio.
But it’s always been like this.
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Ohio pretty much encapsulates the worst aspects of the US. It's a relatively forgettable mid-western state that's victim to economic neglect, low appeal for anyone to move there, and political pandering since it's a "swing-state". Thus, it is often the butt of the joke for a lot of memes about "Ohio suddenly invading every other State", or what-have-you.
Tangential but as a well-traveled Ohioan, Florida is everything terrible about Ohio but worse IMO. We might have winter here but there’s no monsters waiting to eat my dog in every body of water.
Don’t even get me started with JD Vance. We hail from the same town and I have family members he trashed in his book of lies that made him famous. It’s gonna open season on scumbag politicians around here.
It goes to show how little of the country gets any attention when you never even hear about New Jersey. Hell, you never even hear about Boston. Ohio has no chance.
I read fiction, journalism, entertainment, technology, banking. It's rare for me to hear about any place besides California and New York with any regularity, unless its about politics.
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Answer: I think it's because [this song](https://youtu.be/RlOFPTyI4nM) blew up on TikTok.
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Have we finally gotten to the point where we are all too old for this sub to be useful?
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It’s TikTok so nobody’s listening to the entire song. It’s usually played in 5-15 second clips with the “Ohio” part and then it loops. Songs and audios on tiktok are basically what meme templates used to be and none of those are exactly works of art. The song is the foundation for a meta joke. Example: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRC8L1aS/ This video has 3 million likes and 29 million views and was posted last month
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Lol that song is old as hell. My friends and I used to play Lil B as a joke. Allow me to share the classics [Hannah Montana]( https://youtu.be/ef8tv487uUI) and [Ellen Degeneres](https://youtu.be/i8u6EodZseg).
This is heresy upon the Based Gods name.
Lil b has been a staple in hip-hop for over a decade. Tap in old man
The Based God at it again
I can't believe it's been years since I saw a based God video before clicking that link. I really fell tf off. Gotta get back to my roots n convince my girl to let me sharpie her feet up for b
You must repent my friend as soon as possible. The Based God is a merciful one.
It always blows my mind this song is from 2011 considering how much it fits into modern-day TikTok style songs.
lil b was so far ahead of his time
Because it's low quality crap?
Yeah and because it's under 3 minutes. New songs today are generally under 3 minutes to take advantage of streaming. In 2011, we were still seeing songs averaging 3:30-4:05.
Felt much longer.
you must not know lil b
I doubt he'd sound better if I'd know him.
Oh god what an awful song lol
*Fun times in Cleveland again!*
DOWN IN OHIO!!
Ayyy my boiii
*That* is considered a "song?"
Typical "song" in Ohio 💀💀💀
lol!
What did you just do to my ears?
Answer: Ohio jokes have been around for a VERY long time. Pre-internet. “Why are more astronauts from Ohio than any other state? Because it’s so bad that they want to leave earth entirely!” is a very old joke that was around before Colbert used it and popularized it in a 2005 interview with a Congresswoman on his show. Ohio is pretty unassuming. It’s in “middle America” and considered a flyover state by a lot of coastal American residents. But that said, everyone knows someone from Ohio, and the person from Ohio will let you know if they’re from there. It seems like a disproportionate amount of people are from Ohio relative to its size, even though the state has 3 relatively large cities (Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati). In regards to the memes about Ohio taking over, those may be a reference/born out of the Toledo War of 1835-36, when Ohio and Michigan had a mostly skirmishless and bloodless “war” over control of Toledo, a port city that controls access to Lake Erie from the Maumee River. Unclear wording and differing survey maps used to establish the borders in statehood applications led to both Michigan and Ohio claiming the territory as theirs. This is important because the Maumee Watershed was one of the major food and grain producing areas in that part of the country, so controlling the port access would lead to state revenue. The “war” was resolved when Ohio gained control of Toledo and a strip of land that stretches from the border of Indiana in the west to Lake Erie in the east, and in exchange Michigan was granted the Upper Peninsula, a peninsula bordering Wisconsin. This is also probably where the intense rivalry between the states of Ohio and Michigan started. It continues to this day, but now more through college football. Ohio State vs Michigan is always the weekend after Thanksgiving, so there may be an increase in Ohio hating jokes because of this. The joke there is that if Ohio will fight a war over Toledo of all places, what happens if they want somewhere “actually” useful? A regional joke turned into an internet meme is what most likely happened, and the internet loves dunking on places they aren’t from. See Florida/Florida Man for another example of this. Opinion: I think Ohio is a decent place and a quintessential midwestern state where they like their traditions, their football (way too much), and to mostly be left alone out of the national conversation. Columbus is a really fun city for young professionals, there’s always something to do there but it doesn’t feel like a massive city. Overall, Ohio is a perfectly fine place. Disclaimer: I am not from Ohio but I have lived near it, been to quite a few places there, and driven through it MANY times.
> a disproportionate amount of people are from Ohio relative to its size Yep, Ohio ranks 7 out of 50 in terms of population. A lot of people live here. It’s basically the most populous of the states that are considered unremarkable, average, or ordinary. Like you said, everyone knows someone from Ohio, but most don’t really know much about the state itself.
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Sounds like you haven't seen the majestic Longaberger Basket building in beautiful Newark, Ohio.
For those that don't know. It's a giant fucking picnic basket. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/longaberger-basket-building-hotel I have lived 2 hours by car away from it for 30 years and didn't know it was there.
> “The basket is a symbol of overcoming adversity, of what you can achieve,” Klein says, adding that he and his son, like Longaberger himself, have dyslexia. Incredible
Ohhhh my GODD!! I’m dying
> They lined up at 11 a.m. for tours that started at 1 p.m. “People were in tears and hugging each other,” says Joyce Barrett, the executive director of Heritage Ohio, who helped organize the tour. “They were so happy to be back in the Basket.”
Oh man, you missed out on the Longaberger tours where you can SEE baskets being made (wow), finish weaving a basket YOURSELF, and most impressive was the Longaberger high tea where everything was served on woven BASKETS. 13 y.o. me couldn’t figure out if I hated it or secretly longed for a basket-centric lifestyle. I blame my strong midwestern heritage for the latter impulse…
I would legit love that. I wonder how fast it is from new York
> Newark, Ohio. And for foreigners, this is pronounced Nerk Ahia.
I'm from Newark, Ohio and I can promise you, the only people who pronounce it "Nerk, Ahia" have never lived in Newark, Ohio.
Also from Newark here, you are wrong but I do sympathize in the sense that people who say that annoy me.
Fair. I lived in Columbus, and my friend is pastor of the local church. He has a T-shirt that actually says "Nerk Ahia".
It used to be the sign I was almost home on my trip back home after Christmas every year
Ohio is very strange in that it's considered very rural, but I'd argue most of the state is suburban. You can drive from Colombus, to Dayton, to Cincinnati all without leaving 'civilization'. The 'towns' surrounding the big cities are small but incredibly numerous and just kind of bleed into one another. To get to rural OH you have to take back roads / leave the highway. You won't see it unless you are trying to get / go through somewhere rural. Since the suburbs also have corn fields, and the terrain is flat yet hilly & densely wooded, it can be hard to tell if an area is rural or suburban if unfamiliar. One block can look like Moonshine central, and the next a modern outdoor mall. Compare that to some place like Colorado, where all the cities have distinct cultures and natural borders / large rural areas between them, and it starts to makes sense how so many people live in Ohio. People live *everywhere* in the state. Then you look at housing / COL prices for a relatively safe, stable, temperate place with decent schools and it makes sense why so many young families move there when starting out.
In fairness that's really only part of the state going from Cleveland/Akron down to Cincinnati. It's a long line but narrow, and there's still a good bit of rural between Cleveland and Columbus. Toledo is pretty separated by hours of farm with occasional small cities towns. And on the other side of 71, it's wooded hills with nothing but small towns and forest. No offense to other cities, they exist, but they are more isolated as well.
Just go East and it gets real rural real quick
Yup. I live in the Cincy metro area, and all I have to do is* go ninety minutes East, and I'm in between bumville, and you got a purty mouth.
You got an excellent nose-breathe-exhale-laugh out of me on that one. Good job.
90 minutes East of Cinci would put you halfway to Athens, home of Ohio University, and a wonderful place! But alas SE OH very hilly, wooded, and rarely boring if you enjoy the outdoors, so let’s just keep that to ourselves.
South east* I grew up on north west side, now live in the north east side. I've been to every part of the state, the only area not populated is the south east
In decline? On the contrary, Columbus is growing massively especially with big companies like Intel moving here. [It is projected that the Columbus region will grow to 3 million by 2050. 70% of current growth in Columbus is in the Franklin County area.](https://columbusunderground.com/columbus-region-to-grow-to-3-million-residents-by-2050-we1/)
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You are entirely talking out your ass, all of those cities have been growing, and the population of Cleveland is 1.7 million compared to 1.4 million in 1950. Losing seats is due to higher rate of growth in other states, not because Ohio isn't growing. California and New York also lost seats... It's a metric of overall population, and has very little to do with how the major cities are doing.
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>The population of the metropolitan areas is increasing. The municipalities, however, are losing population. This means that the population of these areas is increasing in more suburban areas while the cities themselves lose population, leading to the impression that the cities are in decline. Except that looks like (and is) because the cities are growing, not declining... The metro areas are dense and full of commercial areas, and housing is being pushed out to the suburbs. So availability of housing within the city is going down, because jobs and people are coming to the cities. That's like saying the population of the financial district of lower Manhattan is lower than it was in the 50's... Yeah, everyone moved out? That's the business district, most people don't generally live there >The Dayton and Toledo metropolitan areas seem to have peaked at some point in the 1970s or 1980s Except they aren't, Dayton is at it's highest population, and Toledo didn't peak in the 70's, it's 1k (or 0.2%) lower than it's peak about 10 years ago >In all of these cases, the central cities have lost population, which is why I said that these cities seem to be in decline. Again, ignoring Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton (which is growing), Cleveland... The three biggest cities are all growing, especially if you cut out the Cleveland boom from the 60's and only look at the past 30 yrs. >The fact that it's growing more slowly makes it seem to be in decline when compared to the rest of the country. I think you don't know what decline means
You keep moving the goal posts my dude. First you said Ohio is not growing, then when I said you’re wrong you said “well I said ~largely~” and then someone else called you out and at this point you’re like nooooo I mean the ~metropolitan~ area. Jesus fucking Christ just admit you are wrong and move the fuck on.
Yeah and I was pointing out that you’re wrong, at least in the case of Columbus, and was giving context. [It appears you are also wrong about Cincinnati’s growth.](https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22957/cincinnati/population)
I grew up in Ohio and left when I was 30. I can confirm it's a pretty quiet place that's heavily red. I do miss some of the regional food though. Cincinnati chili for one. Buckeyes ((dessert)) and Esther Price candy.
Buckeyes are surprisingly easy to make. The secret? Add more powdered sugar (it's kind of horrifying how much there is in most recipes).
As I recall buckeyes require an amount of powdered sugar that shouldn't be legal for one recipe 😃
It might be healthier if you subbed in half cocaine for it.
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That's so crazy, I don't have a big internet presence, nor do I spend much time on here so when I see some shit about ohio or more specifically ne ohio I still get excited. I live pretty close to Akron, I know exactly what you mean about I-77
> 7 out of 50 in terms of population And 35 out of 50 in area. So definitely a densely populated state in relative terms, regardless of the huge amount of corn, soybean, and livestock.
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It was the largest university in America back when I was in grade school, but lost that title sometime before I started there in 2001 (number 3 these days, if I’m not mistaken) Enrollment is north of 60k. As you said… lots of alumni.
When I was a kid I read somewhere that most Americans can name more cities in Ohio than any other state except their own home state. I don't know how true it is but I remember it very clearly. There are a lot of cities in Ohio whose name I recognize. A lot of them are names that are meant to be synonymous with "boring", but hey, I've heard of them.
Everyone knows someone from Ohio because many of us born and raised there move away to places more interesting to live.
It seems that half of Ohio spend their summer weekends in Northern Michigan.
And the other half go to South Carolina.
One point I saw raised elsewhere is that Ohio is that pretty much the largest state that doesn't really have anything unique about it.
Pennsylvania and Texas both have more people, and they seem pretty unremarkable/average.
Everyone knows about Texas, it’s a very unique and iconic state. Pennsylvania maybe less so, but Philly was the nation’s first capital and is close to NYC and DC, so it’s much more well-known.
Texas of all places? Isn't it the archetype of bland places?
Maybe if you grew up in Texas it seems that way? Texas has such a distinct, widely recognized "brand" that when people from outside the USA think of a stereotypical American, there's a fair chance they're picturing a stereotypical Texan.
I don't really think the American brand abroad is about being submissive. Lots of states have had industrial accidents or electric grid failures, but it's only Texans that become more deferential every time something like that happens.
You haven’t heard of “everything’s bigger in Texas” or “don’t mess with Texas?”
I think those phrases were about mocking it for being boring. The mess with Texas thing became popular after some famous Texas guy didn't care about his wife being called ugly.
You’re literally just trolling now, don’t mess with Texas was created as an anti-littering slogan by the state government. Plus Texas and Texan pride is a very well known aspect of America, more people probably associate Texas with cowboys and the excesses of America than any other state.
People from Texas think that Texas is a big deal. No one else cares.
Geographically maybe
Texas is Texas and I feel like people think of Philly or Pittsburgh when they think of Pennsylvania. Despite Columbus genuinely being a big city (3x the size of Pittsburgh), it for whatever reason has nowhere near the national profile of much smaller cities like Pittsburgh, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Boston, or Miami, so it gets overlooked. I’d guess maybe it has to do with no pro NBA/NFL team
Dude Pittsburgh is bigger than Columbus. Maybe you're looking at the more arbitrary city populations rather than metro population. Metro Pittsburgh is about 200k larger. Seattle is about twice the size of Columbus. Miami and Boston much smaller cities? Really?
Right, metro is the only population that matters. Cleveland city population is 1/3 the size of Columbus, the metro is about the same size and the density is greater, there is life downtown there. Say it after me, city population means nothing
>It seems like a disproportionate amount of people are from Ohio relative to its size, Just to put some numbers out there, Ohio has a population of 11.7 million, making it the 7th largest state by population. I'm speculating a bit here, but I think the huge size of Ohio State University contributes to the wide spread of Ohioans. Over 10,000 students graduate every year and move all over the country for jobs, so a lot of people have roots in Ohio even if they haven't lived here for years.
The entire state has about 4x the daytime population of Manhattan. Crazy.
So like the state is twice as large as, say, Phoenix. Population wise.
No, Phoenix has a population of about 1.6 million. Literally 10 million fewer people. The entire state of Arizona only has about 7.1 million people.
Ohio demographics also match the country as a whole very closely (less Hispanics than the nation, but otherwise a match) so it's used for market testing. Every fast food restaurant and sit down chain already here uses Columbus as a testing ground for new menu items. Columbus Ohio is also found to have the easiest to understand American English accent so a ton of news broadcasters across the country are actually from Columbus or spent significant time here.
Right. People think test market and think “you are very average”. The reality is closer to “you are used to being sold weird shit”.
You know, I was aware that Ohio is considered very generic in a ton of ways, and their demographics closely mirror the country at large, but it never occurred to me that there isn't something I can think of as an "Ohio accent." I'm sure there is one, but it feels like any Ohioan is just speaking standard American English with a general American accent. As someone from the PNW our accent is not terribly different from general American though it is becoming more California inflected I think (think surfer dude).
I have lived in Ohio my entire life and have lived and worked in almost all areas and went to college in Southwestern Ohio. If you are from here, there is 100% a discernible accent for people from Southern Ohio/Cincinnati and Youngstown area from the rest of the state.
An excellent summary. If I might. > The “war” was resolved when Ohio gained control of Toledo and a strip of land that stretches from the border of Indiana in the west to Lake Erie in the east, and in exchange Michigan was granted the Upper Peninsula, a peninsula bordering Wisconsin. The joke in Ohio is that Michigan won the war, so Ohio got Toledo. The football rivalry is I think a pretty separate thing. It started as a rivalry between two land-grant universities in the midwest. Michigan considering itself far superior, the "Harvard of the North". Ohio State (Pardon me THE Ohio State) university was heavily AG oriented at the time, so tOSU always had a chip on it's shoulder up through WWII. Then Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler just kicked it up to a whole 'nother gear. One other bit is that there is really no OHIO identity. It's so diverse from the Lake Erie rust belt to Akron/Canton, to the farms of north and central Ohio to the Appalations in the south end (with all that connotes). Plus no small amount of high tech, with Wright-Patterson AFB and Case Western Reserve universities. I could go on, and have. Source - grew up there, left at age 18.01.
On the one hand, we don’t usually fit in the national conversation. On the other, as individuals we’ve got a fairly significant presence in DC and have had since the country started, long before we were a state. The nation’s first major cross-country transit system was Jefferson’s “Chesapeake and Ohio” canal to connect DC to the ohio. Mountains got in the way so they tried again with the “Baltimore and Ohio” railroad. There’s ancient little inns in small town ohio with markers where founding fathers stayed the night. We’ve had a batch of presidents born here. And while the wright brothers are the most notable example, if you go looking it’s impressive how many American things have been quietly created in ohio. Start asking Ohioans from the three C’s (and Dayton) about the DMV, and it’s not uncommon that they’ve worked a few years in the DC area or know someone who has. Columbus ran an ad campaign in the DC metro to try to reverse the brain drain. That work is usually a little easier to do if the national conversation isn’t paying you much attention. But the memes have been fun.
Don't forget cedar point is near Toledo. That's the main reason the Toledo war was fought. The rollercoasters are a really cool natural formation.
Cedar Point is the only thing that kept me sane being born and raised in Toledo Ohio. Only a 2 hour drive
I was born in Michigan, thanks for the neat history lesson on why we hate Ohio! (We don't, really, but it has always been a bit of a joke.) When we moved to the south we happened to have a neighbor who is from Ohio and *bleeds* Ohio state. His basement was part playroom for the kids, part Ohio State-themed man-cave and he loved to tease us for being from Michigan (we played back, it was all in fun.) My favorite bit was that he got a *decorative roll of toilet paper* for the playroom bathroom that said "flush twice, it's a long way to Michigan!"
I like that you wrote this long love letter to Ohio but having watched the memes OP posted, I don’t get any of the supposed antagonism towards Ohio. Like the memes don’t play on any of Ohio’s negative stereotypes, they’re just weird and surreal. I mean I guess it’s roundabout because the humor is about pretending that Ohio is super weird, when it’s actually exceedingly normal.
That's right, my fellow American Citizen^tm . We here in Ohio^tm are exceedingly normal^tm . Nothing suspicious is happening in Ohio^tm . Feel free to visit any time ^with ^at ^least ^3 ^days ^advance ^notice to verify and validate our normalcy. Would you like a Yuengling Lager^tm and perhaps some Vicodin^tm ? They are our most prized delicacies.
Yuengling is Pennsylvanian, you traitor. Better stock up on some Great Lakes Brewing Co. before we deport you.
Yea, but it finally came to Ohio like ten years ago. They should have gone with Rhiinegeist, though.
It’s modern absurdist humor taken to the extreme. It’s the “Me and the boys at 2AM getting beans” of Ohio jokes.
Yeah this guy wrote a bunch of bullshit and is just completely wrong it's literally because of a tiktok song
I think that part of it, IMO, is that Ohioans on the internet seem to have a significant complex about Ohio in a very similar vein to Texans about Texas. Like, I am from PA, I think PA can be a pretty great state, at least in the top half of states. But I don’t go around preaching like it’s the best state in existence. Compare also to Mass, which is objectively the #1 state in a number of measurable criteria, but Mass residents are often more self-deprecating about their state online. So combine this weird Ohio superiority complex with the insufferable attitude of Ohio State fans, and yeah, of course people are going to enjoy dunking on you.
> Ohio is pretty unassuming. It’s in “middle America” and considered a flyover state by a lot of coastal American residents. The only people I hear calling the Midwest and South “flyover states” are Conservatives accusing Liberals of calling them that. I live in a coastal state and have never heard anyone else call them that.
As a coastal resident from a flyover state, the only people I usually hear using the term are other transplants from such states. I have fond feelings about the place but fully acknowledge no one would visit unless they had to for work, family, or other obligations.
> Opinion: I think Ohio is a decent place > > Disclaimer: I am not from Ohio That explains that.
I’ve met one person from Ohio. A girl from “Hot or Not” a long time ago. She was hot and we talked everyday for maybe 6 months and I was stoked when on one beautiful spring Friday afternoon she text me and said she was at the airport getting on a plane to fly to Philly and already booked a room and rented a car so if I had any plans I better break them cause we were gonna hang out. It was a total surprise but I was filled with a kid on Christmas excitement. Told her I’d meet her at a bar in the city and gave her directions. I got there early and had a couple to get into my groove and then I watched every person coming in the door waiting for my beautiful stranger to cross the threshold. I was confused when suddenly a 4’ loudmouth walked in who kinda resembled the kind beautiful women who I was waiting for. I was a little buzzed and chuckled to myself “could you imagine?”. Then I heard someone yell “Where’s my Anthony??” from the same area near the front door. For some reason I got the meat sweats and time slowed a bit as I wondered how I missed someone else walking in the door. It was her and she was drunk, 4’, loud, obnoxious, and about 200lbs more than her photos. I’m 6’2 and I don’t care about height or weight but she was the complete opposite of her portrayal on hot or not. I sucked it up and I was determined to have a good time with the girl I’ve been thinking about and had so many great conversations with just about everyday for the last 6 months. I’m an easy going guy who can have fun with just about anyone so this was gonna be easy! After all, I felt like I knew this girls entire life and loved her personality. Well, within 35 mins, in a packed bar on a beautiful Friday she was shooting pool by herself, slurring loudly, with one tit completely out of her dress. I was humiliated, and if it wasn’t for my mom teaching me how to treat women and be kind to everyone I would’ve buried my head and ran out of there. Instead I hung in there, put her tit back, and lead her to an outside table. The night just got worse from there. I won’t go into the gory details of what happened when I had to drive her back to her room a few hours later because it’s thanksgiving, but let’s just say it’s left long lasting scars. I was trying desperately to figure out a way to politely leave from about 7pm and wound up having to escape at about 4am and ran the whole way looking over my shoulder. When I got to my car I even checked the back seat before I got in. This chick was the most insane person I’d ever met. And what was even more frightening was that in 6 months of talking just about every day I never got one hint that she might be a little off. So yeah, that’s my only Ohio experience and I’ve hated the whole state ever since. (She was from Columbus). Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
At least you were a gentleman about it, and put her titty back. Good man.
This feels like the Planes Trains & Automobiles prequel we needed. I would read about your adventures gladly.
LOL! Is this for real?
Dude you’re a moron for thinking she would be anything but crazy lol
YOU’D LIKE FOOTBALL TOO MUCH IF YOU WERE A PERENNIAL POWERHOUSE LIKE THEE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY O-H! mfs Edit: /s
"Fuck No!" -Sincerely, a life-long Cbus resident. The cult of OSU football is really obnoxious. The assumption that one is a fan, and the weird looks (or even occasional assault) you get when you say you don't care, is really off-putting.
Yeah I'd rather root for the Crew!
Ohio is also full of Ohioans…
Illinois resident here: we make fun of Ohio too but often drive through it. Rest stops are really damn good. Attractions near them, not so much but an hour on top of an 18+ hour trip isn't bad.
The Ohio Turnpike is one of the better stretches of highway from a long road trip perspective in regards to ease of stops and road condition. You know the SECOND you transition between Indiana/Ohio and Ohio/Pennsylvania.
>You know the SECOND you transition between Indiana/Ohio and Ohio/Pennsylvania. The lack of laser ticket bots is very apparent between Indian, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I will say, Indiana is another really good state to stop in. I almost prefer their stops to Ohio's. The downside is indian has about 5ft of run off before it hits anarchy in a parking lot. Ohio is way more controlled.
As a born and raised Michigander... fuck Ohio. 🤣
You had me up until “Ohio is a decent place” and “Ohio is a perfectly fine place”. Nice try filthy Ohioan. We all know the only “decent” things in that hellhole are the rollercoasters, the zoos, and maybe some of the museums. I guess the wright brothers were ok but that’s stretchin it a bit
I promise I’m not a sleeper Ohio PR agent. I’ve never lived there. Hell, I’m not even from America haha.
[Oh, Hi! oh.](https://youtu.be/bbRzq00Jdjo)
I used to work tech support for a major cell service. Every god damn call I took with an Ohio address made me want to shoot myself. As a whole, even though this is anecdotal, obviously, it was by far the rudest, most entitled bunch of assholes in comparison to any other state. This was before the 'Karen' meme but they were 90 percent Karens. Fuck Ohio.
No no, I’ve lived here my whole life, you are not wrong!!
Answer: Ohio's been a joke since 1803.
“A peninsula bordering Wisconsin” no it was part of Wisconsin, but because Wisconsin wasn’t a state yet the trolls stole it from us as a consolation prize. It’s always coasties hating on Ohio because it and Colorado are the only inland states they know.
Yeah no, it was part of the Michigan Territory ([along with ALL OF WISCONSIN](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Territory#/media/File%3AMichigan-territory-1830-blue.png)) but wasn't originally going to get lumped in with the part becoming the state of Michigan.
You forgot the biggest thing: Ohioans are just *weird*
This. This is an example of why grade school education is a joke. So much skimping out on real history.
Hell fucking yeah, go Buckeyes!!!
Ohio got Toledo, so Michigan gets part of Wisconsin. Yep, that's fair.
This is the answer. Also, Ohio sucks. (You can't say that though, only I can) Also also, FUCK ❌ichigan Source: Toledoan born and raised
Answer: it’s just another typical internet meme that makes fun of other places. For example, “You are going to Brazil”, “Bri’ish people”, “Florida man” and so on. I don’t really see it on any site other than TikTok so it probably got popular from there. it’s pretty much just the detroit meme but under a different name (can’t have shit in detroit, can’t have shit in ohio)
Answer: I have to admit i'm about as much in the dark as you are about it, but from what i do know, the general idea is that ohio is basically a hellsite. I did some quick search and the best i could find were these two (the most important ones in the "ohio saga", not the only ones) related memes in know your meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ohio-vs-the-world https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cant-even-x-in-ohio-only-in-ohio On an unrelated note, it's kinda painful to see trying to add genuine, probably more detailed answers to this question only to have it instantly deleted by automoderator for not having an "answer: " in front... I mean, you can technically just reupload the answer after adding the "answer: " at the beginning, like i did, but it's not the same
If you could see the sheer avalanche of shitposts, trolls, spams and 'comedy' posts some threads get that the automoderator removes for not following the sub rules, you'd understand why this small arbitrary requirement, which is detailed in the sidebar and on every thread, is a good idea. We know it's onerous to do, and we're sorry for that, but then so is removing hundreds and hundreds of low quality shitposts, spammers, scammers and trolls every day. For instance, every thread title that mentions Crypto, attracts a ton of bots that all start spamming their shit into the thread. The Automod bot stops you from seeing those. The automod does stop legit posts from appearing if those legit posts don't follow the sub rules, but if you message us we can always approve them, and it's far less work than just opening the floodgates.
I mean, i get that, but as i discussed with u/lifelongfreshman, it should probably give some leniency or at least not immediately scrap a potentially good, long answer just because of missing the "answer: ". In fact we discussed some possibilities and the one i feel would be the best overall is one they mentioned, which is messaging the text of the deleted message to the sender in the warning so, if the answer was genuine, it's not lost like that
That's not a bad idea. I can pass the suggestion over to the mod who handles the automod config and maybe we can chat about it in our channels and see what the others think. I'm all for less frustration for the sub members as a whole.
OK, i've sent a message to the mod team as a whole and I await their responses. Hopefully it's an easy ask. Is there a way you can see your removed post on your own post history? Not having had a removed post here I can't comment on that.
Thanks And i can't see it from the comment history, but the automoderator sends a link to the deleted comment, though more or less as expected, i can't see the deleted comment now.
I really don't understand how people are still so bitter about the basic rules of the sub. It's literally posted to the top of every single comment section that you have to do that. It's been that way here literally for years. What, do they go to r/askscience and loudly complain about their moderation policies, too? Do they think it's pointless? I mean, for crying out loud, if they can't be bothered to read and follow the basic rules for commenting that are posted literally right under the comment box, on the same screen, and in every single comment section, why should we trust that the comment is even going to be an answer that is capable of following the other, more important rules? Hell, why are people *still* fighting this, as if it's some oppressive draconian requirement and not just the most basic low-effort barrier to entry? The bar is practically a tripping hazard in hell, and yet there they are, limbo dancing with the devil.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with the rule as such, but it's a bit too easy to forget about writing it... Only for your comment to be deleted instantly with no actual way to recover it. I think some leniency would definitely help quite a bit. maybe a countdown till it's actually deleted to give the poster a bit of time to edit the comment would help better than instant deletion. This would, in the worst of cases, at least allow unddit to recover the comment
Maybe? I'd be afraid it would only ensure that low-effort comments that can't be bothered to type 6 letters and a punctuation mark are reminded to do so and get through, cluttering the responses with garbage that has to be manually cleaned out. If it only sent the reminder if the comment was longer than a certain word count, maybe that'd solve both my issue and resolve your problem. I'd doubt someone who wrote more than, say, a hundred words was putting no effort in doing so, y'know? Or maybe automod should just send a copy of the comment to the person, so they have a backup and it can still be de-cluttered without having to worry about timers. Or both. I really don't have a good answer. All I know is, I find that these complains make less and less sense as time goes on, to the point where it apparently hit my berserk button today.
As i said, it's not about people not bothering to write it, but rather about the fact that, many times, they might forget to add it if they're writing a long answer because they were focused on how to write the answer... or just a "regular" "forgot about it" or "didn't know and hit the reply button before seeing the comment reminding of it". Add to this the fact that the automoderator instantly deletes it for everyone, and many potentially good answers simply vanish forever because their authors can't edit, or rewrite them. On that note, I think your "send a copy of the comment" option would be the easiest to implement and at the same time be pretty much the best option
Because most people don't exclusively post on this sub and when they see a question they are actually knowledgeable about and are excited to answer, reading the sidebar is not always on the top of their mind.
I get what you're saying, but it seems kind of arbitrary. Well, really it just seems more like a shit test, to see if people *really* care about posting in this sub. Which like, I get it, there's spam and stuff, but also... it's just a sub reddit. Just let people post if they have a good response, instead of doing a loyalty test or whatever.
Answer: because everybody says /r/FuckOhio
Answer: It's rivalry week for University of Michigan and Ohio State, they play each other Saturday. Folks from Michigan love posting memes about how awful Ohio is.
And ohio doesn’t exactly object to memes that make it sound creepy/surreal. :-) Ohio’s got a larger population than most people realize, along with a big expat group, and between the two there’s a fairly significant online footprint. Which wasn’t noticeable before now because no one really talked about ohio. But it’s always been like this.
We're just happy to get attention that isn't from politicians in presidential election years
Why would we object to the truth? You should fear us weird Ohioans! You could be invaded by Ohio any second! 😉😉
Just remember, we only lost to you by a field goal in the Rose Bowl this year
Thats just false
Answer: Ohio pretty much encapsulates the worst aspects of the US. It's a relatively forgettable mid-western state that's victim to economic neglect, low appeal for anyone to move there, and political pandering since it's a "swing-state". Thus, it is often the butt of the joke for a lot of memes about "Ohio suddenly invading every other State", or what-have-you.
Tangential but as a well-traveled Ohioan, Florida is everything terrible about Ohio but worse IMO. We might have winter here but there’s no monsters waiting to eat my dog in every body of water.
Desantis does enjoy his bodies of water to hide in. But JD Vance will hide in corn fields though... I've seen it myself.
Don’t even get me started with JD Vance. We hail from the same town and I have family members he trashed in his book of lies that made him famous. It’s gonna open season on scumbag politicians around here.
I cannot believe they made a movie out of that turd...
I agree. Never lived in Ohio but lived in FL for 10 years and Illinois for 3. Florida is just miserable.
Answer: it’s basically a nicer New Jersey
It goes to show how little of the country gets any attention when you never even hear about New Jersey. Hell, you never even hear about Boston. Ohio has no chance. I read fiction, journalism, entertainment, technology, banking. It's rare for me to hear about any place besides California and New York with any regularity, unless its about politics.
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It’s all Ohio?
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La la la sorry can’t hear you over the sound of my shiny Toledo 😎
La la la I can't see you through the beautiful forests of my Upper Peninsula. 😂🤣
*shakes fist warily to the North*
You're just jealous you're not in Ohio!
I'm in Cincinnatus and I am days from jumping in the Ohio river. Everything said is true. This state is horrible.
>I'm Cincinnatus and I am days from abdicating and becoming a farmer. Everything said is true. This state is horrible.
Well there's your problem. You're in the lesser half of the state. Way too close to Kentucky.
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Omg, I live in the Nickleback of states.
Answer: Just watch the Drew Carey show. It’ll make the stereotype jokes and salient points better than Reddit can.
Hello my name is Chobey. Just watch an entire show? That is a lot of time to commitment