The account was retired in 2019. Shortly after retiring the account, creator Freddie Campion told the Washington Post he did so because the Florida Man meme had become a little too mean-spirited.

Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Perspective by Julio Capó Jr. Many people know the “Florida Man” meme through bizarre headlines, like the recent “Florida man ...

“Florida Man” memes have become infamous cultural touchstones — and now they’ve been adapted as a Netflix series with a star-studded cast. “Florida Man,” created by Donald Todd ...

The “Florida Man Games” is a new competition coming to Florida in February based around finding the best real-life examples of the “Florida Man” meme, a decade-old joke first started by ...

These hilarious memes about Florida man and the state he calls home perfectly explain the weird side of this southern ...

It's Florida, Man is here to make you rethink the meme that simultaneously celebrates and denigrates a particular brand of American eccentric. From the producers of The Righteous Gemstones ...

Man” dramatizes some of the wildest stories that inspired the ubiquitous “Florida Man” meme. Entertainment Critic Having just survived the brutality of Hurricane Milton, the Sunshine State ...

For the past decade, the “Florida Man” meme has been dedicated to collecting — and mildly ridiculing — odd news stories that come out of the Southeastern state, usually including ...

The “Florida Man” meme is pretty well known by now; it’s about stories coming from the Sunshine State that are so strange that they can’t be believed, even though they’re all true.

From this, the Florida Man meme rose to prominence on social media, sharing snippets of outrageous stories for easy laughs, carelessly turning perpetrators and victims alike into punchlines.