On January 11th, 2023, Twitter [10] user Bolverk15 tweeted, "bro how is this the dude people consider to be some savior of masculinity – literal wojak," gaining roughly 157,700 likes in six days ...

From there, @blahaj__blast, another mod, posted a meme showing Homer's face crudely pasted into a Wojak video, captioned, "Day in the life of a Gomer," thus coining the name "Gomer" for this bizarro ...