The 'Local Man Ruins Everything' meme originates from a classic episode of The Simpsons titled 'Homer the Vigilante,' featuring a news segment hosted by Kent Brockman. The visual depicts a news graphic with a man's silhouette and the blunt headline 'LOCAL MAN RUINS EVERYTHING.' It became a staple of internet culture for its comedic simplicity, perfectly capturing situations where an individual's actions lead to disproportionate chaos or social embarrassment. Users typically overlay their own faces or the faces of public figures onto the silhouette to point out someone's track record of failures or to joke about their own self-sabotaging tendencies.