The 'Winged Doom' meme, also known as 'Welcome to Omsk,' features a haunting, red-cloaked bird-like figure originally created by German artist Heiko Müller. While the painting was titled 'Winged Doom,' it was adopted by the Russian imageboard culture around 2009 as the personification of the city of Omsk. In internet lore, Omsk is depicted as a surreal, inescapable place filled with dark humor and hallucinogenic undertones, often symbolized by the phrase 'Welcome to Omsk.' The character, known as the 'Omsk Bird,' has since become a staple of surreal internet culture, used to represent despair, absurdist situations, or the bizarre nature of specific locations and inescapable subcultures.