The 'Winnebago Man' meme originated from a series of 1988 industrial film outtakes featuring salesman Jack Rebney, who became an unintentional legend due to his explosive, profanity-laden outbursts while filming a sales video for Winnebago motorhomes. Initially shared via underground VHS tape swapping, the footage gained worldwide fame when it hit YouTube in the mid-2000s, later inspiring the 2009 documentary 'Winnebago Man.' The meme is characterized by Rebney’s intense frustration with flies, the heat, and his own inability to remember his lines. It is widely used to represent peak professional frustration, existential dread, or those moments when everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.