A YT video about “swampfest” showed up as a suggested. It’s a long video and I skipped around but it is 100% filled with Florida Men. The comments are great. The video is horrifying. If you search, you should find it and it has over a million views in the short time it’s been out.
Some people come to Florida because they are already Florida Man and are responding to the call of their natural habitat. Some folks become Florida Man after living here a while. When you are surrounded by crazies, it affects your view of normality.
I have been living under the impression all this time Florida’s reporting laws make Florida Man a reality, but THIS REVIEW says otherwise.
Even coupled with the characteristics of Florida and its residents that many people claim are unique, the open records law-based theory for Florida Man’s existence falls short of explaining the phenomenon.
This Article posits that the primary reasons for Florida Man’s popularity are pre-existing popular culture trends and the venue in which Florida Man rose to fame: the internet. Internet platforms allow a wide audience-which may already have been receptive to jokes about Florida due to its reputation for being a newsworthy state to easily consume, share, and reshare Florida Man content, inspiring journalists to continue to write Florida Man stories. This cycle of generation and consumption of Florida Man stories has allowed Florida Man to become one of the longest-living memes in internet history. While the Florida Public Records Law and characteristics of Florida and its people work together to provide raw material for Florida Man articles, the heretofore unmentioned popular culture and internet trend factors of the phenomenon complete the story behind Florida Man’s existence.
So this is not about a MAGA attempt to promote redneck values through an addition to their already dreck literature in the form of a lame superhero character?