Cartoon character in pink room with caption 'me everytime after the lobotomy' and facepalm and laughing emojis

Me Everytime After The Lobotomy

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Published October 15, 2026

Me Everytime After The Lobotomy is a video exploitable that started on Reddit's r/okbuddyretard in November 2021, pairing a clip of Bart Simpson from a 2004 pitch demo bumping into walls with flashing subliminal imagery. By 2023, the format fused with Hood Irony on TikTok to spawn the Hood Lobotomy subgenre and its own hashtag.

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Overview

Me Everytime After The Lobotomy is built around a top caption, usually written with a facepalm emoji and crying-laughing emoji, slapped over a disorienting video clip edited to feel like forced schizo imagery1. The original template showed Bart Simpson wandering a 3D environment and smacking into walls, with the footage ripped from a 2004 pitch demo for what later shipped as The Simpsons Game in 20072. Editors stacked the clip with embossed filters, color inversions, flashes of The Beatles' Abbey Road cover, and jarring sound effects to simulate the aftermath of an imagined lobotomy1.

As the template got passed around, creators kept the top caption fixed and swapped in different cursed subjects, from anime characters to creepy Caillou edits1. The joke works because the caption frames whatever absurd, incoherent footage follows as a self-deprecating confession, where the poster plays up noncoherent avant-garde chaos as proof their brain is cooked.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (origin) / TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
Jacooo2019
Date
2021

On November 9, 2021, Redditor Jacooo2019 posted the first known version of the video to r/okbuddyretard with the caption "me everytime after the lobotomy 🤦🏾‍♂️😂:"3. The clip pulled from a 2004 pitch demo video for The Simpsons Game, showing Bart running into walls while filters warped the footage and Abbey Road flashed on screen2. The post sat at roughly 3,100 upvotes before moderators eventually took it down1.

The source footage itself predates the meme by almost two decades. The pitch demo had been uploaded publicly to YouTube, giving editors an obscure, slightly uncanny asset to repurpose for a video that would eventually get stripped, reskinned, and relabeled countless times2.

How It Spread

After the Reddit post, the clip jumped to iFunny in December 2021, where user CursedEdits uploaded a moldier remix that added Tighten Staring frames and demonic stick figures to the flashing imagery1. Instagram reposts followed in early 2022, and on May 29, 2022, TikToker sw1ftr brought the original edit to TikTok, where it pulled around 400,900 plays and 65,200 likes over the next eight months1.

New iterations started landing on TikTok through summer and fall 2022. On July 24, 2022, dotquack posted a version featuring Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga from Azumanga Daioh under the same caption, which earned about 32,100 plays and 4,400 likes4. A few weeks later, on September 9, 2022, funnyvideoclipchart captioned a creepy Caillou video with the phrase, picking up roughly 31,600 plays and 2,200 likes5.

In early 2023, the aesthetic merged with TikTok's Hood Irony scene, where Greenscreen Silhouette edits and the lobotomy video style got blended into one chaotic genre1. Comment sections on those videos coined the phrase "Hood Lobotomy," which later became a hashtag and its own subgenre of schizoposting edits1.

Timeline

2004

A pitch demo for what became The Simpsons Game is produced, showing Bart Simpson running into walls, later uploaded to YouTube as source footage.

2021-11-09

Redditor Jacooo2019 posts the first known version of the video to r/okbuddyretard with the "me everytime after the lobotomy" caption.

2021-12-15

IFunny user CursedEdits uploads a remix with added flashing imagery like Tighten Staring and demonic stick figures.

2022-05-29

TikToker sw1ftr reposts the original edit, which racks up roughly 400,900 plays and 65,200 likes over eight months.

2022-07-24

TikToker dotquack posts an Osaka from Azumanga Daioh version, earning around 32,100 plays.

2022-09-09

TikToker funnyvideoclipchart captions a creepy Caillou video with the phrase.

2023

TikTok commenters coin "Hood Lobotomy," fusing the format with Hood Irony Greenscreen Silhouette edits and spawning the #hoodlobotomy hashtag.

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