About

Gomer Gimpson is a character depicted as Homer Simpson's face blended into a field of yellow. As a meme, Gomer Gimpson is edited onto a variety of images and videos, often poorly. The character was popularized on X / Twitter in February 2025 through the gimmick account @GomerGimpson, created by @joybuzz3r and jointly run by @joybuzz3r, @blahaj__blast and @mushroommn0327. The meme was started in late January by X user @joybuzz3r. The @GomerGimpson account began posting on February 2nd, 2025 and garnered over 11,000 followers in four days.

Origin

On January 27th, 2025, X^[7] user @joybuzz3r posted a meme showing a boy being overtaken by yellow ooze that turns him into Homer Simpson, garnering around one like in 10 days. This may be considered the first Gomer meme, although it does not use the name "Gomer" to refer to Homer.

On January 29th, 2025, X^[1] user blahaj__blast posted a video captioned, "Day in the life of a Gomer" in which Homer Simpson's face has been poorly edited into a Wojak-based video, writing, "i just got this in my dms what the fuck does this mean," garnering around 60 likes in a week. This is the earliest known meme posted to social media to refer to the character as "Gomer."

The X user continued to post Gomer memes over the following days. The memes typically poorly edit Gomer's face over a given subject. For example, on February 1st, the X^[2] user posted an edit of the what was the incident at your high school meme featuring Gomer, garnering over 120 likes in five days.

On February 2nd, 2025, X^[3] user @joybuzz3r opened the official @GomerGimpson gimmick account. That day, @GomerGimpson made their first post, consisting of Homer Simpson's face blended into a yellow background, writing, "gomer," garnering over 380 likes in four days.

Spread

The @GomerGimpson account continued to post memes featuring Gomer over the following days, with other X users also posting versions of the meme. Most of the memes feature Gomer edited, often poorly, over a subject. Some of these memes are submissions by fans of the page.

On February 4th, @GomerGimpson made a post to X^[4] sharing an edit of Gomer over a scene from Breaking Bad, garnering over 38,000 likes in two days.

Later that day, @GomerGimpson posted, "gomer love you." The X^[5] account then reposted their own post with a similar image of Peter Griffin in a field of his flesh tone, writing, "unless you geter. gomer dislike geter," garnering over 14,000 likes in two days.

On February 5th, X^[6] user @nescartridges posted a video edit of The Simpsons arcade game footage in which the game is taken over by Gomer once the player chooses to play as Homer, writing, "weird simpsons arcade glitch that made me have to restart the ROM," garnering over 17,000 likes in a day.

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