Disaster Girl Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Disaster Girl template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it.
Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.
What is the Disaster Girl meme?
Disaster Girl is a photo of a young girl glancing back at the camera with a sly little smile while a house burns behind her and firefighters work near a fire truck. Her knowing expression makes it look as if she started the fire and is quietly pleased with the result. Captions treat her as the cheerful mastermind behind any chaos: a broken build, a ruined group chat, a stadium meltdown. The image has also been edited onto other disasters for years.
Origin: Dave Roth photographed his daughter Zoe in 2005 in Mebane, North Carolina, while the local fire department burned a house in a controlled training exercise. The photo spread online a few years later.
Also known as: Burning House Girl, Fire Girl Meme, Zoe Roth.
How to use the Disaster Girl meme
The top box describes the disaster or the scheme, and the bottom box is her smug reaction, usually something like "just as I planned" or "you're welcome". The top box can also stay empty if the bottom line is enough.
It fits sabotage played for laughs: being the one who pushed a breaking change, sending an innocent message that starts a family fight, a sibling getting in trouble, a referee's call that ruins the game. Her face suggests guilt with zero regret, so first-person captions work best.
Disaster Girl meme ideas
- (blank) / just as I planned...
- me after one tiny commit to main / everything is going according to plan
- after I asked the group chat which movie is best / my work here is done
- when I tell the teacher she forgot the homework / you're welcome
- after my sibling gets blamed for the vase / just as I planned
- when the group project falls apart / and it wasn't my part
About the Disaster Girl meme template
The Disaster Girl template (disastergirl) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “just as I planned...”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/disastergirl/_/just_as_I_planned....png