The location where the "Disaster Girl" meme photo was taken

This is the location where the "Disaster Girl" meme photograph was taken.

It is situated at 112 West Holt Street in Mebane, North Carolina.

A local resident named Dave Roth took the photo during a controlled house fire in January 2005.

The owner of the property had donated it to the Mebane Fire Department, who set it ablaze as part of a training exercise.

This is a common practice in many towns, as it is a win-win for both parties. The owner gets their property demolished for free, while the fire department gets to train their personnel in a real-world burning exercise.

That day, the Roth family was at home watching television when they heard fire sirens. After looking outside and seeing smoke billowing up into the sky, they decided to walk over to the location and see what was happening.

Before they left, Dave grabbed his new camera.

While they were watching the exercise, Dave asked his five-year-old daughter, Zoe, to look at the camera and smile.

Three years later, the image went viral after it was shared on websites such as BuzzFeed, Digg, eBaum's World, and Reddit.

Zoe's "evil smile" caught the attention of photoshoppers, who superimposed her face onto images of disasters such as shipwrecks, plane crashes, and even the atomic bomb.

Later, people began to add captions to the image, such as:

"My parents wouldn't take me to McDonald's. So I decided to have a barbecue."

The meme remained popular until mid-2011, when interest in it gradually started to decline.