The meme by memesforscumbags was reposted by a variety of accounts, including Instagram user minecraftgamergirl6969 and Facebook page I Wish I Was At Home Listening To Swans 2 on January 21st, gaining over 11,600 likes on the former and 1,100 reactions in just over a month. These memes became increasingly popular on Tenor around July 2021 (example shown below). Alternatively, an animated non-Unicode Emoji showing a nerdy character fixing his glasses is used in similar memes where a complaint or nerdy caption is placed over the GIF.