All By Myself was written and first recorded by Eric Carmen in 1975, drawing its melody from Rachmaninoff. Celine Dion recorded her version for the 1996 album Falling Into You, and it became one of her signature power ballads and a major international hit. Online, the soaring chorus was clipped and reused far beyond the full song, becoming shorthand for dramatic loneliness in edits, reaction videos and memes where being alone is played for maximum emotion or comedy.