The line comes from the opening of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, released in 2004, when protagonist Carl Johnson, known as CJ, returns to Los Santos and is immediately pulled back into trouble. Players and editors clipped the weary greeting because it summed up the whole game in a few seconds, and it spread through YouTube edits, reaction videos, and TikTok as shorthand for deja vu. It endures because almost everyone recognises the feeling of a bad situation starting again.