The line comes from American Psycho, released in 2000 and known in Brazil as Psicopata Americano, where Patrick Bateman describes himself as an abstraction rather than a real person. In Portuguese the key phrase became eu simplesmente não existo, and that shortened version spread online as a standalone reaction clip. Brazilian meme pages and video edits kept the fragment because it works without the full monologue, expressing absence, social invisibility and emotional numbness in under three seconds, which is why it still circulates far beyond fans of the film.