The clip comes from David After Dentist, a home video uploaded to YouTube in 2009 showing seven year old David DeVore Jr. in the car after dental surgery. Still groggy from anesthesia, he asks his dad if this is real life and wonders if it will be like this forever. The video spread quickly, passed one hundred million views, and the line became a shorthand online for feeling disoriented or unable to process what just happened, long after the original context faded.