The clip comes from Detroit: Become Human, the 2018 adventure game by Quantic Dream, where the android detective Connor, played by Bryan Dechart, reconstructs the murder of Carlos Ortiz. In the interrogation scene he states the victim was stabbed twenty eight times while questioning the deviant android responsible. Short edits of the line spread on TikTok and YouTube in meme edits, where the specific count became shorthand for excessive force. Its popularity endures because the serious delivery clashes with everyday situations it now describes.