The line comes from the time-card jokes in SpongeBob SquarePants, where a narrator announces absurd leaps forward in time between scenes. The English card reads 2000 years later, and the German dub renders it as 2000 Jahre später. Clips of the narrator became a reusable meme format online, especially in short-form video, because the formal announcement works over almost any footage. Editors still use it to exaggerate waiting and slow progress, and its familiarity means viewers recognise the joke before the next shot even appears.