Melayu Dengki circulates online as a short Malay meme phrase used to label jealous or petty behaviour in reaction videos and social edits. Its exact original recording is not widely documented, which is common for short clips shared and reposted across meme pages, but the phrase itself is easy to recognise for Malay-speaking viewers. That familiarity keeps it useful: creators can signal envy, shade, or a jealous reaction in a few seconds without a long explanation, and audiences familiar with the wording get the joke immediately from the tone alone.