The waiting images behind the meme come from the television series Narcos, first released in 2015, which shows Pablo Escobar alone on a swing, by a pool and in other empty places. Those stills spread as templates for boredom and loneliness, and short audio clips became attached to the format as it moved through meme pages, chats and short videos. The Pablo version remains popular because the situation is instantly readable without context, so creators reuse it whenever a character is ignored, forgotten or left waiting.