The WASTED screen has been part of Grand Theft Auto since the early games, but the slow sting from Grand Theft Auto V, released in 2013, became the version most people recognise from fail compilations on YouTube and later TikTok. Editors began dropping it over real-life crashes, sports misses and gaming deaths because the game-over cue instantly told viewers someone had lost. This edit pairs that cue with a blunt insult, a common meme-editing trick that makes the failure feel personal as well as dramatic, which is why it still works in short videos today.