The quote 'Are you talking to me?' comes from Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), improvised by Robert De Niro as the unstable Travis Bickle and long considered one of cinema's most quoted lines. Decades later, meme culture remixed it through Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character created by Matt Furie for his 2005 comic Boy's Club who became one of the internet's most recognisable mascots. Pairing the frog's deadpan voice with the famous movie threat turned the line into a shareable reaction clip, and creators still use it to spoof bravado and pick playful fights online.