The line comes from Goobacks, a 2004 South Park episode where time travelling immigrants take low paid work and local labourer Darryl Weathers leads protests chanting They took our jobs. The phrase became one of the show's most quoted catchphrases and spread widely as a reaction meme. In German speaking clips the dubbed chant Die klauen unsere Jobs carries the same joke, shared in edits and soundboards whenever jobs, tasks or opportunities are supposedly stolen, long after the episode first aired.