Salad Fingers is the title character of a British animated web series created by David Firth and first released online in 2004. The surreal Flash cartoons follow a gaunt, green humanoid living alone in a desolate landscape, and his gentle voice contrasts sharply with the disturbing imagery around him. Clips from the series circulated for years on video sites and forums before finding a second life in memes, reaction videos and short-form edits. The greeting remains popular because it is immediately familiar, easy to drop into a joke, and carries the series' unsettling tone in just a few seconds.