The Train Hitting a School Bus meme is a classic object-labeling format that illustrates a massive locomotive obliterating a school bus. The visual actually originates from a 2017 YouTube video showcasing the game Forza Motorsport 7, rather than a real-life event. It gained massive popularity on Reddit in mid-2020 as a metaphor for an inevitable, powerful force crushing a smaller or more vulnerable entity. Users typically label the bus as a positive goal or a person and the train as a catastrophic problem or a harsh reality that unexpectedly ruins everything.