The 'Thalasin' meme originates from the 'Blue Channel: Thalasin' video by animator Gooseworx, released in early 2021. Styled as a 90s pharmaceutical commercial, the video introduces a drug that allows users to experience a range of bizarre, non-human emotions like 'Loric,' 'Teluge,' and 'Dorcelessness.' The visual of a grid featuring increasingly distorted and horrifying faces became an instant viral hit in the analog horror community. It is widely used to represent feelings of existential dread, digital burnout, or simply to react to something so strange that normal human emotions cannot describe it. The template often features users adding their own surreal labels to the disturbing facial expressions.