The 'Brother, May I Have Some Oats' meme stems from vintage 19th-century British livestock paintings that depicted animals with exaggerated, rectangular proportions to showcase 'improved' breeding. The meme features a massive, distorted pig politely requesting sustenance from a smaller pig, only to be rejected. It went viral in 2016 on platforms like Twitter and Tumblr, where users fell in love with its formal dialogue and surreal, almost haunting aesthetic. The meme is primarily used to represent situations involving greed, exclusion, or the desperate desire for something mundane, delivered with a strangely poetic and heartbreaking tone.