Content Aware Scaling, also known as Liquid Rescaling, became a viral sensation through the creative misuse of Photoshop's seam carving algorithm. By attempting to resize an image while preserving 'important' pixels, the tool often produces nightmarish and hilarious distortions of faces and objects. The trend exploded on YouTube and Tumblr during the early 2010s, where creators would sync the visual warping to loud, distorted audio for a 'bass-boosted' or surreal effect. Today, the meme is a staple of internet culture, used to represent extreme frustration, intense realization, or general absurdity by turning ordinary photos into abstract expressions of chaos.