The DALL-E meme phenomenon emerged as AI image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E and DALL-E Mini became publicly accessible, allowing users to turn any absurd text prompt into a visual reality. This sparked a wave of surreal and often 'cursed' imagery, where users competed to find the most chaotic prompts imaginable—ranging from courtroom sketches of fictional characters to existential horrors. The meme captures the often unpredictable and nightmare-inducing nature of early generative AI, highlighting the hilarious gap between human intent and machine interpretation. It is widely used to satirize tech culture, visualize intrusive thoughts, or simply share the unsettling yet funny failures of artificial intelligence.