The Distressed Fumino meme features the character Fumino Furuhashi from the anime series 'We Never Learn' (Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai). The template typically consists of a vertical progression of panels showing Fumino's expression shifting from cheerful to increasingly traumatized and 'hollow-eyed.' It first gained major traction on platforms like Reddit's r/animemes around 2019, where users utilized the format to depict the stages of realizing a terrible mistake or discovering an unsettling truth. Similar to the 'Traumatized Mr. Incredible' format, this meme is a staple for conveying escalating dread or the crushing weight of reality in a humorous, relatable way.