The 'Fake Asiana Pilot Names' meme stems from one of the most notorious live television blunders in history, occurring during a 2013 KTVU news broadcast regarding the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash. An anchor unknowingly read aloud a list of phonetically racist prank names, including 'Sum Ting Wong' and 'Wi Tu Lo,' which had been 'confirmed' by an intern at the NTSB. The clip immediately went viral for its combination of dark irony and the sheer failure of journalistic vetting. Today, the meme is used to parody mainstream media mistakes, cultural insensitivity, or simply as a template for absurd and phonetically humorous names in a news-style format.