The Floating Chinese Government Officials meme, also known as the 'Huili Photoshop Disaster,' originated in June 2011 when a local government website in Sichuan, China, posted a photo of three officials inspecting a new road. The image was laughably poorly edited, making the men appear to hover several inches above the asphalt. The blatant manipulation immediately went viral on Weibo and later worldwide, becoming a symbol of government laziness, incompetence, and the 'faking' of progress. Today, it is used as a template to mock situations where people are clearly out of place or when a cover-up is painfully obvious to everyone watching.