The 'Friend Inside Me' meme stems from a surreal and often eerie distortion of the iconic 'You've Got a Friend in Me' song from Toy Story. It gained significant traction after indie developer Toby Fox shared a bizarre, repetitive MIDI version of the track, which sparked a wave of fan-made remixes and glitchy visual art. The meme typically features a low-quality, distorted, or unsettling image of Woody, paired with existential or nonsensical captions. It has become a staple of 'void meme' and surrealist internet culture, where the comfort of childhood nostalgia is subverted into something strange and hypnotic.