The term 'Gaslighting' originates from the 1938 play 'Gas Light,' where a husband manipulates his wife into questioning her own sanity by subtly dimming gas-powered lights and denying it. In the digital age, the concept has been reclaimed by meme culture as a shorthand for absurdly persistent denials of reality. It reached peak popularity with the 'Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss' parody of the 'Live, Laugh, Love' aesthetic, mocking corporate pseudo-feminism. Today, the meme is frequently used to describe everything from actual psychological manipulation to humorous situations where someone insists a very obvious truth is actually a lie.