The HP Touchpad Drawing eBay Auction meme originated in August 2011 during the massive $99 'firesale' of HP's discontinued webOS tablet. An eBay user, purportedly lacking a camera to photograph their device, uploaded a crude drawing created in Microsoft Paint to represent the item. The listing went viral across tech forums like Slickdeals and Reddit, admired for its hilarious simplicity and the seller's creative problem-solving. Today, the drawing is a nostalgic symbol of the early 2010s internet culture and is frequently used to mock low-quality listings or as a template for the 'expectations vs. reality' trope where the reality is a charmingly bad imitation.