The 'I Smell Like Beef' meme originates from a viral video posted in 2014 featuring a young girl named Katie. In the short clip, she repeatedly whispers or states the phrase 'I smell like beef' while looking into the camera with a deadpan expression. The video gained massive traction on Vine and YouTube for its pure non-sequitur humor and quirky charm. Over the years, it has become a staple of internet nostalgia, used to describe situations where someone feels out of place, has a strange thought they can't stop sharing, or simply to celebrate the peak era of absurdist Vine culture.