This meme originates from the 2019 Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, during a scene where the remaining Avengers track down Thanos to his garden planet. When questioned about the whereabouts of the Infinity Stones, a weakened Thanos reveals he used their immense power to reduce the stones to atoms, uttering the now-legendary line: 'I used the stones to destroy the stones.' The template quickly became a staple for depicting situations where someone uses a tool, platform, or logic to eliminate that very same thing. Common examples include using a specific piece of software to uninstall itself or utilizing an ad-blocker to hide warnings about ad-blockers, emphasizing the paradoxical and poetic nature of the action.