The 'Mother Ignoring Kid Drowning In A Pool' meme, also known as the 'Drowning Kid' or 'Skeleton in the Pool' meme, is a three-panel object-labeling format used to illustrate blatant neglect or favoritism. The image features a mother holding up a small child in a swimming pool while another child struggles to swim behind her, followed by a final shot of a skeleton sitting in a chair at the bottom of the pool. It originated from a 2018 Instagram post and gained massive traction on Reddit as a way to compare how different subjects—such as software features, historical events, or personal habits—are treated with varying degrees of attention. The 'mother' represents the person or entity in control, the 'favored child' is the current priority, the 'drowning kid' is the neglected task, and the 'skeleton' represents the part that has been entirely abandoned.