The Mugshawtys meme originated from popular social media accounts, most notably on Instagram and Twitter, that curated and shared police booking photos of attractive women. The phenomenon plays on the 'pretty privilege' trope and the internet's ironic obsession with 'chaotic' energy. It popularized the 'I can fix her' catchphrase, where users jokingly suggest they could reform the person in the mugshot through a relationship. The meme is used extensively for humor involving simping, ironic romanticism, and the aesthetics of delinquency, making it a staple of modern image-board and social media culture.