The Police I Swear To God meme serves as a comedic commentary on common tropes found in anime and gaming, where characters who appear to be children are revealed to be ancient beings. It typically depicts a frantic person attempting to explain a character's true age to an unimpressed or skeptical police officer. Gaining significant traction in the mid-2010s across platforms like Reddit and Twitter, the meme satirizes the loli trope and the absurdity of justifying visual character designs with convoluted lore. It is widely used to mock fanbases that get overly defensive about character ages or to highlight the bizarre nature of specific plot points in Japanese media where the age-appearance gap is extreme.