The 'Sasuke Choke Edits' originated from a tense scene in the anime series Naruto: Shippuden, where Itachi Uchiha pins his younger brother Sasuke against a wall by his throat. The meme gained massive viral popularity in early 2019 when Twitter users began photoshopping the image to combine Sasuke with various other characters, objects, and celebrities to make it look like they were the ones choking him. The format is highly versatile, allowing creators to pair Sasuke's defeated expression with anything from Shaggy from Scooby-Doo to Gordon Ramsay. It typically represents a situation where one entity is being completely overwhelmed or dominated by another in a humorous or surreal context.