The 'Driving Crooner' meme originates from a Season 3 sketch of the Netflix comedy series 'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.' In the sketch, Tim Robinson plays a man who has meticulously applied decals to his car's side window so that, when viewed from the right angle, he appears to be wearing a classic fedora and smoking a cigar. The humor stems from his intense dedication to this persona—The Driving Crooner—and his irrational fear that other drivers are trying to 'make it look fake' or even physically attack him for his art. Since the show's release in 2023, the meme has been used to describe niche hobbies, desperate attempts to appear cool, or situations where someone is overly defensive about a specific, bizarre vision they have.