This meme originates from Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi epic, Interstellar. During a high-stakes mission on Miller's planet, where time moves significantly slower than on Earth, Matthew McConaughey's character, Cooper, utters this line to emphasize the gravity of a delay. The scene highlights the concept of time dilation, where an hour on the planet equates to seven years elsewhere. In internet culture, the quote and image of a stressed Cooper are used to mock situations where a supposedly 'quick' action—like a Windows update, a grocery trip, or a gaming session—ends up taking an absurdly long amount of time.