The 'Welcome to the Rice Fields, Motherfucker' meme originated from a 2012 YouTube video by George Miller, better known as Filthy Frank. In the clip, the character jumps out of tall grass wearing a bamboo hat, shouting the aggressive greeting at the camera. This moment quickly became a staple of absurdist internet humor, representing the 'edgy' and unpredictable nature of early 2010s YouTube culture. Today, the template is widely used as a reaction image to denote entering a hostile or confusing situation, or as a nostalgic reference to the Papa Franku era of content creation.