Waiting Skeleton

Where it came from
A stock photo of a human skeleton slumped on a bench, looking tired, from the mid-2000s. Became a meme around 2014 as the default "still waiting" image.
A skeleton sits on a bench in a posture of total defeat, chin on hand, like it's been there for decades. You caption it with something you've been waiting for that's clearly never coming. "Me waiting for [friend] to text back." "Me waiting for [company] to fix [bug]."
The joke is that the wait has literally killed the person. They died here. They're still waiting. It's the visual equivalent of "aging in real time", but funnier because it's bones.
Completely 2014-coded at this point but still turns up. It's one of those formats that's too simple to fully die.
Search interest, over time
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