Overview
From The Onion, the line "No one is doing anything. There is no typing, no mouse clicking, nothing. We saw one guy looking at the Google homepage, but he wasn't searching for anything. He was just staring blankly at the screen." turned into a universal reaction because the moment hits differently out of context. The combination of delivery, expression, and timing creates something that plain text or an emoji could never replicate. That gap between what you feel and what you can type is exactly where this meme lives.
