The 'Chris Pratt getting ghosted' meme originates from a scene in the 2016 sci-fi film 'Passengers,' where Chris Pratt's character, Jim Preston, is aboard a spaceship en route to a distant colony. Faced with the daunting realization that he's been awoken 90 years too early, he sends a desperate message to Earth, only to be met with a soul-crushing response from the ship's AI: "Earliest reply: 55 years." This scene perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being utterly alone and the futility of expecting a timely response, making it ripe for meme culture to adopt it as a symbol for ghosting in a corporate or personal context.