Actually, I've been waiting for a man like you for a long time
TL;DR · OriginThe line comes from Rose in the theatrical feature Crayon Shin-chan: The Dark Tama Tama Pursuit, known in Korea as Jjanggu: The Great Pursuit of the Dark Demon King. Rose del…
Origin
The line comes from Rose in the theatrical feature Crayon Shin-chan: The Dark Tama Tama Pursuit, known in Korea as Jjanggu: The Great Pursuit of the Dark Demon King. Rose delivers it like a confession: "Truthfully, I've been waiting for a man like you for a long time."
What became the meme is not that line alone but the sequence that follows it. Rose builds the mood of a sincere confession, immediately overturns it with "Just kidding," and the scene escalates into anger. That bait-and-yank structure is where the humor lives — not in the line itself.
The Korean dub amplified it. In the Daewon Broadcasting version, the delivery carries a regional accent and a distinctive diction absent from the original, giving it a homespun texture; the unusual sentence ending "-dau" became the meme's signature marker. Details are documented on Namuwiki.
This is a meme that surfaced long after the film's release. The trigger was the COVID-19 pandemic: as social distancing kept people indoors, YouTube filled with videos revisiting memorable lines from childhood cartoons.
Other Crayon Shin-chan lines were unearthed in the same wave. This one stands among the most prominent of that revival. The driver was generational — viewers who watched the dub as children were now adults re-consuming the same scene.
Usage
In practice it reproduces the original's structure: feign sincerity, then pull the rug out. It is more often paired with the "just kidding" beat than used alone.
- Building someone up before immediately undercutting it as a joke
- Play-acting a confession or an earnest declaration
- Reacting archly by swapping "man" for a non-human subject
The original clip, a captioned screenshot of Rose, and plain text quotation all circulate.
The most common variant empties out the word "man": "Truthfully, I've been waiting for a ___ like you for a long time," where the blank takes a person, an object, or a situation. Namuwiki filing the entry under "waiting for an XXX like you" reflects exactly this templating.
The meme is representative of the early-2020s Korean internet trend of rediscovering Crayon Shin-chan dub lines — part of a broader pattern where scenes from children's animation are re-consumed by adult users.
