So, I searched for the mural specifically instead of the entire image in Google Images, and I found this from this reddit post from last year:

I looked the image up in tineye, and found the oldest use to be this picture from pikabu.ru from 2016:

So, while the image itself might be AI, the mural/meme definitely predates AI.
Hated every moment of it!

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