I'm going to throw this at you with no context.
This odd thing is derived from a game which itself was derived from a manga (with rather little anime to its credit) called JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
It wouldn't be inappropriate to call JoJo's Bizarre adventure a saga, as the first volume involves a vampire in Victorian England, the second involved a bunch of super vampires and Nazis, and so on (well, the vampire angle gets mostly dropped after the third volume), and the second main character is the grandson of the first and the grandfather of the third. (In consecutive volumes, it gets a bit convoluted, with an illegitimate son who is the younger uncle of his predecessor, a guy whose relation to the family is really messed up, and then swings back around to protagonist number three's daughter. Then the universe gets reset. Yeah... Apparently, it's the longest-running manga without a televised anime adaptation, going since 1987.
On a slightly unrelated note, apparently the character designs and other aspects of the manga inspired at least some of the characters in the early Street Fighter games.)
The whole thing with the steamroller is apparently a sort of simplification of something that volume three's main villain was known for-hitting people with large, heavy vehicles. For some reason, the thing that stuck in everyone's mind was the "roadroller" (apparently the Japanese word for a steamroller), and so it's reached seriously memey levels.
See?
-Signing off.
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