The sound comes from the Big Bad Wolf in the Three Little Pigs, the fairy tale best known to modern audiences through Disney's 1933 Silly Symphony cartoon. In the story the wolf threatens each pig in turn, promising to huff and puff and blow their houses down, succeeding with straw and sticks but failing with bricks. That repeated threat became one of the most quoted lines from the tale, and the blowing clip is now reused online as shorthand for exaggerated effort, strong wind and cartoon destruction.