Like many shitpost staples, this clip has no single credited origin and circulates as an anonymous meme sound effect across soundboards and short-form video. Its two-second length made it ideal for TikTok edits, Discord soundboards and YouTube poop-style compilations, where creators needed a quick, disruptive punchline. It spread because fart humor is universally understood and instantly breaks tension, spawning variants like fart with reverb and the longer brain fart take. It remains in rotation because it is low-effort and reliable, a crude audio caption signaling the video is not meant to be taken seriously.