The clip comes from Gary Busey's appearance in an Amazon Fire TV advertisement, where his famously eccentric delivery turned a simple exclamation into a memorable moment. Fans lifted the woah from the advert and shared it as a short reaction sound, and it soon found a second life on soundboards and in meme edits. Its appeal is straightforward: Busey's voice is instantly distinctive, the reaction is universally understood, and the clip is short enough to drop into almost any surprising scene without slowing the joke down.