The capybara song spread as a short looping meme on TikTok and other short video platforms, where users paired the repeated chant with clips of real capybaras at zoos, in baths and alongside other animals. Capybaras had already become internet favourites for their placid temperament and deadpan faces, and the song gave that image a simple soundtrack anyone could reuse. Because the lyric is just the animal's name, it crosses languages easily and works even without context, which helped the clip keep circulating in edits, remixes and animal compilations long after the first posts.