Werner began as a German comic character created by Rötger Feldmann and grew into a series of animated films starting in the early 1990s, known for rough northern German humour, motorcycles and workshop chaos. Short dialogue clips from the films circulate widely on German soundboards and in chat groups, where familiar lines work without any setup. This particular denial survives because it is short, quotable and tied to a well known character, so German speaking creators reuse it whenever blame is being passed around online today.