Little is known about who first recorded the Ji Ba clip, so its history is mostly in how it spread as a short soundboard button online. The phrase is written in Chinese characters as 雞吧 and shared in romanised form as ji ba, which helped it travel beyond Chinese speaking audiences. On meme pages and in short video edits it became a reusable reaction sound, valued less for any specific source scene and more for its brevity, making it easy to reuse across chats, streams and compilations without any setup or context needed.