Svistopupsel circulates online as a short Russian meme sound, shared mainly in joke edits and reaction clips rather than through a widely known film or television scene. Its appeal comes from the word itself, which sounds playful and invented even to Russian speakers, making it easy to reuse without context. Because it is brief and instantly recognisable to people who have heard it before, creators keep dropping it into new videos as a quick absurd tag, and its small but persistent presence on meme soundboards has kept it in circulation.