The sound comes from a viral video recorded in an Ohio convenience store in December 2020, where a man using racial slurs was struck in the face with a can of Twisted Tea iced tea. The clip spread rapidly on Twitter and TikTok, and the distinct can smack was isolated as a standalone meme sound. It remains widely used in edits as shorthand for sudden, deserved payback, similar in function to a whip crack or a slapstick hit, without needing the full confrontational context of the original video.