The clip is listed as coming from the 1942 Donald Duck cartoon Donald Gets Drafted, where its rapid wooden squeaks fit the film's exaggerated cartoon sound design. The same type of small, quick creak has long been used as a stock effect for twisting, rubbing, and fidgeting objects. Online, it found a second life when editors began searching for a sound to match anime ear-cleaning scenes, where the delicate, repetitive squeaks mirror the on-screen action and make an otherwise quiet moment feel funny and oddly satisfying.