The melody comes from Jacques Offenbach's 1858 operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, where the Galop infernal became the music most people now call the Can Can. Online, the tune was paired with Germano Mosconi, the Italian television journalist whose leaked off-air outbursts made him an early YouTube meme in Italy in the 2000s. Editors reused the frantic dance music for parodies, remixes and sped-up sketches, and the pairing stuck as a shorthand for Italian meme chaos that still circulates on soundboards today.