Ocean Man was written by the American rock band Ween and released in 1997 on their album The Mollusk, later reaching a wider audience in the end credits of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004. The song became a major meme in the mid 2010s, paired with surreal edits and nostalgic clips online. The voice crack version adds a human failure to that familiar chorus, which is why it spread as a reaction sound on social media and in edited videos where an earnest attempt suddenly falls apart.