The sound comes from Minibods, the animated children's series produced by Moonbug, where short spooky night segments use exaggerated animal noises for gentle scares. Clips of the screaming cat were lifted from those scenes and shared on soundboards under names mixing English, Spanish and Portuguese words like gato gritando, meaning screaming cat. That mix helped it travel across meme and edit communities looking for a quick feline scream. It remains popular because few cat sounds are this clean, short and cartoon clear.