The clip builds on the viral chicken on tree screaming meme, in which a chicken's loud, frantic squawk became a reusable reaction sound across short videos and soundboards. Bass-boosted versions took that already exaggerated noise and pushed its low end even harder, making it louder, harsher and better suited to jump-scare edits. Because the sound is only a fraction of a second long, creators can drop it into almost any clip without breaking the pacing, which has kept the boosted version circulating long after the original meme peaked.