The sound is credited to Filthy Frank, the deliberately abrasive YouTube persona created by George Miller, whose confrontational comedy clips became a staple of online meme culture. The phrase itself works as a universal shutdown, so editors lifted the short line from its original video context and reused it as a standalone reaction sound. It spread through soundboards, meme edits, and reaction videos, where its directness made it easy to drop into almost any argument or complaint. It remains popular because the delivery is instantly recognisable and the joke needs no setup.