The exact origin of the 'jork the sad away' clip is unclear, so it lives mainly as a piece of internet slang turned into audio. The phrase reads like a playful typo of 'jerk the sad away', and that silliness helped it catch on as a caption and soundbite for mood-lifting memes. Short meme sounds like this travel fast because they fit reaction edits, sad-scene parodies and feel-good compilations. It keeps getting reused because the joke is instantly readable: sadness shows up, and the sound tells it to leave.