The clip comes from a Chinese talent show performance that was later uploaded to YouTube and shared as a standalone laughing clip. Its musical, over-the-top laugh made it easy to lift from the original context and reuse as a meme sound, similar to other laugh reactions like the baby laughing meme. It spread through short video edits and soundboards where creators needed a laugh that was bigger and stranger than a normal reaction, and it remains popular because the rhythm is memorable even without seeing the original performance.