Little is documented about the original recording behind Ninja Taxi 2, so its life is mainly online as a short soundboard clip shared under that name. The Portuguese listing ninja e taxi 2 suggests it also circulated among Brazilian users, which helped the odd pairing of ninja and taxi stick as a search term. Its appeal is the brevity, a one and a half second burst that creators can drop into edits without explaining the reference, and it keeps being reused as a random, out of context punchline.