The clip comes from a WNEP news interview at the Wayne County Fair in Pennsylvania in August 2014, when five-year-old Noah Ritter was asked about the fair and answered with a very grown-up apparently. The video was uploaded to YouTube and exploded on Vine and Facebook, turning Ritter into the Apparently Kid overnight and landing him an appearance on daytime talk television. Editors still pull the audio for reaction memes because the formal word in a child's voice instantly frames any obvious statement as a mock revelation.