Escabiar is Lunfardo slang from Argentina for drinking alcohol, and escabiando turns that everyday word into the whole joke of this clip. The phrase ya anda escabiando is the kind of line friends repeat when someone in the group is famously the first to start. Short Spanish voice notes like this spread easily through WhatsApp groups, story edits and meme pages, where the audio becomes a reusable reaction. Its popularity comes from how specific and familiar it feels, instantly recognisable to anyone who knows that one friend.