The phrasing borrows from the 'go brrr' meme format that spread online in 2020, originally linked to the money printer go brrr joke and later applied to anything vibrating or working noisily. The ruler version pairs that caption with a familiar school desk trick students have done for decades, holding a ruler over a table edge and twanging it to change the pitch. Short clips of the sound were shared on soundboards and in meme edits, where it became shorthand for wobbling objects.