The name comes from the 'Bandido da Luz Vermelha', the Red Light Bandit, a notorious São Paulo criminal of the 1960s whose story inspired a famous 1968 Brazilian film. The recording itself has no confirmed source; it simply circulates online as a short meme audio, passed around on Brazilian soundboards and chats as a reaction clip. Its staying power comes from the contrast: a genuinely menacing shout, complete with the repeated 'mata ela' hook, that creators repurpose as comedy. That tension between threat and joke keeps it in rotation years after it first appeared.