Joueur du Grenier, created by Frédéric Molas, is a long-running French YouTube series reviewing retro video games with humor and exaggerated frustration. Over time, JDG catchphrases became memes among French-speaking viewers, shared as short soundboard clips far beyond the original videos. En avant les opés spés spread in that context, as shorthand for sponsored operations, the commercial partnerships creators now regularly include. Its popularity comes from familiarity and self-awareness, letting audiences joke about advertising instead of just enduring it, which keeps the phrase in regular circulation.