Floribella was the Portuguese version of the hit telenovela format, broadcast on SIC in the mid 2000s and remembered for its fairy tale romance and broad comedy. Clips from the show were reposted and mocked in some of the earliest Portuguese YouTube parodies around 2006, when users cut single insulting lines out of context for laughs. Sua hiena sardenta survived because the phrase sounds ridiculous even without the scene, mixing an animal comparison with a very specific detail about freckles. It still circulates in Portuguese meme edits and soundboards as a nostalgic novela jab.