Fart noises have been a staple of lowbrow comedy for decades in cartoons, radio pranks and playground jokes, long before short-form video made them easy to share. This particular clip spread as a generic soundboard staple because it is short, loud and clearly artificial, so it reads as a joke rather than a real accident. Creators reuse it across memes, edits and live streams whenever they need a universal gross-out cue that needs no explanation and works in any language.