Bass boosting became a staple of online edits in the 2010s, when creators remixed familiar songs by turning the low frequencies up far beyond a normal mix. Honeypie joined that trend as a short, shareable loop, spreading through meme pages, edit communities and short video feeds. Its appeal sits alongside other boosted clips like Subway Surfers Bass Boosted and NFL Bass Boosted, where the exaggerated thump itself is the joke and the reward. It is still used because seventeen seconds is enough to change the mood without taking over a whole video.