Montagem Miau takes its name from the Portuguese word for meow and from montagem, the Brazilian funk and phonk editing style built on looping a vocal chop over a heavy beat. The version shared online carries Chinese text about digging a nose and repeated meow sounds in its file title, which helped the miaomiao clip spread as a novelty meme sound. It is now reused in short form videos, pet edits and phonk remixes where a cute animal noise over a hard beat creates the joke.