Unlike studio recordings of actual rotary cannons, this version spread as a user made soundboard clip built from a vocal impersonation, as its original description notes it was literally done with the mouth. That homemade quality helped it circulate among creators who wanted minigun fire without a serious or realistic tone. It remains popular for parodies, game montages and short meme edits where the joke depends on obviously fake firepower, and where a real weapons recording would feel too intense or out of place for the scene.