The clip circulates online as a reaction sound rather than a full scene, shared in short form edits where a name specific shout gets more laughs than a plain scream. Its popularity comes from how instantly readable the emotion is, even without any context about who Joey is or what happened. That ambiguity helps it travel across fandom edits, gaming clips and friend group memes, where viewers fill in the disaster themselves and reuse the audio whenever someone named Joey, or acting like one, becomes the centre of attention.