The clip comes from Saba's VTuber debut stream on YouTube, introduced with the greeting yoho and a fish emoji in the stream title. Fans isolated this brief mispronunciation of paper boat because it summed up her playful sailor themed persona in less than a second. It then circulated as a standalone soundboard clip, shared in short edits and fan compilations rather than as part of a longer song or scene. Its appeal is its instant recognisability, with the accent and timing doing all the work.