Potaxio circulated online as part of the Potaxie meme vocabulary on TikTok, where creators attach short, nonsensical name drops and shouts to edits, remixes and reaction videos. The clip itself is only about a second long, which helped it spread as a reusable sound rather than a full scene people needed to recognise. Users searching for potaxie often land on this spelling, and editors keep reusing it because a single unfamiliar word can work in almost any comic context without explanation.