The sound comes from the long running Only in Ohio meme that spread across TikTok and YouTube in 2022, where Ohio is joked about as a place where normal rules stop working. Creators started applying the joke to everything, including cars that morph, glitch or act possessed for no reason. The POV framing puts the viewer in the driver seat, which made the car version especially shareable for edits and remixes. It is still used whenever something looks cursed, random or impossible to explain, much like other goofy ahh sounds.