The Strawberry Elephant became famous through Grow a Garden, the Roblox farming game released in 2025, where it is one of the rarest and most valuable pets players can obtain. Clips of it spawning spread on TikTok and YouTube Shorts because the odds are so low that a spawn feels like an event. Fans began reusing the short spawning cue outside gameplay as a shorthand for extreme luck. It is still used in edits and soundboards whenever something improbably rare, cute and valuable suddenly appears.