The clip comes from a user-generated soundboard where it was uploaded under the title Stray cat looks like Grandma and tagged with Michael Rapaport, with the short published description reading simply Ma. It belongs to a wave of pet lookalike memes where creators film scruffy street cats and compare their wrinkled faces to elderly relatives. The thirteen-second length makes it ideal for quick reaction edits, and its wholesome tone helped it travel across meme pages as a gentle joke about rescue cats rather than a mean-spirited roast, often shared alongside the cat laugh meme and the sad meow song.