Manoel Gomes is a Brazilian singer from Maranhão who became a national viral figure in 2019 with his song Caneta Azul, shared widely on WhatsApp and YouTube. His homemade videos, sincere singing and distinctive accent turned short excerpts of his performances into reusable meme audio across Brazil. Clips built around boasts like tipo Hollywood travel in the same way, pasted into edits, group chats and short videos where his voice alone signals the joke, long after the original performances first circulated online.