This clip comes from the SoundBible.com free sound library, where it was uploaded simply as a short fart recording. Soundboard users picked it up because its stuttering rhythm sounds less like a classic fart sound and more like a small engine giving up, which gave it a second life in fail compilations. It spread under the nickname wont start fart on meme boards and Discord servers, often filed next to every fart meme sound used for comedic timing. Its charm is the built-in anticlimax, making failure itself the joke.
About this sound
A sputtering fart that sounds like a dying car engine failing to turn over. Perfect for fail edits, prank videos and moments when something gives up.
This is a short, sputtering fart that stutters and dies out like an old engine that refuses to turn over. It starts with a few weak puttering bursts, loses momentum in the middle, then fizzles into silence, which makes it funnier than a normal loud fart. The faltering rhythm sells the joke of something trying hard and failing completely. Viewers hear defeat in the sound itself, so it lands perfectly as a punchline for clumsy fails, weak excuses, or plans falling apart, always getting an awkward laugh.