The chant comes from 'Cotton Eye Joe' by the Swedish band Rednex, released in 1994, where the original chorus asks where Cotton-Eye Joe came from and went. In 2023 the pitched-up 'where did you come from' line began sounding like 'gedagedigedago' in sped-up remixes shared across TikTok, and the meme song exploded in dance challenges and anime edits. Fans now layer it over fast-cut montages, memes and cartoon clips, and its pure nonsense energy keeps it in rotation long after the trend peaked.