The Wide Putin meme pairs an absurdly stretched, wide-aspect photo of Vladimir Putin walking with Kevin MacLeod's 2009 royalty-free track Sneaky Snitch. The edit style took off around 2020 and 2021, when creators on YouTube and TikTok began stretching any character, animal or object horizontally and walking it across the frame to the same sneaky tune. The template proved endlessly reusable: swap the image, keep the walk and the music, and the joke lands. Years later the audio alone still signals a ridiculous entrance, which is why the full meme track remains a staple of meme soundboards.