The clip circulated as a Brazilian WhatsApp audio during the heated 2018 election period, when supporters and critics of Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traded short voice messages, memes and slogans online. Tagged bolsolula2018, it travelled through group chats rather than through television or an official campaign, which helped it feel like an insider joke among politically engaged Brazilians. Its short length and reusable phrase kept it in circulation long after the election, especially whenever a new political controversy made the idea of a national figurehead feel ripe for satire.