No confirmed source is attached to this short clip, so its life online is defined by how creators reuse the IRS who line as a meme reaction. The joke relies on a shared understanding that the IRS is the US tax authority everyone is expected to take seriously, which makes pretending not to recognize it instantly funny. It circulates in short form edits around tax season, bills, and adulting stress, where the tiny runtime makes it easy to loop, layer over reaction faces, and drop into unrelated money problems.