Peppermint comes from Jack Stauber, the American musician and animator known for surreal micropop songs and strange animated shorts shared online. Nightcore edits, which speed up and raise the pitch of existing tracks, have circulated in anime and internet fan communities since the early 2000s. This version found a second life on TikTok around 2020, where short surreal edits helped older Stauber songs reach new listeners. Its brief length and distinctive pitched sound make it easy to loop and recognise in fan edits.