The sound comes from Pixar's animated film Elio, released in 2025, where a lizard repeatedly triggers the word lizard in a short comic moment. Clips of the scene spread on TikTok and other short video platforms that summer, with users copying the repetition as a spam joke and remixing it over unrelated footage. Its appeal is its simplicity, one ordinary word said with total commitment, so it keeps returning as a shorthand for brainless repetition, random humour and lizard emoji spam online still today.