Sergio Moro rose to national fame as the federal judge behind many Operation Lava Jato cases, the vast corruption investigation that reshaped Brazilian politics and helped imprison former president Lula. Clips of Moro speaking in interviews, hearings and speeches were widely remixed on WhatsApp and social media, where his pronunciation of corrupção as copção became a running joke. Brazilian users pair it with other Lula era memes such as Faz o L, keeping the clip alive whenever corruption returns to the news.