The clip comes from German television featuring Karin Ritter, head of the Ritter family known from the long running documentary series about their everyday life in Köthen. Short shouted lines from the show have circulated for years in German meme culture, shared as soundboard buttons and reaction clips far outside the original episodes. Die Schweine survives because the insult is understood even by non German speakers from the tone alone, making it a universal shorthand for angry disbelief that fits almost any clip of bad behavior.