Alex Consani built a large TikTok following for deadpan, funny videos alongside a modelling career, and short lines from those clips are often lifted as reaction sounds. Gag it draws on older queer and drag slang where gagged means overwhelmed or at a loss for words, which helped the phrase travel beyond fashion circles. Fans began cutting the moment into edits, duets and compilations, using it whenever a look, joke or reveal deserved an exaggerated stunned response. Its brevity and recognisable delivery keep it circulating as shorthand for being floored.