Kirby is Nintendo's pink hero from the Kirby game series, and in the Kirby anime he communicates mostly by repeating the word poyo. Fans have long clipped that high, childlike vocal for remixes and edits. The distorted variant takes the familiar line and crushes it with clipping and bass, turning a cute catchphrase into a meme sound for glitch jokes and reaction videos. Its popularity comes from instant recognition, as even a fraction of a second signals Kirby before the distortion twists it into something deliberately wrong and funny.