The clip is credited to Frühstyxradio, the German radio comedy format, with the file title simply given as Kotzen, the German word for vomiting. Kurt is presented as the unfortunate character doing the retching, which turned a short radio gag into a reusable reaction sound. Online, the clip travelled through soundboards and German meme pages because the disgust needs no translation and no context. It remains popular for edits where a spoken reaction would be too polite and a simple gagging noise would be too short.