Little is publicly documented about where the Tyrese Deal recording first came from, so its life is mostly traced through soundboards and short form reposts. The clip spread the way many nonsense meme audios do, with users saving the short voice line, naming it after its most memorable words, and reusing it far from any original context. Its humor relies on Gen Z slang and random food and fish imagery associated with it in reposts, which helped it fit the current wave of absurd reaction sounds shared among friends.