The song was also used in the American television series Las Vegas (episode title: New Orleans).

[3] In 2017, following the release of Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do", some commentators suggested that the song sampled "Operate".

[4][5] Some speculated that the alleged sample was a reference to a Katy Perry tweet warning people to "watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing"; George appeared in the Mean Girls scene which featured the Peaches song.

[6] For a time, music annotation website Genius listed "Operate" as being sampled in the Swift single.

[4] In an article for W, Kyle Munzenrieder argued that the beat in Swift's song sounded similar but not the same, since it was "cleaner and more toned down".