Unexpected John Cena

The meme was born and inspired by numerous prank calls done on Norfolk, Virginia radio station WNVZ's Z Morning Zoo show in 2012.

[5][4] Unexpected Cena videos were first uploaded to sites such as YouTube, Vine and Twitter and became popular around the summer of 2015,[7][6] leading to coverage of the meme in publications such as Sports Illustrated[6] and Uproxx.

[10] Films such as Spider-Man, the Star Wars franchise, Ghostbusters, Titanic, Inside Out, television series such as Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z, Breaking Bad and even footage of other WWE/AEW wrestling matches have been used to make the articles.

[2] John Cena has expressed gratitude for the online phenomenon in interviews,[7][12] feeling proud for at least being "accepted" by others as a popular culture figure.

This time, however, the Z Morning Zoo host announcing his name is replaced with Jim Ross doing so, and the volume of the song is toned down, which a writer felt did not get the humor of the meme.

[4] On June 29, 2016, Cena and Cricket Wireless brought the meme and article to life by surprising many of his fans during a real audition, featuring Bo Dallas and Summer Rae.

So when pop culture is kind enough to let you in, exploit you, and in a lot of cases make fun of you, and you're just gonna be the vehicle to push this new gag, I totally embrace it.