The 'Merida's Scottish Slang' meme primarily stems from the character's appearance in the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet, where she speaks in a dialect so thick that the other Disney princesses cannot understand her. The joke plays on the trope of heavy Scottish accents being incomprehensible to outsiders, often featuring Merida delivering a passionate, phonetic rant while her peers look on in confusion. It has become a staple for representing situations where someone is talking but nobody has any clue what they are saying, or for celebrating the unique complexity of the Scots language in the most chaotic and humorous way possible.