The Moto Moto meme features the suave, deep-voiced hippopotamus from the 2008 animated film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, voiced by will.i.am. His name, famously 'so nice you say it twice,' became an internet sensation due to his slow-motion entrance from a lake accompanied by the song 'Big and Chunky.' The meme typically highlights Moto Moto's exaggerated masculinity and confidence, often referred to as 'rizz' in modern internet slang. It gained massive popularity on platforms like TikTok and YouTube in late 2018 and early 2019, where creators used the template to celebrate anything large-scale, 'chunky,' or ironically attractive.