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"Moka Chan Oshiete Kureta Irona Mita" / Horse Speaking Japanese

2023viral videoclassic

Published October 22, 2026

A July 2023 animated TikTok of Sanrio's Cinnamoroll chirping the Japanese phrase "Moka Chan Oshiete Kureta Irona Mita" sat quietly for five months before a horse interview clip paired with the audio exploded in December 2023. By mid-December, TikTokers were slapping the sound onto cats, other animals and parody drawings as if each one were fluently speaking Japanese.

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Overview

"Moka Chan Oshiete Kureta Irona Mita" is a TikTok audio clip pulled from an animated Cinnamoroll video, in which the Sanrio puppy chatters about trying a filter her friend Moka recommended1. The clip became a reusable sound tag that creators lip-sync onto animals, with the point being that the animal appears to be speaking perfectly cadenced Japanese2.

Most edits use the full audio over a single uncut shot of a horse, cat or other pet whose mouth movements line up loosely with the syllables2. The joke works because the sound carries a sweet, enthusiastic chipmunk-pitched delivery that clashes with whatever large or deadpan animal is on screen, and the caption typically plays along by presenting a fake English translation of what the creature is "saying"3.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (original audio) / TikTok (viral spread via horse video)
Creator
@47mon_sanrio
Date
2023

On July 3, 2023, TikTok user @47mon_sanrio uploaded an animated short of Cinnamoroll holding a phone and gushing about social media filters, opening with the line "Moka Chan Oshiete Kureta Irona Mita"1. Over roughly six months the clip picked up more than 2.6 million plays and 421,000 likes before anyone used it as a meme template1.

The audio sat as a cute Sanrio in-joke until a horse interview video repurposed it in early December 20234. @47mon_sanrio animated and posted the source video; the broader meme format emerged five months later when another creator attached that audio to real-world footage2.

How It Spread

On December 6, 2023, TikTok user @kli.ilk posted a clip of a horse being interviewed with the Cinnamoroll audio layered over its chewing mouth, as if the horse were giving a monologue in Japanese2. The post pulled roughly 29 million plays and 5 million likes in its first week, which turned the previously obscure Sanrio audio into a template2.

Once the horse edit went viral, the sound spread to cat videos and other animal content on TikTok, where creators used it as a copypasta soundtrack with fake translated captions3. On December 12, 2023, TikTok user @ahaha.its.april drew a My Little Pony style illustration of the viral horse, which picked up about 11,700 plays and 275 likes within three days5.

Further edits in the following weeks ran the audio over a frog6, a cat lip-syncing with teeth bared7 and anime clips8, keeping the format alive through December 2023.

Timeline

2023-07-03

@47mon_sanrio uploads the animated Cinnamoroll video that introduces the "Moka Chan Oshiete Kureta Irona Mita" audio[1].

2023-12-06

@kli.ilk pairs the audio with a horse interview clip, which hits 29 million plays in a week[2].

2023-12-12

@ahaha.its.april posts a My Little Pony style parody drawing of the viral horse[5].

2023-12

The audio spreads across TikTok onto cats, frogs and anime edits with invented English subtitles[3].

How to Use This Meme

To use the format, creators typically overlay the Cinnamoroll audio on footage of an animal whose mouth is moving, with the goal of making it look like the animal is fluently delivering the Japanese line. Common conventions include adding English subtitles that invent a translation of whatever the creature is supposedly saying, or framing the shot like a news interview, as in the viral horse edit2.

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