 David D. of the blog Uproxx considered it to be the highest degree of rickrolling given how "incredibly obnoxious" the theme song is when it is played out of nowhere during a clip, but also called it a knock-off of the parts in "WWE Slam City" where John Cena and his theme song are also sometimes presented at an unexpected moment.The meme has also been labeled in the same veins as those of "Dragon Ball Z", "Shrek" and Randy Orton's "["RKO"] from outta nowhere" Vines.Unexpected Cena videos were first uploaded to sites such as YouTube, Vine and Twitter and became popular around the summer of 2015, leading to coverage of the meme in publications such as "Sports Illustrated" and Uproxx.