Loituma gained great popularity in 2006 when the Loituma Girl (also known as Leekspin), a looped flash animation of an anime girl Orihime Inoue from the Bleach series twirling a leek, set to a scat singing section of "Ievan polkka" from Loituma's 1995 debut album Things of Beauty, was posted in Russian LiveJournal.
In 2006, Loituma became well-known for the Loituma Girl (also known as Leekspin), a looped flash animation of an anime girl Orihime Inoue from Bleach twirling a leek and set to "Ievan polkka" from Loituma's 1995 debut album Things of Beauty, which was posted on Russian LiveJournal.