Cartoon sounds like these come from the long tradition of slapstick animation, where exaggerated squeaks, springs and impacts were used to make physical comedy read instantly without dialogue. Online, short bundles of those effects have become a staple of meme edits, reaction videos and soundboards because they are instantly recognisable even without any visual context. Creators reuse them to signal that a moment is meant as a joke, which is why the same playful style keeps appearing in new clips years after classic cartoons made it familiar.