Oggy comes from Oggy and the Cockroaches, the French animated comedy series that first aired in 1998, built around a blue cat constantly outwitted at home. The show uses very little dialogue, so its screams, sobs and crashes carry most of the humour. Short clips of Oggy crying and screaming were later ripped and shared on soundboards and in meme edits, where the exaggerated cartoon emotion works even without the original scene. That wordless delivery is why the sound travels easily across languages and still fits new jokes.