Fancade is a mobile app for making and playing small user-created games, and its built-in audio library includes short stock effects that creators trigger inside their projects. The Pad is one of those simple synth sounds, named for the soft pad tone it produces rather than a character or scene. As Fancade games and gameplay clips were shared online, individual effects from the library began circulating separately on soundboards, where people search for them by the short asset name like sound pad and reuse them outside the app.