Samsung televisions from around 2010 played a short startup chime when they were switched on, part of the brand's move toward a cleaner, more modern sound for its flat-screen range. Because millions of households owned these sets, the tone became instantly recognisable even without the picture, and it was later ripped and shared on soundboards by people recreating old living-room moments. Today it survives mainly as a nostalgia trigger, used in videos that want to place a scene in the early 2010s without a single word of explanation.