Charlie Brown is the put-upon hero of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, and his full-throated wail became shorthand for comic despair in the animated cartoons. Clips of the cry spread through meme pages and soundboards as a reaction to everyday fails, sitting alongside other exaggerated outbursts like Darth Vader's famous no and the classic fail sting. It endures because the sound is instantly recognisable even to people who never watched Peanuts, and its over-the-top sadness fits any small disaster, from dropped phones to lost games.