The uploader credits a YouTube video as the source of this 37-second earthquake clip, shared on a user-generated soundboard where short meme audios get clipped, renamed and passed around. Low-fidelity disaster sounds like this one thrive in meme culture because the muddy, compressed audio reads as raw and unfiltered, which makes over-the-top destruction jokes land harder. Earthquake rumbles in particular are a staple of prank edits, fake news spoofs and gaming fail compilations, where the rumble signals that something is about to go spectacularly wrong.