Little is documented about where the wyywyy clip first came from, so its life online is mostly as a shared reaction sound passed between meme edits and soundboards. The nonsense name matches the noise itself, making it easy to search for once someone has heard it in a video. It survives because the whine is flexible, creators can use it for genuine sadness played for laughs, for a petulant character, or for their own voiceover when something small goes wrong and they want the reaction to feel bigger than the problem.