This sound comes from a classroom joke rather than a famous film or viral video. According to the uploader, it was taken from an engineering class instructions video, where students kept skipping ahead to the moment the instructor said rectangle. That repeated skipping turned a single ordinary word into a shared in-joke, and the clip has since been kept as a tiny, easily replayed reaction sound. Its appeal is not fame but familiarity: the drier the delivery, the funnier the interruption feels.
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A short clip of an instructor saying rectangle in an engineering tutorial, replayed as a classroom meme when someone skips straight to that moment.
The clip is just under a second long and captures a single, flatly delivered word: rectangle. Spoken by an instructor in an engineering instructions video, it has no music, no buildup and no punchline of its own, which is exactly why it works. The deadpan tone makes the ordinary word feel oddly emphatic when it is dropped into an edit, as if the speaker is pausing the whole lesson just to name a shape. Listeners who know the classroom joke hear the skipping-ahead gag instantly, while everyone else hears a strangely serious announcement that lands because it is so mundane.