Zoinks comes from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, the animated series that debuted in 1969, where it became the signature exclamation of Shaggy Rogers whenever a ghost or monster appeared. Decades later the line was lifted into short meme edits, sped up and paired with modern reaction slang like OMFG. That combination of a familiar cartoon voice and an oh my god style panic made it easy to reuse out of context, so it now circulates in sped up soundboard clips, TikTok edits and reaction videos whenever a reveal feels absurdly alarming.
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A sped up voice clip of Shaggy's Zoinks followed by an OMFG reaction, used for shocked, panicked or over the top surprised moments in memes and edits.
This is a very short, high pitched sped up clip built around the word Zoinks, Shaggy's classic panicked catchphrase from Scooby-Doo, pushed into a frantic OMFG reaction. The speeding up makes the voice squeaky, breathless and cartoonish, like someone has just seen something they cannot process. It lasts only a couple of seconds, so the shock lands instantly with no build up. Viewers hear it as pure alarm mixed with comedy, the sound of a character realising the monster is real, the plan has failed, or the situation is far worse than expected.