Text-to-speech voices became a familiar sound online as accessibility tools, voice assistants and video editing apps made synthetic narration easy to add to clips. On short-form video platforms, creators began using the flat, emotionless delivery as a stylistic choice, letting the voice read jokes, captions and fake news-style updates that felt funnier because they sounded so serious. The format spread because it is simple to produce, easy to understand and instantly recognisable, and it remains popular for memes, tutorials and ironic commentary.