Darkest Dungeon is a gothic roguelike dungeon crawler built around stress, permadeath and a famously grim narrator who comments on the party's fortunes. Short narrator lines from the game became popular in gameplay videos and streams because they sound like doom itself, and Precipice fits that pattern perfectly. Editors began lifting it for fails, boss fights and dark jokes, where a few seconds of narration could make an ordinary clip feel fateful. It endures because the voice is instantly recognisable to players and needs no explanation to set a bleak tone.