Dwight Schrute is the eccentric beet farmer and top salesman played by Rainn Wilson in the American version of The Office, which ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013. Dwight's humour comes from taking Dunder Mifflin completely seriously, so his loudest outbursts became natural reaction material online. Short clips of him yelling and screaming were shared on soundboards and in meme edits, where the sound now works as shorthand for panicked overreaction, workplace stress and dramatic disbelief at something fairly small.