GoAnimate launched in 2007 as an online tool for making animated videos without drawing, and its built in sound library became familiar through years of user made cartoons shared on video sites. Stock effects like this vomit noise were reused constantly in grounded videos, comedy sketches and parody series, so viewers learned to recognise them instantly. As those videos spread into meme culture, the sound moved beyond the platform into general reaction edits, where a short cartoon retch now works as shorthand for finding something gross or unbearable.