Google Meet is Google's video conferencing service, widely used for work meetings, school lessons and interviews, especially since remote work and online classes became routine in 2020. Its settings include a speaker test so users can check output before joining, and that short sample became instantly recognisable to anyone who spent hours in calls. Clips of familiar meeting sounds later spread on TikTok, YouTube and soundboards as a shorthand for online work life, which is why this test tone still appears in parodies, reaction edits and everyday call humour.