Terence is the large, silent Big Brother Bird from Rovio's Angry Birds series, and Angry Birds Space launched in 2012 with redesigned space versions of the flock. Clips of their short in-game ability effects were later ripped and shared on soundboards and in video edits, where duration is an advantage. This space variant circulated among gaming and meme editors who needed an instant activation cue without dialogue or music. It remains in use because it is recognisable to players, easy to layer over footage, and over before it can distract from the visual gag.