Jacket is the silent protagonist of Hotline Miami, the 2012 top-down action game by Dennaton Games known for its fast, brutal one-hit combat and neon 1980s Miami setting. In that context stunned moments are brief but memorable, because a single mistake ends a run. Clips isolating those hit and daze sounds later circulated on soundboards and in meme edits detached from gameplay, where the effect became shorthand for being knocked senseless, caught off guard or temporarily out of the fight in any video.