Unlike a clip taken from a single film or song, this horn has no clear original source and has spread mainly as a generic sound effect shared across meme pages, editing libraries and short-form video. Its closest famous relative is the MLG air horn, which helped make sudden horn blasts a shorthand for hype, victory and ironic celebration in online videos during the 2010s. Since then, louder, longer horn sounds have been reused for pranks, reaction clips and sports-style edits, because the sound is instantly recognisable even without any visual context.