The line comes from Portal, Valve's 2007 puzzle game, where Aperture Science sentry turrets guard test chambers and speak in a sweet synthetic voice voiced by Ellen McLain. Turrets call out phrases like who's there when they detect the player, then open fire seconds later. Clips of those lines spread through gaming videos, machinima and soundboards in the late 2000s and stayed popular because the contrast between the innocent delivery and the lethal intent is instantly recognisable, even to viewers who never played Portal.