Yoshi is the green dinosaur companion from Nintendo's Mario franchise, first introduced in Super Mario World in 1990 and later starring in his own Yoshi games. His high-pitched, cheerful vocalisations became a familiar part of Mario sound design, and short clips of them have circulated widely as meme sounds and soundboard favourites. Because the sound is so brief and instantly recognisable, creators keep returning to it for light-hearted edits, reaction videos and gaming montages where a single cute noise says more than a line of dialogue.