The melody comes from Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2, where the Funeral March forms its slow third movement, written in the late 1830s and long associated with real funeral processions. Because the tune is so widely recognised, filmmakers and animators borrowed it for decades to signal death in a way audiences would grasp instantly, even in comedy. That familiarity carried over to online video, where creators now pair the organ arrangement with failed stunts, lost games and exaggerated goodbyes, keeping a nineteenth-century march alive as a visual shorthand for mock mourning.