The sound comes from Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?), a song by Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan from the early 2000s. Originally a serious ballad about loss and regret, its dramatic chorus became a favourite for short-form video edits, where creators reuse its emotional peak to exaggerate everyday setbacks. Because the melody is instantly recognisable to millennial and Gen Z audiences who grew up with pop-punk, it still works as shorthand for heartbreak, irony and overreaction in memes, reaction videos and TikTok-style edits today.