The Vine boom emerged from short-form video culture in the mid-2010s, when Vine editors began pairing punchlines with an exaggerated, bass-boosted explosion sound. After Vine shut down in 2017, the boom outlived the app and became a universal meme punctuation mark across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram edits. Alongside clips like Bruh and other classic Vine meme sounds, it is now one of the most recognisable reaction effects online, still dropped into fails, roasts and plot-twist edits for instant dramatic emphasis.