The clip comes from Vinesauce, the long-running livestream collective fronted by Vinny, whose streams have produced countless meme sounds over the years. Tom's scream itself is one of the most recognisable cartoon reactions in animation history, voiced originally in the Tom and Jerry shorts and reused across decades of cartoons. Streamers imitating it has become its own gag, and this clean recording circulates on soundboards as a quick reaction clip for gaming fails, jumpscares and slapstick compilations.