Baldi is the unsettling maths teacher from Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning, a 2018 indie horror game that parodies 1990s educational software. In the game he pursues the player through a school after wrong answers, and his flat, repetitive voice became one of its most recognisable features. Clips of that voice were shared on video platforms and soundboards, where creators looped short lines for jokes about school, tests and endless repetition. The 26-second counting loop works because it exaggerates that familiar classroom pressure into something absurd, which keeps it useful for memes long after the original game peaked.