Bass boosting became a popular editing joke on YouTube, TikTok and soundboards as creators deliberately overloaded tracks until they distorted. Instead of a clean remix, the humour comes from ruining the fidelity on purpose and letting the low end dominate everything else. Short clips like this one were shared as standalone effects so editors could drag them into any video without processing audio themselves. It remains a staple alongside the vine boom sound for ironic edits, speaker test jokes and moments that need to sound far bigger than they look.