REPO is a cooperative horror game released in 2025 in which players scavenge valuable objects from haunted locations while avoiding dangerous monsters, and the Chef is one of its unsettling kitchen-themed creatures. Clips of its encounters spread through gameplay videos, streams and short-form edits, where the monster's distinctive noises became a shorthand for sudden danger. Fans now reuse the sound outside the game as a reaction clip, because it is instantly recognisable to players and still funny and startling to viewers who have never played REPO.