Diablo 2, released by Blizzard in 2000, is an action role-playing game where players constantly drink red health potions and blue mana potions to survive its dungeons, and this short gulp is the audio cue tied to that action. As gameplay clips, streams, and retro gaming memes spread online, the sound became shorthand for healing or bouncing back, separate from the game itself. It remains popular because it is instantly recognisable to longtime players and immediately understandable even to viewers who never played Diablo 2.