GoAnimate, later renamed Vyond, was a popular online tool for making short animated videos with text-to-speech voices, and its exaggerated sound effects became a staple of user-made comedy clips shared on YouTube and meme pages. The barf noise circulated separately as a downloadable soundboard clip, detached from any single video, because creators wanted a quick, recognisable gag for disgust. It remains in use because it is short, instantly understood without dialogue, and fits the fast, reaction-driven style of modern short-form edits.