L'âne Trotro is a French animated preschool series based on the picture books by Bénédicte Guettier, first broadcast in France in 2004 and centred on Trotro, a small grey donkey discovering everyday life with his family and friends. The show was made for very young children, with short, gentle stories and a distinctive cheerful style that made its characters easy to remember. Years later, short clips began circulating online among French-speaking viewers who had watched it as children, and the sound is now reused mainly as a nostalgic cue in memes, compilations and light-hearted reaction edits.