Pou launched in 2012 as a mobile virtual pet game built around a simple brown alien that players feed, wash and dress. Its plain bleeps and reactions later became easy material for meme edits, especially in Spanish-speaking communities searching for sonido de pou. Saturadisimo versions push that audio into clipping distortion, following the wider earrape and bass-boosted joke format that spread through YouTube and short video apps. The clip stays popular because the pet still reads as cute and innocent, even when the sound suggests total meltdown.