Taco Bell has used its bright synth bell in advertising since 2000, making the short chime widely recognisable in the United States. Around 2020, online creators began pairing that bell with the familiar Windows XP shutdown sound, using the combination as a comic marker for slapstick deaths and abrupt endings. The pairing works because both sounds signal a neat, polite close, even when the scene is chaotic. Shared widely as a short meme clip, it has remained in use for edits that need a soft, funny full stop.