Minecraft, Mojang's sandbox building game first released in 2011, includes pigs as common passive mobs that wander villages and plains, and the short squeal heard here is the game's audio cue for a pig dying. Clips of that moment circulated through gameplay videos, streams and soundboard sites, where editors began reusing it far beyond Minecraft itself. Its appeal lies in its instant recognisability to players and its cartoonish tone, which lets it work as a light, non-serious death joke in memes and short videos.