The boing is closely associated with Nintendo's Super Mario platform games, where springs, bounce pads and trampolines launch Mario high into the air with a cartoon sound. As gameplay clips, speedruns and meme edits spread online, the short bounce became shorthand for anything springy, sudden or silly, even outside Mario videos. Its brevity makes it easy to drop into TikTok edits, YouTube shorts and reaction videos, and because Mario remains one of the most recognisable game characters, the sound still reads instantly decades after the series first became popular.