Team Fortress 2 is Valve's team-based multiplayer shooter, and the Spy is one of its nine playable classes, known for disguises, backstabs, and a theatrical French accent. His falling scream comes from the game's voice lines for taking a long drop, and players began pulling it from matches and soundboards to reuse in their own videos. Because the sound is instantly recognisable to TF2 fans yet funny on its own, it kept circulating in gaming montages, fail compilations, and short-form edits long after the game became a classic.