Bass-boosted edits became a staple of short-form meme culture because exaggerating the low end turns an ordinary moment into a joke, and sleep sounds were a fit for that treatment. Creators use this kind of clip to signal exhaustion, boredom, or a character checking out of a scene, often pairing it with slow zooms, drooping eyes, or a cut to black. Like other snoring sounds, it circulates as a reaction clip rather than as a quote from a single show or film, which helps explain why it keeps appearing in new edits years after the bass-boosted style first spread online.