The sound comes from Undertale, the 2015 role-playing game by Toby Fox, where Sans summons skull-shaped Gaster Blasters during his boss battle. Their charging noise signals a beam attack is about to fire, and players quickly learned to associate it with an almost impossible fight. Clips of the battle, remixes, and animations spread the effect across YouTube and TikTok, where creators began using it outside the game. It remains popular because that short charge instantly reads as danger, power, and a joke about to hit hard.