Google Hangouts launched in 2013 as Google's unified messaging app, and its bright incoming message chime became instantly familiar to Android users. After Hangouts was retired in favor of Google Chat, the sound lived on through meme culture, where editors created bass-boosted remixes that exaggerate notification sounds like the Discord notification for comic effect. Shared on soundboards and in TikTok edits, this distorted version is now used as an ironic alert rather than a real message tone, much like a Discord call sound dropped into a skit.