Midnight Club Los Angeles was released by Rockstar in 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and its phone interface used this alert for incoming texts during races and free roam. Players later ripped the clean UI sounds for soundboards and video edits, where it joined other game alerts like the GTA V notification in collections of short message tones. It stays popular because it is unmistakably a phone alert but carries the specific nostalgia of a beloved street racing game, rather than sounding like a generic system beep from a real phone.