Minions first appeared in Illumination's Despicable Me in 2010, created as Gru's small yellow henchmen and voiced largely by director Pierre Coffin. Their gibberish language, a mix of words and sounds from several languages, made short vocal reactions easy to clip and share. As Minions grew into a standalone franchise in 2015, their gasps, laughs and exclamations spread across meme edits and soundboards. This surprised clip survives because the reaction is instantly understood even without dialogue or the original movie scene playing.