Minecraft, released by Mojang in 2011, uses a library of short liquid sounds for swimming, rain and movement through water, filed in the game assets under names like splashes. As Minecraft became one of the most recorded games on YouTube and later TikTok, creators began extracting these familiar effects for use outside gameplay. The splash is now recognised instantly by players, so editors reuse it in animations, machinima and memes whenever a blocky character hits water, keeping the joke readable even without any Minecraft footage on screen.