The Minions first appeared in Illumination's Despicable Me in 2010, created as Gru's clumsy yellow helpers who speak a mix of gibberish, Spanish and English. Banana became their most quoted obsession because of their childlike love of fruit, repeated across the films and the 2015 Minions spin-off. Clips of their crying, laughing and chanting were later cut into short soundboard and meme sounds. This crying banana version spread on social video apps as a reusable reaction, kept alive by how instantly recognizable the voices are even without any picture.