Casper the Friendly Ghost was created in the late 1930s and became widely known through Harvey Comics and Famous Studios animated shorts in the 1940s and 1950s. Unlike other ghosts, his defining trait has always been kindness and his search for companionship, later renewed for a new generation by the 1995 live action film. That premise made clips about friendship easy to share out of context, and this short excerpt now circulates on soundboards as a nostalgic shorthand for lonely characters finally being accepted.