The sound is tied to Fuze, an operator from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege by Ubisoft. His Cluster Charge gadget became widely recognizable among players because it warns defenders that a barrage is about to blast through a surface. Outside normal gameplay, the audio spread through clips, montages, and short meme edits as a shorthand for incoming destruction. It still gets used because even people who do not play Siege can understand the joke: once this sound starts, something nearby is about to become very unsafe.