Good game has been a standard sign-off in competitive play for decades, with players typing GG in text chat at the end of online matches in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Short for good game, it signalled respect for an opponent regardless of the result and quickly spread across shooters, strategy games and fighting games. As voice chat, streaming and short gaming clips grew, the spoken version became a reusable reaction sound, used sincerely after close games and ironically after blowouts or obvious mismatches online.