The drink sound comes from Minecraft, the sandbox game released by Mojang in 2011, where players drink potions, water bottles and milk to heal, gain effects or remove them. Its exaggerated gulps were clipped from gameplay and spread through YouTube, TikTok and gaming edits as a shorthand for chugging anything in real life. Because millions recognise the noise from survival gameplay, creators still use it whenever a drink is meant to feel like an instant power up or cure.