The clip comes from the Geometry Dash community, where player Mefewe recorded himself screaming after dying at 98% during a wave section, as noted in the original upload description. Moments like that are a rite of passage in the game's hardest levels, and fans began passing the raw scream around as a shorthand for soul-crushing near misses. It sits alongside other gaming fail sounds like the FNAF jumpscare scream and the Roblox oof, and it still shows up in rage compilations and fail edits years after it first circulated.