Meg Griffin is a recurring character from the animated TV series Family Guy, where she is often written as the target of jokes and dismissal inside the Griffin family. That context helped clips of her crying become useful online as a shorthand for pathetic, ignored or unfairly mocked moments. The sound keeps showing up in short meme edits, reaction posts and compilations because it communicates cartoon misery in seconds. It is often used in the same kind of sad reaction space as the spongebob sad song.