Yoshi is Nintendo's green dinosaur companion from the Super Mario series, introduced in Super Mario World in 1990. His long tongue attack became one of his defining moves in platformers and spin-offs like Yoshi's Island and Super Smash Bros. Short clips of the lick sound were ripped from the games and shared on soundboards and video platforms, where editors looped them for comic effect. The loop format keeps it popular for memes, streams and edits long after the original games.