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.
About this sound
Yoshi lick sound effect loop from Super Mario games, the wet tongue slap repeated over and over. People use it for silly, gross and cute meme edits.
This is Yoshi extending his tongue with a quick, wet licking sound, looped seamlessly for about seventeen seconds. The noise is a soft slap and gulp, instantly recognisable from the way Yoshi grabs fruit, enemies and items in Mario games. On its own it is cute and a little gross, and the repetition makes it funnier and more unsettling the longer it plays. Viewers expect something silly to get licked, eaten or dragged in, so the loop builds comic tension before a payoff or cut.