Sans is a skeleton character from Undertale, the 2015 role-playing game created by Toby Fox, where most characters speak through short looping text sounds rather than voiced dialogue. His version became the most recognisable because of his popularity, comic timing and the contrast between his casual jokes and later serious scenes. Fans extracted the blip and reused it in fan games, animations and meme edits, typing new lines over it so audiences would hear them as Sans. It remains a shorthand for his personality online.