Bag Raiders, an Australian electronic duo, released Shooting Stars in 2009, and the track became a global internet meme in 2017. Videos showed people, animals and objects falling, jumping or being thrown, edited so the fall looked like floating through space while the synth melody played. The format spread across social media because it was easy to copy and worked with almost any clumsy clip. It remains popular as shorthand for a dramatic, weightless fall, especially in short fail compilations and reaction edits.
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The Shooting Stars meme sound effect from Bag Raiders, a short synth snippet used in falling and fail edits where someone dramatically drops out of frame.
This short clip captures the bright, instantly recognisable opening synth riff from Bag Raiders' Shooting Stars, the track at the heart of the 2017 falling meme. It starts with a clean, bouncy electronic melody that feels weightless and slightly dreamy, before cutting off abruptly after just a few seconds. That sudden, upbeat lift is what makes it work in edits: it turns an ordinary trip, jump or fall into a slow-motion, almost graceful moment, as if the person is floating through space. Viewers recognise it immediately and expect something absurd or clumsy to follow, which gives even a simple clip a comic payoff.
