This sound is mainly used online as a stock comedy effect for tomato-throwing jokes and messy slapstick edits. Rather than being tied to one famous scene, it fits the long-running visual gag of audiences throwing tomatoes at a bad performance. Short splat effects like this spread through meme edits, prank videos, and mobile soundboards because they read instantly and need almost no context. It is still popular because the wet impact is clear, funny, and easy to sync with exaggerated visual hits, much like a vine boom sound in quick edits.