Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a 2004 role-playing game developed by Troika Games, based on White Wolf's tabletop world of vampires, clans and hidden politics. The Malkavians are one of its playable clans, cursed with madness and strange insight, and their dialogue is famously cryptic, fourth-wall-breaking and full of voices other characters cannot hear. Fans later clipped those whispered lines into ASMR-style compilations, and the sound endures because it instantly signals that a character knows too much, sees too much, or is no longer quite sane.