The sound comes from Minecraft, the sandbox game developed by Mojang and fully released in 2011, where raids send waves of illagers to attack a village after a player enters with the Bad Omen effect. Raids were introduced in the 2019 Village and Pillage update, and the event is called shugeki in the Japanese version. Clips of the cue spread through gaming videos and meme edits because the audio alone signals an incoming fight, so creators now borrow it for ambush jokes far beyond actual Minecraft gameplay.