The sound comes from Poker Night at the Inventory, Telltale Games' poker crossover in which players face characters from other games and films around a single table. Whenever the blinds go up, the game plays this short descending chime as a clear in-game notification, warning everyone that the minimum bet has risen. Poker streamers and editors later lifted the cue for videos and streams, where it works as a simple ding sound effect for raising stakes, and it remains useful because it is instantly understood even by viewers who never played the original game.