The line is taken from Gex, catalogued as coming from the first game in the platform series, where short spoken quips punctuated level themes and set the tone before play began. As soundboards and short-form video grew, brief game quotes like this were lifted out of context and reused as standalone reactions. Its appeal is its specificity, naming an unpleasant industrial place in a few words, which makes it easy to apply to factories, workshops and polluted city scenes. It remains used because the delivery is instantly readable, even for viewers who never played the original game.