Google Meet is Google's video-conferencing platform, and like every chat app it plays a short tone when a new message lands — the cue every meeting participant hears when the side chat lights up. As remote work and online classes made Meet a daily fixture from 2020 onward, the chime became a shared cultural shorthand for meeting chaos: the private joke typed mid-call, the question nobody wants to answer aloud. Creators now sample it to signal that something just happened off-camera, borrowing its instant recognisability.