Minecraft, Mojang's block-building survival game first released in 2011, features the skeleton as one of its earliest hostile mobs, a bony archer that spawns in darkness and attacks players with arrows. Its rattling, hollow audio has become instantly recognisable to millions of players who spent nights hiding from it or fighting it underground. As Minecraft clips spread across YouTube, TikTok and streaming, the skeleton's sound became shorthand for danger, surprise and classic survival gameplay, which is why editors still reach for it in gaming videos today.