The Stonks meme emerged on Facebook meme pages in 2019, built around Meme Man, a crudely rendered 3D head in a suit posed before a rising stock chart with the word stocks deliberately misspelled. It became shorthand for mocking dubious financial brilliance and spread through Reddit, Twitter and TikTok, where short audio stings turned it into a reaction sound. This upload comes from a user-generated soundboard rather than any official source. It is often used interchangeably with the classic victory sting and the mission passed jingle in ironic meme edits.