Taps was arranged in the United States in 1862 during the Civil War and became the standard bugle call for lights out, military funerals, and memorial ceremonies. Its simple melody uses only the notes a bugle can naturally produce, which is why it feels so plain and final. Online, editors borrowed that finality for jokes, laying the call over game knockouts, deleted files, and characters who will not be returning, turning a real mark of respect into a shared shorthand for someone being completely gone.