The effect comes from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon sound library, built up while the studio was producing series like The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo in the 1950s and 1960s. Editors reused the same zips, boings and whooshes across hundreds of episodes, so generations grew up hearing this exact movement cue on television reruns. When classic cartoon clips moved online, creators lifted the familiar zip for edits and memes, where it still works as instant shorthand for a character arriving and leaving at impossible speed without any visual effect needed.