The clip comes from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, the 2002 GameCube horror game developed by Silicon Knights with music and sound work credited to Steve Henifin. The file circulates simply under the title Cat, separate from the game's better known sanity effects and voice lines. As soundboards collected short game rips, this brief meow was shared on its own because it works without any context from the story. It remains in use for pet jokes and horror edits where a normal animal sound feels strangely out of place.