Dipsters come from My Singing Monsters, the music-building game released by Big Blue Bubble in 2012, where players collect singing creatures to build a song island by island. Each Dipster lives underground and surfaces briefly to sing one pitched dip note, with different Dipsters covering different notes of a scale. Clips of the individual notes spread to soundboards and editing communities because they are short, musical and easy to layer, letting creators recreate melodies or add a familiar game reference to short videos and streams.