Pingas originated in the 1993 animated series Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, where Dr Robotnik scolds his henchmen with the line Snooping as usual I see. Online editors in the mid 2000s clipped the middle of that sentence and looped it in YouTube Poop videos, where the accidental rude sounding word became a running gag. Remixes, Sparta edits and soundboard shares kept it circulating long after the show ended, cementing it as one of the earliest Sonic meme sounds still quoted today.