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Where one tap turns a Vine line into a personality transplant.
means A device or app that plays back short pre-recorded sounds or clips at the press of a button — literally, or in meme form, a collection of audio clips (often from shows, movies, or internet culture) people trigger to react, troll, or quote.
from Literally, the physical 'sound board' or 'sounding board' — a resonant panel behind a pulpit or under a piano's strings that projects and amplifies sound — goes back centuries in acoustics and architecture. From there it extended to the mixing desk in a recording studio, the control panel a sound engineer uses to trigger and blend audio. The meme-era 'soundboard' — a grid of buttons that blast catchphrases, vines, or movie quotes — borrows that same idea of a panel you press to make noise, shrunk down from a studio console to a browser tab or app, good for turning any moment into someone else's voice.
- origin
- named after literal mixing-desk hardware from radio studios
- discord staple
- powers the bit that never, ever dies
- social hack
- outsources your comedic timing to a button
- streamer tool
- airhorn clip single-handedly ended arguments since 2015