Doom Doot combines the Skull Trumpet meme with the classic first-person shooter franchise. Here's how it originally came about.

Here how the Doot Doot meme collided with Doom to produce the downright bizarre Doom Doot meme. Doom is a landmark video game series and its success helped make first-person shooters one of the most popular on the planet. The game is light on story and finds a lone marine stranded on Mars having to fight back against an endless wave of demons using shotguns, rocket launchers, a BFG and even his fists.

Doom's fast-paced gameplay, excellent level design and creative enemies set it apart, and it wasn't long until Doom II: Hell On Earth arrived. Doom is now a full-fledged series, with Doom 3 - which leaned into the horror aspects of the concept - appearing in 2004 and the fourth entry, simply called Doom, was released to instant acclaim in 2016. The next game, Doom Eternal, arrives in late 2019. The games have received two movie adaptations also, including 2005's Doom starring Dwayne Johnson (Hobbs & Shaw), and the upcoming Doom: Annihilation, which is unrelated to the previous film.

Over 25 years after the first game was released it feels like the franchise is more popular than ever. Even the original was revitalised with the Brutal Doom mod, which added new weapons and gore, in addition to increasing the difficulty. The series has spawned its share of memes over the years too, including the infamous "Rip and Tear!" quote, which was uttered by protagonist DoomGuy in an obscure 1990s comic tie-in. Another meme that's emerged in recent years is the Doom Doot, which needs a bit of context to explain.

It's derived from the Skull Trumpet meme, which is better known as Doot Doot. This is a poorly animated image of a skull playing the trumpet and was created using the Microsoft 3D Movie Maker in the 1990s. Doot Doot later evolved into a meme of its own and became popular on Reddit, and it reached heights of popularity when combined with Doom's Revenant. The Revenant's are demons from the games with exposed skulls, lanky frames, and a rocket launcher on each shoulder.

Doom's publisher Bethesda previously embraced the popularity of "Rip and Tear!" and they did it again with the Doot Doot meme. They uploaded the official soundtrack of the 2016 game to YouTube, which features an easter egg of a Revenant playing the trumpet. An easter egg of the Revenant playing trumpet was also hidden in official artwork for the game. They're set to take their love for Doot Doot even further with Doom Eternal, which includes a pre-order skin that features a Revenant with two trumpets mounted on its shoulders instead of rocket launchers.

The whole Doom Doot meme is quite silly and pointless - but that's kind of what's charming about it too. Given that Doom never takes itself very seriously anyway, it's an easy joke to get onboard with.

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