Tootfinder

Theory: the rise of YouTube gamers has kind of ruined new games, especially sequels.
Nintendo saw countless hours of YouTubers horsing around in Breath of the Wild, so they made a sequel built entirely about horsing around in the same world with a bunch of goofy sandbox toys, rather than giving us a proper adventure/exploration/puzzle game.
Team Cherry saw YouTubers get incredibly skilled at precision combat in Hollow Knight, so they made Silksong all about precision…

I think I know why "sad trombone" (and any melody that descends like that) is sad .
I was awake listening to my wife snore and, as her breath slowed down (she must have been going into a deeper sleep phase), the pitch of the snore got lower and lower.
What if we instinctively associate decreasing pitch with person's breath slowing down, eventually to stop?