Mangle first appeared in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 as a tangled, dismantled animatronic, and later returned in Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, the mobile augmented reality game released in 2019. In AR, Mangle crawls and lunges at the player through the phone camera, triggering this screech when the defence fails. Clips of the attack spread through YouTube gameplay, TikTok edits and soundboards alongside the classic FNAF jumpscare scream, and fans still reuse Mangle's version for its more glitchy, metallic sound compared to the other animatronics.