With no clear source work attached to it, Lightning Eyes spread the way most meme audio does: creators on short-form video platforms picked up the crackling-electric sound for dramatic eye close-ups and started tagging it as lightning eyes. The eighteen-second length makes it easy to stretch across a slow zoom or cut to a punchline, and it now shows up in anime edits, gaming montages and villain-reveal memes. It works because the sound reads instantly as gathering power, a cue audiences recognize from countless action scenes.