The clip has no confirmed film or game source and circulates as a generic user-uploaded blaster effect, built around the classic pew pew vocalisation of laser guns in cartoons and arcade shooters. Its extra length comes almost entirely from the reverberant tail, which separates it from short, dry laser zaps commonly used for rapid fire. Shared on soundboards for its exaggerated scale, it is now used less as realistic gunfire and more as a comic exaggeration, signalling that a weapon is far bigger than what is shown on screen.