Unlike a natural recorded scream, this clip became popular online as a deliberately obnoxious joke sound, shared on soundboards and in short prank videos where the goal is to annoy rather than frighten. Its high pitch makes it cut through phone speakers and headphones even at low volume, which helped it spread as a trolling tool in voice chats and streams. Creators keep returning to it because the reaction is predictable and immediate, and because it works without any visual context, functioning more like a classic annoying sound effect than a horror cue.