Ghostface first appeared in the Scream film franchise in 1996, as the masked identity adopted by the killers and defined by a distorted phone voice. The character later crossed into games, most notably as a playable killer in Dead by Daylight, which helped introduce the voice and mask to a new gaming audience. Short clips from those appearances circulate as meme sounds on social media, where the recognisable delivery is reused for horror parodies, reaction edits and playful scare moments far beyond the original films.