One Piece is a long-running Japanese anime and manga series created by Eiichiro Oda, first published in 1997 and adapted for television in 1999, and its characters are famous for their distinctive, exaggerated laughs. Clips of those laughs have circulated for years on YouTube, TikTok and meme pages, where editors reuse them to underline arrogance, surprise or comic villainy. Because the laugh is instantly recognisable to anime fans even out of context, it remains a popular shorthand for dramatic, over-the-top humour in short-form videos.