Low quality audio has become its own style of humour online, where making a clip sound worse intentionally signals irony and low effort comedy. Unlike a clean baby laughing meme or a cat laugh meme, this human laugh circulated on soundboards and in short edits because its distorted recording feels funnier than a studio version would. Creators reuse it across gaming, reaction and shitpost videos as shorthand for finding something stupidly funny, and its rough compressed sound cuts through on small phone speakers, which helps explain why it keeps returning.