Five Nights at Freddy's 2, released in 2014, is the second entry in Scott Cawthon's survival horror series, in which players monitor animatronic characters through security cameras and must survive night shifts. Its jumpscares became one of the series' defining moments, and clips of players reacting to them spread widely through gameplay videos and compilations. Because the scream is short, loud and instantly recognisable to horror fans, it moved beyond the game onto soundboards and into memes, edits and reaction videos, where it still works as a quick shorthand for a sudden scare.