Robert Baratheon is the King of the Seven Kingdoms in HBO's Game of Thrones, which first aired in 2011, and Mark Addy played him as a loud, jovial and larger-than-life ruler. His hearty laugh became one of the character's most recognisable traits, capturing his love of feasts, stories and bawdy humour. As clips from the show spread online, the laugh was lifted out of context and reused as a reaction sound for moments of triumph, mockery and pure amusement, and it remains popular because it instantly signals that something is funny on a grand, kingly scale.