Face Raiders originated as a built-in augmented reality game for the Nintendo 3DS, released with the handheld in 2011. Players photographed faces with the system’s cameras, then battled those faces as airborne targets appeared around their real-world surroundings. Its comic expressions and energetic audio gave the game a deliberately bizarre personality. Short clips from the game later circulated independently in gaming edits and soundboards, where the laugh remains useful because it is compact, recognizable to 3DS players, and exaggerated enough to support surreal humor.