The sound draws on the jumpscare tradition of Five Nights at Freddy's, the horror game series created by Scott Cawthon in 2014, where animatronic characters lunge at the player with a loud scream. Fan made variants named for characters like Soefthemouse circulated on soundboards and in short video edits, detached from gameplay and reused as a standalone scare effect. Its extreme brevity made it easy to insert into memes, horror compilations and reaction videos, where the sudden noise alone signals a jumpscare even without the original game footage.