Balloon Boy is a character from Five Nights at Freddy's 2, released in 2014, and his laugh became one of the most recognizable audio cues in the series. Players connect it with moments when he appears and disrupts the night, so the sound spread into FNAF compilations, reaction edits, and horror memes. It is still used because the laugh is short, instantly identifiable to fans, and easy to place before a scare, a failure, or a troll moment. Fans often pair it with the fnaf 2 scream in game montages.