Five Nights at Freddy's, the indie horror game series that began in 2014, built its reputation on sudden animatronic jumpscares that interrupt quiet surveillance gameplay. Fans have since recreated and remastered those moments with sharper audio, sharing them on soundboards and in edited videos where the scare can be reused outside the game itself. Because the scream is instantly recognisable to players, it works even without context, which is why it keeps appearing in horror compilations, prank edits and reaction content years after the original games.