Jumpscare audio became a signature of the Five Nights at Freddy's series, where quiet surveillance gameplay is broken by a screaming animatronic filling the screen. Fan games and edits in the same style, including FNAWP, adopted that same short scream format for their own scares. Clips like the FNAF Jumpscare Scream spread widely through horror gameplay videos, meme edits and soundboards because the effect works even without the original scene. It remains popular as a reusable scare cue that anyone instantly recognises from its timing and distortion.