The exact recording behind this clip is undocumented, which is typical of the short reaction sounds that circulate on user-run meme soundboards, where uploaders tag clips with playful titles like this one. Its appeal is the accidental-sounding mispronunciation: 'what the fack' works as a clean-ish stand-in for the profanity it echoes, so it fits edits that want shock value without an explicit swear. It belongs to the same family of split-second shock reactions as DAMN!!! and oh my god, wow!, and it is mostly used as a quick punchline over fails, glitches and cursed images.