World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment's long-running online role-playing game launched in 2004, includes gnomes as a small, inventive playable race with their own voice lines and emotes. The female gnome laugh is one of those in-game character sounds, lifted by players and shared on soundboards and in gameplay videos. Its tiny size and unmistakable high-pitched tone make it easy to reuse as a quick reaction, which is why it continues to appear in gaming streams, edits and meme compilations long after its original in-game use.