The pigeon scream belongs to a wave of AI generated animal clips shared online, where familiar pets and birds are given wildly human reactions they would never make in real life. Its exact creator and first upload are not clearly documented, so it spread mainly through reposts, soundboards and short video edits rather than a single famous scene. People kept reusing it because a calm, everyday bird erupting into a long scream is instantly readable as panic, even with the sound off in a caption or thumbnail.