Five Nights at Freddy's began as an indie horror game in 2014 and built a huge fan community around its animatronic characters, security camera gameplay and sudden jump scares. Short error and interface tones linked to the series spread through fan games, soundboards and meme edits because they instantly signal a malfunctioning system. Editors keep using this chime as shorthand for failure, corruption or a scare about to happen, since even viewers who have not played the games understand its warning tone from countless videos, streams and remixes shared online.