Free Yay Sound Effect
The yay sound effect: a bunch of happy kids shouting "yaaay!" together, plus one cheerful voice and a flat, sarcastic yay. Celebrate tiny wins like huge ones.
Updated · Tested by the Facecam team
Yay
1.6 s · MP3 · 16 KB
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4 yay sound effects to download
Main take1.6 s · 16 KB
The yay sound effect: a bunch of happy kids shouting "yaaay!" together, plus one cheerful voice and a flat, sarcastic yay. Celebrate tiny wins like huge ones.
Kids2.0 s · 20 KB
A group of children cheering, for wholesome wins.
One voice1.0 s · 10 KB
One person's bright, happy 'yay!' close to the mic.
Sarcastic1.0 s · 10 KB
A flat, deadpan 'yay' for news that isn't good at all.
Where it fits
- The meeting finally ends five minutes early.
- Someone in the squad gets their first kill of the night.
- Sarcasm: the printer worked on the first try.
- Classroom slides and kids' videos, when a right answer deserves a cheer.
How we made it
“A group of happy children cheering 'yaaay' together, short and joyful”
The variations
- Kids
- “A group of children cheering 'yaaay!' happily”
- One voice
- “One young woman cheering 'yay!' happily, close microphone”
- Sarcastic
- “A man saying a flat, sarcastic, unenthusiastic 'yay', deadpan”
- Loudness
- -16.4 LUFS
- Peak
- -6.2 dBFS
Play it in Discord, OBS or Zoom
Press Use these sounds in calls, then pick Facecam Virtual Mic as your mic. Step by step: Discord, OBS and Zoom. For games, the Facecam desktop app.
- Short enough for Discord's own soundboard (5.2 s max): Server Settings → Soundboard.
More about this sound
About our version
Our take runs 1.59 seconds: a small crowd of young voices with one cheer and a quick tail-off, no music under it. Every voice is generated, so there's no real child in the recording.
The other takes: Kids (a longer, two-second cheer), One voice (a single happy "yay!" for when a crowd is too much) and Sarcastic, one man's flat, unenthusiastic yay for the news that the meeting moved to Friday at 5.
It's lighter than applause and shorter than a crowd cheer, which is why it works mid-call without stopping the conversation.
Kids cheering or sarcastic yay?
The kids' cheer works as a meme because it's too much: a whole crowd of children celebrating something small, like the printer working. The joke lives in the gap between the size of the cheer and the size of the win. The sarcastic yay flips it: the news is real and the reaction is flat. Keep both on your board and pick the one that fits the moment.
Questions
Does the yay sound work in a work meeting?
In Google Meet, Zoom or Teams on the web, yes: pick Facecam Virtual Mic as the microphone and press the pad when it's earned.
What's the difference from applause?
Applause is an audience clapping for four seconds; yay is a single kids' cheer of about a second and a half, better as a quick joke.
Is this the yay meme sound?
It's our take on it: the kids cheering "yaaay!" that memes use for fake-excited moments, made with AI for Facecam rather than cut from a video, so it's free to use in your own edits.
Is there a sarcastic yay?
Yes, one of the takes on this page: a deadpan, unenthusiastic "yay" from one man, one second long.
Is the yay sound OK for kids' videos?
Yes. It's a clean, happy cheer with no words beyond "yay", so it fits classroom slides, kids' channels and family streams.
