Some of those videos have gone quite viral — playing a role in the cease and desist letters that HBO sent to certain establishments for such viewing parties — and after the show’s sound designer Paula Fairfield, who’d previously teased sexual underpinnings to Dany and Drogon’s relationship, decided that the Ice Dragon’s cry should contain the harrowing screams of the Night King’s army, she decided to enlist some of the people within that crowd.
If you’ve paid attention to all things Game of Thrones on social media over the past few years, then you’ve probably come across at least one of the reaction videos that are filmed at the Burlington Bar in Chicago, for which a large group of fans offer up every hoot, holler, whimper and gasp that a Game of Thrones episode can provoke.