Shocked Gorilla / Confused Gorilla Eating Yellow Pepper

About

Shocked Gorilla or Confused Gorilla Eating Yellow Pepper is a viral video of a silverback gorilla eating a yellow bell pepper while expressing a series of funny reactions like surprise, side eye, confusion, etc. The clip became a prevalent reaction video and meme on TikTok and Twitter / X around July 2023, mostly used as a reaction for users to share stories or their thoughts about something that made them feel speechless or confused.

Origin

On April 2nd, 2023, the shocked gorilla video was posted by the TikTok^[1] page @gorillatiks, who pretended to fart while the gorilla was eating a yellow pepper (shown below). The animal's reaction post amassed over 59 million plays and 5.3 million likes in almost a year.

Spread

A few months later, on July 25th, 2023, the gorilla eating a pepper video was added as a reaction video on X^[2] by the meme archive page @domiarchive, which amassed more than 31,600 views and 222 likes in seven months. (shown below)

On November 19th, 2023, TikTok^[3] user @theurbanshinobii posted the gorilla video (shown below, left) with the overlay text "Man that experimental yellow pepper that turns people into gorillas was just here a second ago," which amassed more than 6 million plays and 923,000 likes in three months. On November 20th, TikTok^[4] user @mickspaghettio shared another video of the gorilla eating a red pepper (shown below, right) paired with the overlay text, "How it feels to cover up your fart," which received roughly 720 plays and 8 likes in three months.

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