Shrek Rave Visuals by Excision

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Shrek Rave Visuals by Excision refers to a series of viral videos showing visuals at an electronic music festival concert in which Shrek is screaming and vomiting. The visuals were for the artist Excision's performance at The Thunderdome in February 2024. The videos went viral on TikTok and Twitter / X, generating reactions and discourse based on the over-the-top nature of the visuals. Many labeled the visuals as scary or cringe, using them to generalize all concert visuals shown behind DJs at festivals and raves.

Origin

Between February 2nd and February 4th, 2024, Canadian DJ Excision hosted a concert called The Thunderdome in Tacoma, Washington.^[1] On February 4th, 2024, X^[2] user @Scvno_ shared three videos from The Thunderdome's last night where behind Excision was a visual of Shrek screaming as well as one of a gorilla and one of a skeleton. The tweet received over 14,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Excision with the new visuals!! 🔥🔥 @Excision pic.twitter.com/UBjR7SaqUU

— SCVNO (@Scvno_) February 4, 2024

Also on February 4th, 2024, X^[2] user @Scvno_ shared the Shrek video to his TikTok^[3] account @scvno_, gaining over 3 million plays and 351,400 likes in two days (shown below, left).

Later on February 4th, 2024, TikToker^[4] @chindoboi shared a different video of the same Shrek visual seen hopping around, screaming at the crowd and then vomiting on the crowd. The video gained roughly 13.9 million plays and 2.4 million likes in two days (shown below, right).

Precursor

Before Excision's usage of Shrek visuals in 2024, an electronic music event called Shrek Rave had been active since March 2021.^[6] The Shrek-themed rave used Shrek visuals behind the DJ booth. Multiple viral videos of Shrek Rave surfaced on TikTok^[7]^[8] in 2022 and 2023, like one posted by TikToker^[7] @khailanonymous on July 24th, 2022, gaining over 4.5 million plays and 782,200 likes in two years (shown below, left).

Spread

On the day that the viral TikTok^[2]^[3] videos were posted, top comments left^[3] on the posts emphasized how scary the visuals were, like one reading, "why do raves have such scary visuals 😭😭😭" that earned over 191,200 likes in two days. Another read, "How to have a bad trip 101," gaining over 134,000 likes in two days (shown below, left).

On February 6th, 2024, X^[9] user @chismosavirus posted a quote that reiterated a similar sentiment about ravers being strong, earning over 146,000 likes in less than a day (shown below, right).

Alternatively, on February 5th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @gloomy.kittie posted a duet stating that people were over-reacting by calling the visuals scary, receiving roughly 359,000 plays and 22,000 likes in a day (shown below).

During the same timeframe, many on TikTok re-enacted the Shrek visuals or made skits referencing them. For instance, on February 5th, 2024, TikToker^[10] @edmdougdimmadub posted a skit about being in the crowd during the Shrek vomit visual, gaining over 43,000 plays and 5,500 likes in a day (shown below, left).

Later on February 5th, 2024, TikToker^[11] @abalaine posted a video of her "hittin the shrek rave moves," receiving roughly 791,400 plays and 194,500 likes in less than a day (shown below, right).