Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Gen Z are pretending to die and faint in viral McDonald’s purple Grimace Shake TikTok challenge.
It’s been over a week since McDonald’s released a special birthday meal for its beloved furry mascot Grimace, but the internet is still not over it. And it’s not the under-eight-year-olds — who Happy Meals typically target — who are obsessing. Rather it’s Gen Z TikTokers who seem to have taken to the purple milkshake.
So, I thought, I’ll click on the Grimace Shake trend and see what the deal is. I was ill-prepared for what I was about to watch. And watch for about an hour, to be perfectly frank.
Like most viral TikTok trends, no one knows how it started. But the main premise is that the Grimace Shake kills people. And it kills them in increasingly dark and disturbing ways as each young person attempts to out-do the one before him.
Many people on the short-form video app have hopped onto the viral #GrimaceShake trend — the hashtag boasts over 263 million views as of June 27 — to film themselves trying out the Grimace shake and pretending to pass out afterward.
TikTok user @ruiz_alv04 posted a video of a young boy excitedly sipping the viral purple drink, before quickly cutting to a shot of the boy sprawled across the road with the milkshake spilled everywhere. I’m fairly embarrassed to admit this, but I kind of love the videos. I am not a frequent TikTok user. Probably too old. My younger sisters, both more than a decade younger than I, are always on TikTok.
The only reason I saw the videos is because Grimace Shake was trending on Twitter. And, to be honest, I went to McDonald’s recently and had some interest in trying the shake myself.
