There’s nothing like having your partying all over the internet and immortalised forever, but now we have absolute gems of memes and one is being revisited.
Now that we live in a time where whacking your phone out at every single opportunity is the new normal, there’s no way anyone will be getting through life unscathed if they party a little too hard.
It’ll be on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat…the lot.
Or, it could become a meme for about a decade.
For example, ‘Gurning Rave Guy’.
Thankfully, he’s made it out of the meme relatively unscathed, but now he’s dishing on what he was really on when the clip was captured.
Shaun Jackson shot to online fame after appearing in a promotional video for a nightclub in Preston in 2014, where it’s clear to see that he was, erm, seriously enjoying himself.
He became the unlikely star of the video, titled ‘Bounce by the Ounce’, while tearing up the dance floor with some questionable moves and a ridiculously clenched jaw.
Nearly a decade on from the clip that racked up millions of views, the bloke is still regarded as an icon in the rave scene.
Gurning Rave Guy is that legendary that an action figure immortalising his club bender was even released back in 2022.
Luckily, his light-hearted boss saw the funny side of the viral video and said he didn’t care, as Jackson can ‘do what he likes on the weekend’.
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He didn’t even know he had achieved overnight notoriety until he strolled into work on the Monday morning.
Obviously, Jackson had a fair bit to drink on the infamous night, as well as some illicit substances.
He has since revealed exactly what he had taken which brought out his gun fingers in the club.
While appearing on the Flexxed podcast in 2019, Jackson said it wasn’t even his idea to go out that evening.
He explained his pals had asked if he wanted to go to the Bounce by the Ounce night in Preston and although he had never heard of it, he thought he’d give it a whirl.
And whirl he did.
Speaking on the podcast, Jackson said: “So I’ve gone out from there that night, three quarters of a bottle of Vodka already down by neck and then three or four drags of real good MD (MDMA).”
“The rest is history,” he added as the co-hosts of the podcast hilariously laughed.
Jackson was then asked if he knew the cameras were there when he was filmed for the clip that would change his life forever.
He said he saw the camera there in the club, so he decided to be a bit silly in front of it as ‘he loves cameras’.
The Northerner added: “When I go out anyway if there is a camera there or not, I am always doing a bit of mad stuff just to get people laughing.”
Others on the show then ask Jackson to do his iconic move, which he does with no hesitation, leaving them in stitches.
He claims that things got even wilder later on in the evening – leaving us gutted that wasn’t filmed, too.
