{"id":947,"date":"2025-07-24T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/?p=947"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:25:11","slug":"gurning-rave-guy-reemerges-at-tomorrowland-recreates-viral-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/gurning-rave-guy-reemerges-at-tomorrowland-recreates-viral-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"“Gurning Rave Guy” Reemerges at Tomorrowland, Recreates Viral Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaun Jackson, better known online as the “Gurning Rave Guy,” has returned to the spotlight after surfacing at Tomorrowland 2025.<\/p>\n

Over a decade since his wild-eyed, jaw-clenching moves took the internet by storm, Jackson was seen once again throwing down with full enthusiasm, this time in a sea of festivalgoers during Charlotte de Witte’s set at the iconic EDM festival in Belgium. His original rise to viral game came in 2014 after promotional footage from a night at the Rumes nightclub in Preston caught him in full form, shirtless and shameless.<\/p>\n

A plasterer by trade and former amateur boxer, Jackson hails from Chorley in the north of England. He wasn’t chasing attention when that now-famous club clip surfaced, but once the internet took hold, he didn’t shy away from it either.<\/p>\n

With his bug-eyed stare and flailing limbs, he became something of a folk hero in certain corners of rave culture. His cult following grew so much that\u00a0a limited-edition action figure of Jackson was released<\/a>\u00a0in 2022 as part of a collaboration between two UK-based creators.<\/p>\n

Now in his 40s, Jackson has balanced his party presence with everyday life, posting TikToks<\/a> that jump between dancing clips, construction work and podcast clips. Check out a clip of him raving at Tomorrowland 2025 below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shaun Jackson, better known online as the “Gurning Rave Guy,” has returned to the spotlight after surfacing at Tomorrowland 2025. Over a decade since his wild-eyed, jaw-clenching moves took the internet by storm, Jackson was seen once again throwing down with full enthusiasm, this time in a sea of festivalgoers during Charlotte de Witte’s set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evansvilleschools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}