The Grimace Shake effect has recently been going viral on TikTok. Nearly every day, content creators on TikTok are creating new videos with the Grimace Shake effect.
But what exactly is the Grimace Shake effect, and is it possible to remove? Can you take a video from TikTok and remove the Grimace Shake effect using a tool like CapCut?
That is what we are going to explore in this article.
The short version: No, there is no way to remove the Grimace Shake effect from a video you download from TikTok. However, if you want, you can create your own Grimace Shake effect on TikTok.
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What Is the Grimace Shake Effect on TikTok?
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The Grimace Shake effect on TikTok is a new trend in which people cover up part of their video with a Grimace Shake.
To understand this trend, it’s important to first understand what a Grimace Shake is, and to understand that, you will first need to understand what or who Grimace is.
Grimace is a character created by McDonald’s as part of its advertising campaigns. It was first introduced in 1973 as a big purple monster – an Evil Grimace – who steals milkshakes.
The evil part was soon dropped, though, and the Grimace morphed into a more friendly kind of purple monster who was often portrayed as a giant taste bud.
In any case, 2023 marked 50 years since the introduction and creation of Grimace. In honor of that, McDonald’s decided to run a limited-time milkshake that was meant to honor Grimace’s birthday.
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This milkshake was purple, and it quickly became extremely popular while it was still being sold (remember, it was a limited-time release). The actual milkshake is quite yummy – a combination of vanilla and berry flavors.
This purple shake was released alongside various promotional materials honoring Grimace’s birthday. In fact, McDonald’s even released a browser game featuring Grimace.
Not only did the Grimace Shake become extremely popular, but it also turned into a viral internet meme. Soon enough, TikTok content creators were releasing videos involving the Grimace Shake in one way or another.
Videos with the hashtag #grimaceshake became extremely popular. They fell into several categories.
Some of the videos involved an actual Grimace Shake. The content creators might be drinking the shake or doing something weird with it.
For example, some content creators pretended they were dead while covered with a splattered Grimace Shake. The idea was that the Grimace monster killed them.
Another popular trend is the Grimace Shake effect. This trend doesn’t involve an actual Grimace Shake, but a filter that superimposes a virtual Grimace Shake on top of an existing video.
This quickly became popular as a way for people to hide nudity on TikTok. People would take nude videos and then use the Grimace Shake filter to cover up the nudity.
It’s quite comedic, as the use of an innocent, harmless shake to cover up nudity is something a bit unexpected.
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Can You Remove the Grimace Effect Created by Others?
People have been using the Grimace Shake Effect to cover up not only nudity but all kinds of things on TikTok videos.
Naturally, we humans are pretty curious creatures. When we see a video with something covered up, we want to know what it is that was being covered up and remove the filter.
Especially in cases of creators using the Grimace Shake effect to hide nudity, a lot of viewers have been trying to find a way to remove the filter and expose the nudity underneath that.
This has led to a lot of other content creators, primarily bloggers and YouTubers, releasing guides on how to remove the Grimace Shake effect on TikTok.
Is it possible, though? Is there any way to remove the Grimace Shake effect from a TikTok video?
Many of these guides claim that you can download a video with the Grimace Shake effect from TikTok and use a tool called CapCut to remove the filter and expose what’s underneath.
Well, I’m here to tell you that these blogs and YouTube guides are pure BS that were created for clickbait and views. There is absolutely no way to remove the Grimace Shake effect once it was added to a video and published on TikTok.
If you think that you can, it means you don’t really understand video editing. Let me use an example that might help you understand a bit more.
Say you are writing a password on a piece of paper, but then you want to throw the paper in the trash and discard it. However, you don’t want people to potentially see your password.
So, what do you do? You use a marker or pen to scribble over the password and completely blacken out the paper.
Now, nobody can see the password.
Is there any way to remove the upper layer of ink and expose the password, without removing the first layer of ink which contained the password? Not really.
The same applies to the Grimace Shake effect. Unfortunately (or fortunately, for the content creators), you can’t just use a tool like CapCut to expose the hidden nudity.
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How to Create Your Own Grimace Effect?
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If you want to create your own Grimace Shake effect, you can do so directly on TikTok. There is no need for third-party apps.
To start, search for “Grimace Shake effect” in the TikTok search bar.
Then, scroll down until you see an “Effects” section, where you will see the Grimace Shake effect already listed.
Click on the effect, and you will see a list of videos created with this effect. Towards the bottom of the screen, you will see an option to “Use this effect.”
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Click on it, and you can start recording a video with the Grimace Shake effect already added.
Once you realize how it’s done, you will realize why there is no way to remove this effect. The effect is added during the recording of the video!
Conclusion
To summarize, unfortunately, there is no way to remove the Grimace Shake effect using CapCut.
So, don’t waste your time trying to follow the instructions in guides published online on how to remove the Grimace Shake effect. The steps don’t work, and the guides are either lying to you or created by ChatGPT.
If you want to create your own Grimace Shake effect, though, you can do so pretty easily on TikTok.
Have fun!
