About

Are You Guys Going Trick Or Treating? or Halloween Harassment is a viral video by the griefing collective Goron Gaming where they grief players by mic spamming loud sound effects into the microphone, including one that says, "Are you guys going trick or treating?" In the following years, the audio effect became popularized in various memes and in further griefing videos, typically used to troll and annoy other players in games.

Origin

On December 19th, 2007, YouTuber^[1] z0mby posted a video where the griefing community Goron City^[2] trolls people in Counter-Strike by repeating loud, largely Halloween themed sound clips into the mic, garnering over 183,000 views in 15 years (shown below). Throughout the video, an audio clip that says, "Are you guys going trick or treating?" is repeated numerous times. Goron City later made the sound pack available for download on their website.

Spread

Over the following years, the "trick or treating" and other audio clips from the video were used by other gamers to grief players, also becoming a sound effect in video edits. On January 6th, 2021, YouTuber Irrelephant posted a video using the sound pack in a Team Fortress 2 game, garnering over 50,000 views in just under two years (shown below, left). On November 3rd, YouTuber MOOSTYMOUSE posted a video using the sound effect, garnering over 8,000 views in a year (shown below, right).

That day, YouTuber PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC! posted a clean audio clip of the person saying "are you guys going trick or treating," garnering over 9,500 views in a year (shown below).

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