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Kanye "Runaway" Outro / RAAAUUUUGHHH refers to a series of videos, predominantly from TikTok, showing rapper Kanye West running to an altered sound that has a deep voice making the noise, "RAAAUUUUGHHH," usually written in all caps, similar to the AUGHHHH sound effect. Internet users humorously likened the sound to Ye's song "Runaway," pretending it was the song's outro. The clip of Ye running is from the first minute of his Runaway film based on the song. The original RAAAUUUUGHHH sound was made by TikToker @lil_culture in 2022. TikToker @music_4dayz resurfaced the sound in early 2025, creating the full meme trend in which TikTokers added random CapCut filters and effects to the video of Ye running and further adjusted the RAAAUUUUGHHH sound by making sped-up and slowed versions. The sound was also used for TikTok slideshows in early 2025.

Origin

On October 6th, 2020, TikToker^[1] @lil_culture posted a video of an audio file he'd created with text overlay reading, "Yo wait, why does this actually slap so hard?" The audio had a deep voice repeating an extended, "Raugh," noise. Over three years, the video received roughly 40,200 likes (shown below).

Three years later, on February 15th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @music_4dayz reused the abovementioned audio for a video meme showing Kanye West running, sourced from the first minute of his film Runaway inspired by his song "Runaway."^[3] The TikTok video received over 12,100 likes in 17 days (shown below).

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On February 15th, 2025, TIkToker^[4] @music_4dayz posted more videos that followed the format, like one showing Ye running with a red filter and the audio slowed down, gaining over 51,500 likes in 17 days (shown below).

Also on February 15th, TikToker^[5] @music_4dayz posted a video following the format, using bright CapCut effects, gaining over 180,600 likes in 17 days (shown below).

On February 21st, 2025, TikToker^[6] @goofy_broo added to the trend, inserting the RAAAUUUUGHHH sound into a video of a man revealing the "Top Five Phonk Songs of the Month," earning over 294,300 likes in 11 days (shown below).

On February 19th, TikToker^[7] @lil_culture took credit for the original audio in a viral video, including a POV caption that read, "POV: I'm the one that made this audio in 2022, and it's just now blowing up 3 years later and no one knows that I'm the one who made it," gaining over 92,500 likes in 13 days (shown below).

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