Shrek Is Love, Shrek Is Life
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About
Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life is a series of green text stories that often contain sexually explicit encounters between the fictional ogre character Shrek and the children who pray to him. The phrase soon became an online catchphrase in response to the popularity of the stories.
Origin
On January 14th, 2013, an anonymous 4chan user posted the original "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" story. The post tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who prays to Shrek prior to being sodomized by the green ogre character.
I was only 9 years old
>I loved Shrek so much, I had all the merchandise and movies
>I pray to Shrek every night before bed, thanking him for the life I've been given
>"Shrek is love" I say; "Shrek is life"
>My dad hears me and calls me a faggot
>I know he was just jealous of my devotion for Shrek
>I called him a cunt
>He slaps me and sends me to go to sleep
>I'm crying now, and my face hurts
>I lay in bed and it's really cold
>Suddenly, a warmth is moving towards me
>It's Shrek
>I am so happy
>He whispers into my ear "This is my swamp."
>He grabs me with his powerful ogre hands and puts me down onto my hands and knees
>I'm ready
>I spread my ass-cheeks for Shrek
>He penetrates my butt-hole
>It hurts so much but I do it for Shrek
>I can feel my butt tearing as my eyes start to water
>I push against his force
>I want to please Shrek
>He roars in a mighty roar as he fills my butt with his love
>My dad walks in
>Shrek looks him straight in the eyes and says "It's all ogre now."
>Shrek leaves through my window
>Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
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On February 18th, 2013, YouTuber SgtSnuggleButt uploaded a dramatic reading of the original green text story (mirror below, left). The following day, YouTuber CatalystEXE uploaded another reading of the story dubbed over a dark computer animation of Shrek (shown below, right). In nearly one year, the videos gained over 550,000 and 300,000 views respectively.
On March 5th, a variation of the original green text story was posted on 4chan, in which a 14-year-old performs oral sex on Shrek after the ogre chases away his entire class at school. The green text story was subsequently submitted to the /r/FiftyFifty[4] subreddit, where it received more than 2,000 up votes and 70 comments before it was archived.
On May 28th, Redditor SirBerrington submitted a photograph of graffiti on the wall of a school library reading "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" to the /r/4chan[1] subreddit (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post accumulated upwards of 3,900 upvotes and 100 comments.
On March 30th, YouTuber sam boy uploaded a Garry's Mod animation featuring the Scout character from the multiplayer first-person shooter game Team Fortress 2 portraying the boy in the original "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" story (mirror below, left). On March 18th, 2014, YouTuber Sykotic uploaded a computer-animated depiction of the original story (mirror below, right). On March 25th, the video was submitted to the /r/videos[2] subreddit, where it garnered over 2,600 up votes and 150 comments in the first 48 hours.
On June 12th, YouTuber React published a video entitled "YouTubers React to Shrek Is Love." The post received more than 27 million views in less than seven years (shown below).
Top Comments
XTGNecro
Mar 01, 2014 at 08:20PM EST
Blue Screen (of Death)
Mar 01, 2014 at 08:57PM EST