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If Twitter has it’s way, the days of Rocky as the University of Toledo mascot may be numbered.

The University’s social media team put out a tweet on Tuesday, saying if it received 500,000 retweets, the mascot would be changed to Shrek.

If this gets 500k retweets we'll change our mascot to Shrek pic.twitter.com/QK1XJL1ykC

— The University of Toledo (@UToledo) April 24, 2018

While that number seems unreasonable at first, Twitter users seem to be up for the challenge. As of Tuesday afternoon, the tweet had more than 26,000 retweets, and it was gaining roughly 1,000 new retweets every two minutes.