Why Is The Exposed Nerve Prank Horrifying?

A funny prank to play on your friends
Please comment if you know more about this meme's origins.

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[someguy]

There’s a good part of this, because we wouldn’t think it was horrifying if we didn’t empathise with the character’s pain.

[yvvkiRika]

The horror from this meme doesn't come from the fear of the unknown, it's merely the uneasy feeling of sheer imagination trying to interprets the casual "pulling your exposed nerve" situation.

[unknownvariable]

I’m curious just how mind-numbingly painful someone tugging your exposed nerves would feel. This meme is borderline horror under a different context

[voli]

I feel like people are underestimating how painful an exposed nerve is. Even just wind blowin on it feels like your being stung with needles

[austinjones]

Take it from a guy whose had extensive damage to the nerves in his right hand, this meme pretty accurately describes the unbelievable pain that comes with an exposed nerve being messed with..

[lolsnake]

The scariest thing about nerve endings is that even a slight gust of wind on an exposed nerve can cause a pain sensory overload reaction, where the heart speeds up to incredible levels then stops. the body is flawed, greatly. Science isnt very kind

[Dabs_All_Ovar]

It's always been amazing to me how memes have different "genres", such as the Exposed Nerve Ending meme being almost a 'horror' meme, or how the strokes meme is a 'music' meme. Amazing video on the subject

[mk_]

"Why is the exposed nerve prank terryfying?"
Man, I think we can logically understand ourselves.

[TheAnimalKingdom-tqsz]

Didn't expect this to become a meme but overall, It's well made and very funny, creepiness factor aside

[greatestgrasshopper]

If I ever tried to imagine the pain of an exposed nerve being pulled without the goofy context, I probably would pass out.

[poweroffriendship.]

The "exposed nerve" illustration really gives me the Adventure Time vibes. It looks innocent at first, but it slowly morphed into an Eldritch abomination.

[kindatim]

There's something unexplainably unsettling about this meme. Beyond the usual creepiness. It *feels* painful to even think about it. To me, at least.

[unknownvariable]

My friend’s reaction was hilarious! They went to sleep after screaming for 23 minutes and never woke up! I bet they had so much fun that they were tired afterwards and went to sleep.

[violetmaple]

another part i feel puts this meme up is that there’s never an explanation for why your friend has exposed nerve endings. what happened to their arm for there to only be nerves left? why are they so calm about it? it’s just quite excellent if you ask me

[whar]

Did this prank on my friend. I can confirm that you DO actually turn into a ungodly horror beyond the minds comprehension if you do suffer this prank.

[thepanzerofthelake]

Fun fact: Once in my life I had an exposed nerve right at the tip of my right toe because I cut it on a piece of glass that cut it (It was bandaged obviously but the nerve was outside of the bandage) I went to get a glass of water, the exposed nerve went below my toe so I stepped on it, I looked at God and Satan with fear in my eyes, fell down and broke my nose.

[eclogitetack]

This can also be referenced to the memes of the “pranks to pull on a sleepover” that show detailed surgery procedures

[skeleton]

i cant imagine what agony you must feel when your nerves are pulled

[theguynextdoor]

I generally am scared of people who actually laughs at this meme.

[maya_void]

As someone who is oversensitive to pain, and was scared to go to the dentist because painkilling agent NEVER FUCKING WORKED for me. I was living with exposed nerve ending form my teeth, the canals were exposed and it was that way: when the corrosion of a teeth gone far enough to expose nerve ending, I touched accidentally my teeth and I couldn't move from pain for 10 seconds, i froze, and then I just screamed, and was screaming non stop for another 10 minutes until my voice stopped working, as my girlfriend ran to the pharmacy for painkillers I was just laying on the bed on my side, praying to God for it to end even when I'm atheist, my memory went blank, my thoughts stopped running, and I can only describe the pain as if I had half of my head submerged in boiling oil for amount of time I don't remember and rest of the body, specifically half of it were in pain that I can describe as deep, numbing, immobilizing, but the head was worst, when I got the painkillers pain turned into more of a hot point where my tooth was, like a metal rod was put in my jaw and through skull, red hot, and pulled and pushed, after couple Hours I started to be more functional, pain was bad but not even close to what I've just experienced, my girlfriend instantly called the dentist when this happened but I've waited like 7 hours until dentist was available. I felt pain close to this but not as bad couple months later when my other tooth got corroded bad enough, I was on opioids that time and I never left the house without them, I got addicted pretty easily as someone who experience pains for a whole life much more relatively to other people. and now even when Im past surgery that removed all my teeth with corroded canals i still have to take them. So yeah, I can't imagine the pain from pulling so much nerve endings from a hand. I'm scared as fuck of pain since I'm Hyperalgesic, that means I feel more pain that average human, it so terrifying that statistically Ill probably have some accident or surgery.