If you’ve been looking for a sign to become a vegetarian, here it is. A video showing a piece of raw chicken crawling off a table has become a viral sensation on Facebook in the past two weeks. And we must warn you: you’ll never look at chicken, raw or cooked, the same way again after watching this clip.
Earlier this month, Facebook user Rie Phillips reposted the video in question from an unknown original uploader. Since reposting about two weeks ago, Phillips’s video has garnered over 15 million views, 65,000 shares, and 220,000 comments. People are demanding to know what the heck this video is all about.
And unfortunately, there’s no good answer. It’s simply a piece of raw chicken crawling off the table to some restaurant-goer’s horror.
As far as we all know, there’s no trickery behind the video, and we don’t even know how one could go about faking this. Whatever’s left of that chicken is clearly trying to make a run for it, as it uses its remaining stub to lunge itself off the plate and onto the floor. Shocked doesn’t even begin to describe how we feel right now.
If you dare, watch for yourself. You’re not going to like it.
So, how exactly is this possible? Undead nerve endings may have caused the post-mortem movement. The chicken could have been so fresh that the nerve signals were still firing, as the New York Post states.
I may have just become a vegetarian.
— Tami Pyfer (@tpyfer) July 25, 2019
In fact, the phrase “like a chicken with its head cut off,” is a thing because chickens can sometimes live for minutes, to hours, to sometimes days after their heads are chopped off. Weird and gross, but true.
do you have ANY idea how many times I've watched that video of the raw chicken crawling off its plate and what a KINDNESS I've done you by resisting the urge to repost it
— Lindsey Ellefson (@ellefs0n) July 25, 2019
And for those who are asking, why the heck was there raw chicken on this customer’s table to begin with?, we have an answer for that, too. The customers could have been partaking in an Asian hot-pot meal, where they are responsible for cooking their own meat in a boiling broth on the table.
There’s also such thing as raw chicken sashimi, which is exactly what it sounds like. However, this fast-moving chunk looks much too large to be a slice of sashimi.
Some who have watched the video claim that it’s not chicken at all. Instead, they think it might be a frog leg.
Except it's not chicken...it's frog legs
— thecynthia 🌈 🇺🇦 (@thecynthia) July 26, 2019
Frog legs are much more likely to keep moving after being severed from the body. But, if that’s a frog leg, it must have come from a giant frog.
Yes I think it was frog which ppl say still moves when uncooked... but listen... I’m done with it all.. the real test is will I eat steak tacos though 😬
— Psalm 23 (@realkingmother) July 26, 2019
Then there’s the whole question of why the thing was being filmed. Surely, it’s only because it is a faked video, right?
I have way to many questions! First of all, why the heck is raw chicken on a table, and why is it being recorded? I say fake news
— Tanya (@Dolfan021597) July 25, 2019
But if you watch closely, you’ll see that the thing is already moving when the camera cuts in. This leads us to believe that the people at the table saw it moving before turning the camera on to catch the action.
The Mind Flayer is back again!!
— Nathan Mark O’Malley (@MalleyNathan) July 25, 2019
We don’t really care what it was or why it’s moving. We hate it no matter what.
Sorry, but we have absolutely no appetite for zombie. Not now, not ever.
Y’all see that raw chicken crawling 👀 that’s some real life zombie shit 😖 I’m so disturbed
— Chubby Ass Niquee (@cultureNbeauty) July 26, 2019
Good luck eating your chicken nuggets from now on. Let’s pray they don’t hop out of your fast food bag.
Yo that video of the raw chicken crawling off the table has me....
— Laura Rozay🍍 (@laurarozay) July 26, 2019
I don't even know what emotion this is....
Like I can't even think of eating Chick-fil-A....
We’re upset. Like, so upset.
Although we don’t know what restaurant this happened in, let this video be a new rule of thumb to follow. If raw chicken is on the menu, don’t order it.
— CDUB (@DUBBALISCIOUS) July 25, 2019
Don’t DO this to US. PLEASE.
So weird, the same thing happened to me this morning pic.twitter.com/j5UAYEXOXN
— David Geha (@ExtraGeha) July 25, 2019
Time for us to log off and never go near chicken again.
