TikTokers Just Realize That the Chicken Crossed the Road for a Very Macabre Reason and They Are Shocked

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side, of course! Everybody has heard the joke. It's been translated all over the world and used all the time. It's basic AF. It's been told so many times that the humor behind it has been completely lost. Why DID the chicken cross the road??? Seriously, why?? It's transitioned from joke to existential question now. 

TikToker @_izzy_g_ posted a video that is going viral and blowing people on the app's minds. Before, she thought that this joke was one of those “obvious” jokes and that's why it was supposed to be funny. She gives the example, “like, ‘why did Sally fall off the swings? Because she didn’t have any arms!'” But she recently came across something that explained the joke as actually a morbid dark humor joke. According to this new piece of information about the chicken joke that she read, the chicken is actually suicidal and he crossed the road “to get to the other side," meaning death. It's apparently a pun because it means, to get to the other side of the road AND the other side aka death. 

“My life has been a joke”

Viewers are either in disbelief or shock, “THAT'S WHAT THE JOKE WAS?!” one person commented. “49 years old.....I learned this when you told me....,” another person said. "I wish I could stay in my happy little bubble of not knowing this information,” a viewer added. It's truly shaking up the world for a lot of people. 

However, some people are calling BS. They are sure this joke cannot possibly be something this dark. Why would a chicken be suicidal? WHY CAN CORPORATIONS DONATE TO POLITICAL CANDIDATES, KAREN?! Not everything makes sense in this world and things that were supposed to be all laughing haha funny are just not anymore… 

One person explains that the chicken isn't suicidal, the road actually represents life and the “joke” is simply a reminder that all life ends in death… So, now we're back to existential crisis chicken… Others are convinced it is nothing more than an “anti-joke" and it's just been over-analyzed through the many years it's been in existence. But now that's got me thinking, who invented this “joke?" But then I read this comment, “lol imagine getting heated over people interpreting a joke differently” and I decided it's not worth the rabbit hole I would get stuck in trying to research this dang joke.