# Pikachu Boner Pikachu Boner is an NSFW image macro that edits a screenshot of a sleeping Pikachu from a 1998 Pokémon episode so the blanket looks like it's tenting over an erection, usually paired with edgy captions[3]. The unedited still first spread as an innocent reaction image on Tumblr in 2015, then got its adult-humor photoshop treatment in 2016 and settled in as an edgy anime image macro that circulated for years on Tumblr, Twitter, and Reddit. ## Origin The base image comes from season 1, episode 4 of the Pokémon anime, 'Challenge of the Samurai,' which first aired in the United States on September 11, 1998[1]. It was the fourth entry in the show's original Indigo League run of Ash and Pikachu adventures[2]. In the scene, Ash tries to wake Pikachu so they can move on, and Pikachu rolls over under a blanket and ignores him. The shape of the blanket over Pikachu's midsection is what the meme fixates on. The still itself started circulating online around 2015 as an innocuous reaction image, and the 'boner' edit that gave the meme its name arrived in 2016[3]. Nobody has been confirmed as the person who first photoshopped in the erection, so the format's creator is treated as unknown; Twitter user @ohtrevdawg is usually cited as the earliest known poster of an erection edit rather than its author. - **Platform:** Tumblr / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview The Pikachu Boner image is a lightly edited frame from the Pokémon anime in which a bump in Pikachu's blanket has been reshaped to imply an erection[3]. Posts stack the doctored still with edgy, taboo, or dark-humor captions and play the wide-eyed expression like a punchline about Pikachu being caught mid-thought. Two forms circulate side by side. The unedited screenshot works as a straight reaction image, sometimes captioned in Spanish to convey a 'saw something I shouldn't' beat. The photoshopped erection version is the properly NSFW form the meme is named after, and is the one that powers the darker jokes traded on Twitter and Reddit's r/MemeEconomy[3]. ## How to Use A typical Pikachu Boner post pairs the doctored image with a short, deliberately transgressive caption written from Pikachu's point of view, often something taboo or uncomfortable[3]. Common conventions include first-person 'thinking about it' captions and reply-image use in threads, where the joke lands as a reaction to something the poster wants to admit but pretend to be caught with. The unedited screenshot is still used as a milder reaction image when the NSFW punchline would push too far. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Pikachu Boner? Pikachu Boner is an NSFW image macro that edits a sleeping-Pikachu screenshot from the Pokémon anime so the blanket looks like it's tenting over an erection, usually paired with edgy captions[3]. ### Where did Pikachu Boner come from? The base image is a still from Pokémon season 1, episode 4, 'Challenge of the Samurai,' which first aired in the United States on September 11, 1998[1]. Internet users started sharing the still as a reaction image on Tumblr in 2015 and began photoshopping in the erection in 2016[3]. ### What does Pikachu Boner mean? The joke is that Pikachu appears to be reacting to a taboo or uncomfortable thought while pretending to sleep, with the blanket bulge as the punchline for whatever edgy caption is pinned above it[3]. ### How do you use Pikachu Boner? People typically post the edited image with a short edgy caption written from Pikachu's point of view, or reply with the unedited screenshot as a milder reaction[3]. ### Is Pikachu Boner still popular? The template's most active period ran from 2015 through 2017 across Tumblr, Twitter, and r/MemeEconomy, and it's now looked back on as a classic edgy anime image macro from that stretch of the 2010s[3]. ## References 1. [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP004]() 2. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon:_Indigo_League_episodes]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pikachu-boner]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/pikachu-boner Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library