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These are the wildest examples of people texting their ‘number neighbour’

How can this be so creepy yet so wholesome?

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It's another day and with that comes another meme challenge. This time, it's texting your 'number neighbour' and posting the weird responses for everyone to see.

People either seem to get really creepy responses or become best pals with their number neighbour. There's no in between. If you're not familiar with the latest craze, here's what the number neighbour challenge is, and some of the wildest examples of people doing it.

Waiting for my number neighbour to text me first because I’m shy

— merajur (@merajurr) August 3, 2019

What is your text-door number neighbour and how does the challenge work?

Everyone should have two number neighbours, or text-door neighbours. Your number neighbour is whoever is next to your phone number either side. It's the person with the last digit of the number as one number higher or lower than yours.

E.g. if your number ends in "3" your number neighbour will have exactly the same phone number as you, except theirs will either end in "2" or "4". Hence, being your number neighbour!!!

In the challenge, people are texting the person with the neighbouring number, and posting on Twitter the response they get.

According to Know Your Meme, the origin of the meme came from back in 2018 when someone on Urban Dictionary defined "Text Door Neighbour" as "the people who are a digit either side of your phone number. Many a friendship has been struck up by saying hi to a text door neighbour."

The meme has gone viral again, after a Twitter user texted his number neighbour and then asked his followers to do the same:

everyone text your phone number neighbor and tell us what they say

— ryan (very cute and funny) (@ryanlavalleee) August 1, 2019

These are the best examples of people texting their number neighbour

1. That escalated quickly

My number neighbor is not friendly pic.twitter.com/o6GLigz1L7

— josh (@isnortnyquil) August 1, 2019

2. She took his … KIDNEY?!

Texted my phone neighbor pic.twitter.com/9dtkRpxOO1

— Josh (@JoshHolmez) August 2, 2019

3. How neighbourly!

4. Wow this one hurt

dang some of y’all really can’t have fun ? #numberneighbor pic.twitter.com/zVlpm4pjAe

— reid (@reidjmarshburn) August 3, 2019

5. I have so much faith in this friendship

My number neighbor WILL be the best man at my wedding I promise pic.twitter.com/3ugAggwvWI

— Ryan Cramer (@ry4ncramer) August 3, 2019

6. Excuse me WHAT

7. This is sad

one time i tried texting my phone number neighbor and he sucked so much pic.twitter.com/M5p1oX84wV

— ryan (very cute and funny) (@ryanlavalleee) July 30, 2019

8. Wow, beautiful

My number neighbor and I ending racism ???? pic.twitter.com/qXVopPN85T

— Mikey McDermott (@MikeyMcD50) August 2, 2019

9. Area 51 x number neighbour is the meme crossover we needed

My #numberneighbor are going to Area 51 together lmao pic.twitter.com/a98lQNIa7g

— Elizabeth (@liztomlinson02) August 3, 2019

10. I mean, they were being nice at least

wow texting my number neighbor really took a turn pic.twitter.com/GNewvJxq6K

— eric curtin (@dubstep4dads) August 2, 2019

11. Same

12. Surely not?!

when your brother is literally your number neighbor pic.twitter.com/CBwyabkV3z

— jenny dang (@jenndgm) August 2, 2019

13. Loooool ok then

14. This is plain weird

Props to my number neighbor for keeping it real as fuck pic.twitter.com/fNO4ghfo42

— KB (@kbnoswag) August 4, 2019

15. Tell me all about Terry please x

so i tried the phone number neighbor thing- and lemme tell u im HOLLERING AT THE END pic.twitter.com/CBHbTdnfDn

— laney (@laneymlemus) August 3, 2019