The Knife Game, famously known as Five Finger Fillet, is a classic test of coordination where a person stabs a blade between their splayed fingers at increasing speeds. It surged into meme legendary status thanks to Rusty Cage's viral 'The Knife Game Song' on YouTube, which combined rhythmic precision with dark humor. In the meme world, this template is the go-to visual for representing anxiety, high-risk situations, or the feeling of barely avoiding a total disaster. It is most commonly used to label the fingers as things the creator is trying to protect and the knife as a looming threat or a series of unavoidable tasks.