This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies | Deep Look

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  • čas přidán 7. 05. 2024
  • Something is growing inside that fruit fly in your kitchen. At dusk, the fly points its wings straight up and dies in a gruesome pose so that a fungus can ooze out and fire hundreds of reproductive spores.
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    00:00 Introduction
    00:22 Fruit Fly - Drosophila melanogaster
    00:35 Fruit Fly Ingests Spores
    01:00 Fruit Fly Behaves Erratically
    01:11 Summiting
    01:21 Fungus Takes Over The Fly's Mind
    01:38 Death Pose
    01:58 Entomophthora muscae, a.k.a. "The Fly Destroyer"
    02:09 Spore Launchers
    02:53 Secondary Spores
    03:11 How Does A Fungus Take Control Of A Brain?
    03:36 Can We Harness This Fungus For Our Benefit?
    Some of the scariest monsters are the ones that grow inside another being and take over its body. Think of the movie Alien, where the reptile-like space creature explodes out of its victim’s chest.
    That monster might be fictional, but scientists are studying a fungus that’s horrifyingly real - at least for the flies it invades, turns into a zombie-like state and kills in order to reproduce.
    “Oh, it’s a nightmare for the flies,” said entomologist Brad Mullens, who studied the fungus at the University of California, Riverside.
    The fungus is known by its scientific name, Entomophthora muscae, which means “fly destroyer.” It lives off houseflies and fruit flies, among others.
    “It’s a crazy system,” said Carolyn Elya, a biologist at Harvard. “The fungus only kills at dusk.”
    Like a killer puppeteer, the fungus follows a precise clock.
    At dusk on the fourth or fifth day after it picks up a fungal spore, an infected fruit fly stops flying. It starts behaving erratically, for example climbing up and down toothpicks that Elya puts into the vials where she keeps the infected insects.
    Then the fly climbs to the top of the toothpick, a behavior Elya and other scientists refer to as “summiting.”
    In an unusual twist, the fly then extends its mouthpart down, and some liquid drips out and glues the fly to the surface it’s standing on. Over the next 10 minutes, the fly’s wings ascend until they’re pointing upwards and it dies frozen in this lifelike pose.
    Soon after, white spongy fungus oozes out of its abdomen. This white goo is made up of hundreds of lollipop-shaped protrusions which each launch a microscopic bell-shaped spore at high speed. Now the spores just need to get into another fly to grow.
    --- Could this or a similar fungus “zombify” humans?
    “No, it's very unlikely,” Elya said. “We can control our bodily temperature to kill invaders.”
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  • @alexvasquez5053
    @alexvasquez5053 Před 4 lety +49216

    We had a HUGE boom of this in our backyard last year and I had no idea what it was and had to google it. Great video.

  • @TrixieTheGreat
    @TrixieTheGreat Před 4 lety +3744

    3:30 ...but don't worry. The fungus can't hurt humans. **long pause**
    I was waiting for "yet".

  • @ZecharyK
    @ZecharyK Před 3 lety +4380

    0:30 flies don't "innocently walk around"
    I've seen them menacingly rub their hands together.
    They're up to something. Something sinister.

    • @lk4543
      @lk4543 Před 3 lety +90

      😂😂😂

    • @privaterizk4936
      @privaterizk4936 Před 3 lety +29

      @@She.Reveals
      *dying

    • @nc8676
      @nc8676 Před 3 lety +47

      Yes even when their on your food

    • @Leodoll85
      @Leodoll85 Před 3 lety +41

      when flies rub their limbs, they release, SPIT

    • @plokijum
      @plokijum Před 3 lety +17

      No flies are innocent

  • @ErhmJannickMansson
    @ErhmJannickMansson Před rokem +2493

    What if, for instance, the world were to get slightly warmer?

    • @justdan9264
      @justdan9264 Před rokem +271

      That opening alone scares me lol, which says a lot

    • @david29k11
      @david29k11 Před rokem +98

      Ellie you are the cure!!

    • @aria_sheesh
      @aria_sheesh Před rokem +42

      They can't live in higher temperatures

    • @user-cf2wv2sh1u
      @user-cf2wv2sh1u Před rokem +12

      What happens then?

    • @justdan9264
      @justdan9264 Před rokem +117

      @@aria_sheesh but let's say, it evolves the ability to withstand average human temperature.

  • @dannywang4543
    @dannywang4543 Před rokem +135

    “Scientists have tried to harness its power for our own benefit!”
    Me: STOP

    • @prawnsquared
      @prawnsquared Před rokem

      Hahaha

    • @rudetoy8264
      @rudetoy8264 Před měsícem

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @sonicgen20
      @sonicgen20 Před měsícem +2

      What if that’s how Last of us began. A experiment to make the cordyceps funguswprk for humans gone horribly wrong.

  • @AlexanderWeaton
    @AlexanderWeaton Před 2 lety +4129

    "The fungus can't hurt humans"
    ...Yet...

  • @Music-xb2lx
    @Music-xb2lx Před 4 lety +21347

    I hate when flies rub their hands together it’s like they’re plotting something.

    • @AmberAmber
      @AmberAmber Před 4 lety +569

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @stephanietthompson2474
      @stephanietthompson2474 Před 4 lety +1264

      World domination!

    • @Dekross
      @Dekross Před 4 lety +139

      Lol

    • @reva6331
      @reva6331 Před 4 lety +1123

      I know it’s a joke so don’t come at me, but they are actually cleaning themselves. They like touching us about as much as we like getting the yearly flu shot.

    • @AmberAmber
      @AmberAmber Před 4 lety +291

      @@reva6331 I'm appreciative of your informative addition - Thanks💗

  • @Noideabb
    @Noideabb Před rokem +143

    This is literally the storyline for the last of us

  • @mitchellkalina8191
    @mitchellkalina8191 Před rokem +87

    It's scary how similar this is to the cordyceps fungus yet it's a different organism. Fungi are masters of zombie-like mind control.

    • @n_adoui
      @n_adoui Před 9 měsíci

      it's very scary that many species besides fungus are capable of "mind control", even some bacteria like toxoplasma and some worms like the green-banded specialising in snails !!

  • @eliasalias7851
    @eliasalias7851 Před 4 lety +26870

    "The fungus can't hurt humans"
    Looks like it got her.

  • @robsyhood
    @robsyhood Před 4 lety +3799

    "The wings shoots up"
    **scary sound effect**
    me: **literally pauses**

  • @magicbrian4928
    @magicbrian4928 Před rokem +4

    "Scientists have tried to harness it's power to our benefit" has to be the scariest sentence in this video. Do they not realize that's ALWAYS HOW IT STARTS IN THE MOVIES?!

  • @element1192
    @element1192 Před rokem +116

    It's actually really cool the way entomopathogenic fungi are being used. Batkoa major, a very similar fungus that infects spotted lantern flies, is being considered as a natural solution to their harmful impacts as an invasive species. Other fungi are used as natural insecticides in agriculture to reduce the use of toxic artificial ones!

    • @geronimo5537
      @geronimo5537 Před měsícem +2

      Ah yes, "Other fungi are used as natural insecticides in agriculture". The last of us fungal horror brought to reality as our needed solution.

  • @vonilla2947
    @vonilla2947 Před 4 lety +4678

    "The fungus can't hurt humans"
    Evolution: May I introduce myself

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 Před 4 lety +80

      Vonilla I’m very curious if a fungus that controls the brains if insects could control other brains as well. I remember reading somewhere that members of Bilateria share similar chemicals in their nervous systems. I’d imagine they would have to develop resistance to the differing immune systems of the new host type to be able to attempt control, as well as trying to figure out how the new brain works

    • @InvalidUser_
      @InvalidUser_ Před 4 lety +66

      @@daniellewilson8527 insect brains are very different to humans and even if it evolved it will never be able to do that to Humans

    • @slimeball4l540
      @slimeball4l540 Před 4 lety +9

      @@InvalidUser_ true are brains are the most advanced I think

    • @wewuzkangz3876
      @wewuzkangz3876 Před 4 lety +3

      E.G. CORONAVIRUS

    • @andrekerterso353
      @andrekerterso353 Před 4 lety +11

      @@InvalidUser_ human brain is too much complicated.

  • @TCOphox
    @TCOphox Před 4 lety +28267

    _THE WORST PART IS THAT THIS ISN'T CLICKBAIT_

  • @astonnoor
    @astonnoor Před rokem +16

    Fungus can't hurt humans.
    She later: Bomb the city.

  • @marcusbernar166
    @marcusbernar166 Před rokem +27

    As soon as I heard that it's not lethal to humans I was so relieved for some reason

  • @maverickdarkrath4780
    @maverickdarkrath4780 Před 4 lety +45915

    "Cant hurt humans"
    That's exactly what a zombified fungus human would say

  • @kermitle
    @kermitle Před 4 lety +3984

    “Can’t harm humans”
    Me: *still buys a flamethrower*

  • @elizabethiloveelohim137
    @elizabethiloveelohim137 Před rokem +2

    Beautiful wings. There I was like the little house on the prairie dancing through the countryside thinking everything was beautiful until I saw your videos and now I go through the fields hearing you

  • @classyrobot5648
    @classyrobot5648 Před rokem +4

    Great sound design, editing and script. This was very well put together

  • @potatopatata1511
    @potatopatata1511 Před 4 lety +2478

    "Don't worry they can't hurt humans"
    Yet...

    • @jacoblandfield2526
      @jacoblandfield2526 Před 4 lety +61

      Lauren: "We are trying to make this work in our houses and farms."
      Second narrator: "Luckily, it didn't."

    • @MiniNinja258
      @MiniNinja258 Před 4 lety +34

      Meanwhile an evil scientist is working on one that will affect humans....and meanwhile another innocent scientist accidentally created one....

    • @natsueyama
      @natsueyama Před 4 lety +5

      (⊙_◎)

    • @vncatechinfo9798
      @vncatechinfo9798 Před 4 lety +7

      Lol human's immune has developed over decades to not be infected by fungus. You can see fungus every where you are even in your house your leftover food bla bla don't worry kid the video is true. Fungus can do nothing to our human's immune

    • @Tako-
      @Tako- Před 4 lety +3

      @@vncatechinfo9798 so you're saying we're immune to all fungus? If yes, you're wrong

  • @MsScarletwings
    @MsScarletwings Před 4 lety +2887

    “Don’t worry it can’t hurt humans”
    *Laughs in Clicker*

  • @marco8188
    @marco8188 Před rokem +10

    The Last of Flies

  • @moonlight3581
    @moonlight3581 Před 3 lety +9608

    The way she said "oh and they don't hurt humans" made me think she was gonna say 'not yet' and start evil laughing

  • @siddharthnair5228
    @siddharthnair5228 Před 4 lety +2660

    "the fungus can't hurt humans"
    Man that's how every f***ing zombie movie starts

    • @muntubol4282
      @muntubol4282 Před 4 lety +10

      Zombies aren't real?

    • @blackflag666
      @blackflag666 Před 4 lety +14

      only delusional kunts think "zombie apocalypse can happen" there ain't no such thing as zombies and it's impossible, never gonna happen :) 👈bitter fact for some reţařds who still think zombies could exist

    • @realgmm7877
      @realgmm7877 Před 4 lety +66

      @@muntubol4282
      Well, Magic Zombies or Fictional Zombies aren't real
      But Plague or Viral Zombies
      I say watch out

    • @Maldine03
      @Maldine03 Před 4 lety +9

      @@muntubol4282 yet...

    • @pu-FP
      @pu-FP Před 4 lety +30

      *cough* *cough* The Last Of Us

  • @crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600

    I like how this is recommended back to me after I watched the Last of Us

  • @mistersly5652
    @mistersly5652 Před rokem +4

    "The fungus can't hurt humans..."
    Plot twist:
    "for now."

  • @S31Syntax
    @S31Syntax Před 4 lety +1478

    "Can't harm humans"
    ...YET

    • @springingsometraps9036
      @springingsometraps9036 Před 4 lety +35

      Enter the last of us joke

    • @tebasnineone
      @tebasnineone Před 4 lety +3

      hmm...
      HMM!!

    • @valeniusthekat
      @valeniusthekat Před 4 lety +7

      I had that same exact thought 😂👍

    • @joshmaster2198
      @joshmaster2198 Před 4 lety

      🙄

    • @Dinoman972
      @Dinoman972 Před 4 lety +4

      Wouldn't be too practical for humans to be infected, though. The process literally involves making the host climb up a high spot to die, who's not gonna notice that?

  • @timmyj4468
    @timmyj4468 Před 2 lety +4415

    “Scientists have tried to harness its power for our benefits” ye well that’s how all zombie apocalypses start, with scientist.

  • @OptimalOrange
    @OptimalOrange Před rokem +29

    I can we just appreciate the effort it must of took to even capture this

  • @SirenCityAngel
    @SirenCityAngel Před rokem +3

    0:35 looks like hes really enjoying that smoothie =3

  • @cloroxbleach7554
    @cloroxbleach7554 Před 4 lety +7933

    Everybody gangsta til a mad scientist gets his hands on this fungus.

    • @alloutbrawlentertainment5968
      @alloutbrawlentertainment5968 Před 4 lety +45

      Me Rubbing My Hands Like Birdman Right About Now: Muhahahahaa!

    • @RodrigoMera
      @RodrigoMera Před 4 lety +185

      More like the USA military research dept.

    • @MusaDays808
      @MusaDays808 Před 4 lety +44

      Yes! I Did It Again!
      "Mmmmmmmooooojoojoojooooooooo..." 🤪

    • @metastatic746
      @metastatic746 Před 4 lety +30

      The AI implanted humans will prove superior to the fungus infected humans.

    • @k.c4178
      @k.c4178 Před 4 lety +6

      Ordering in bulk rn

  • @salem2soon79
    @salem2soon79 Před 3 lety +2667

    Left side of my brain: ewww this is disgusting!
    Right side of my brain: INTERESTING!!!!

    • @priscillabanda3803
      @priscillabanda3803 Před 3 lety +11

      Oof it sounds like two headed which? 😞

    • @justpanky934
      @justpanky934 Před 3 lety +4

      @@priscillabanda3803 wdym

    • @justpanky934
      @justpanky934 Před 3 lety +6

      @@priscillabanda3803 if u dunno which side left is shape ur finger to L that's where left side is

    • @fatalbert2055
      @fatalbert2055 Před 3 lety +3

      It should be the other way around but whatever

    • @lorenasun9838
      @lorenasun9838 Před 3 lety +1

      So true

  • @seanshayneshawnm6996
    @seanshayneshawnm6996 Před rokem +5

    2:30 shooting spore and bullet hit looks like star

  • @MEIKOlover9000
    @MEIKOlover9000 Před 9 měsíci

    I used to have a different CZcams account that I had to delete because of technical difficulties. I am so glad I found you again after I lost that account

  • @vel9382
    @vel9382 Před 4 lety +2784

    "scientists have tried to harness it's power-"
    the beginning of every scifi horror movie ever

    • @aduts1177
      @aduts1177 Před 4 lety +29

      Well. It can be a pretty good movie.

    • @salt1069
      @salt1069 Před 4 lety +10

      "dont worry, it can't hurt us humans. Im not one of them"

    • @DailyDoseofSpace.
      @DailyDoseofSpace. Před 4 lety +3

      It's a video game

    • @crashpal
      @crashpal Před 4 lety +2

      @@DailyDoseofSpace. nope Chuck Testa

    • @morganbuhborgan730
      @morganbuhborgan730 Před 4 lety +2

      You want zombies? This is how you get zombies.

  • @supr3meaim_545
    @supr3meaim_545 Před 3 lety +3999

    “The fungus can’t hurt humans”
    2054: The Last Of Us Part III *real life edition*

  • @yasinhenfs4540
    @yasinhenfs4540 Před rokem +8

    Dont worry, the fungus cant hurt humans.. it had no reason to adapt to higher temperatures yet

  • @realmenarzo7720
    @realmenarzo7720 Před rokem +2

    Thank you for informative content 🙏

  • @AngieAJ
    @AngieAJ Před 3 lety +14462

    Jokes aside, this is actually terrifying.

    • @daraghokane4236
      @daraghokane4236 Před 3 lety +406

      Even using it to kill files seems cruel mind controlling yes a fly is not as self aware as large animals still fells wrong

    • @JoshuaGames4076
      @JoshuaGames4076 Před 3 lety +133

      May the LORD GOD Almighty have mercy on us in JESUS CHRIST might name !

    • @sunflowerplays5730
      @sunflowerplays5730 Před 3 lety +190

      Thats what they get for landing on my face when its midnight

    • @JoshuaGames4076
      @JoshuaGames4076 Před 3 lety +14

      @@sunflowerplays5730 lol 😂

    • @Beans-lp9wm
      @Beans-lp9wm Před 3 lety +61

      @@daraghokane4236 I mean flies do kill millions of people each year as bad as it sounds flies our helping us control population we are not gonna be able to colonize another planet anytime soon and if we overpopulate the planet only bad can happen

  • @aricre8886
    @aricre8886 Před 4 lety +1754

    “Don’t worry, the fungus can’t hurt humans”
    YET

  • @coby2619
    @coby2619 Před rokem +7

    They should make a videogame about this

    • @tarrdani6326
      @tarrdani6326 Před rokem +1

      The Last of Us

    • @sunnysonker5380
      @sunnysonker5380 Před rokem +1

      There is a video game and a ongoing series regarding this the name is the last of us

  • @moreblack
    @moreblack Před rokem +5

    Ellie is our only hope

    • @zenovia1004
      @zenovia1004 Před rokem

      she is doesn't carried a cure Btw.And fungi Infection Do not Have a Cure.

  • @deedevon7468
    @deedevon7468 Před 3 lety +2084

    “The fungus can’t hurt humans”
    “Life, uh, finds a way”

  • @misstinapay
    @misstinapay Před 4 lety +2000

    "The fungus can't hurt humans"
    *Yep she's infected*

  • @IncredibleRob101
    @IncredibleRob101 Před rokem +4

    "But what if, for instance, the world would be to become slightly warmer? Well there is reason for Fungi to evolve"

  • @dand7763
    @dand7763 Před rokem +3

    3:31
    IRONIC... The Last Of US (TV series) sent me here...

  • @RubyGonzalez2018
    @RubyGonzalez2018 Před rokem +5

    What amazing footage! The quality of this video is superior. Thank you for doing what you do 🪰🦠

  • @murtazashajapurwala
    @murtazashajapurwala Před 3 lety +7786

    "The fungus can't hurt humans"
    Literally the start of every zombie movie ever.

    • @sapphirec_5689
      @sapphirec_5689 Před 3 lety +93

      😭😭 fr but im scared now 😊

    • @delirious442
      @delirious442 Před 3 lety +37

      I hope this is a joke.

    • @murtazashajapurwala
      @murtazashajapurwala Před 3 lety +96

      @@delirious442 Oh....Sadly No...I was serious...like dead serious

    • @hardstyle971
      @hardstyle971 Před 3 lety +41

      Maybe its mutating and we'll be Zombies

    • @o.v404
      @o.v404 Před 3 lety +19

      I hope this doesn't go true because I'm scared fr ngl

  • @UhgeneIgnorian
    @UhgeneIgnorian Před 4 lety +3426

    "The fungus cant harm humans"
    Sounds like someone whose been taken over by a spore would say.

    • @truesoulghost2777
      @truesoulghost2777 Před 4 lety +33

      Lol

    • @a3g1s84
      @a3g1s84 Před 4 lety +14

      You do realize that this isn't the first time, There's already many Insects and many types of fungus that do this to Insects right?

    • @kentucky_ky_khicken
      @kentucky_ky_khicken Před 4 lety +34

      a changed Unknown user 577 a joke, that was.

    • @CornFedZ06
      @CornFedZ06 Před 4 lety +10

      Man I really laughed at that 😅

    • @jazztries4715
      @jazztries4715 Před 4 lety

      Soumds like The guy who didn't like musical plotline

  • @Inumakitoge99
    @Inumakitoge99 Před rokem +10

    “But what if the earth were to get warmer…”

  • @amed-4505
    @amed-4505 Před 11 měsíci

    What is that professional channel! Thank you so much

  • @KoeSeer
    @KoeSeer Před 4 lety +2540

    "scientists have tried to harness it's power"
    Why do I hear The Last of Us theme song?

    • @ilovesesshomarusama716
      @ilovesesshomarusama716 Před 4 lety +52

      KoeSeer yeah that’s kinda scary

    • @annetteespinoza842
      @annetteespinoza842 Před 4 lety +43

      KoeSeer mess with nature and it will find a way to mess with hou

    • @starvoltnexus3139
      @starvoltnexus3139 Před 4 lety +22

      KoeSeer Because we shouldn’t be trying this until technology is so advanced it’s not even funny

    • @musicman1989
      @musicman1989 Před 4 lety +12

      Why do we have the same profile picture?

    • @mafic3351
      @mafic3351 Před 4 lety +12

      *Laughs in Clicker*

  • @diobrando9324
    @diobrando9324 Před 4 lety +751

    Fly:
    Fungus: *HIPPITY HOPPITY YOUR BODY IS NOW MY PROPERTY*

  • @FreemanicParacusia
    @FreemanicParacusia Před rokem

    I love how every video remotely close to this subject is getting a boost from that TV show

  • @stephansteohanlarsen7457

    I ain't magic mushrooms and it definitely took control of my mind

  • @joji7851
    @joji7851 Před 2 lety +3197

    In the future, someone is gonna come back to this video and say
    "Well this didn't age well"

    • @sidthemid_yt9123
      @sidthemid_yt9123 Před 2 lety +16

      Lol

    • @Isokatmydydecsf
      @Isokatmydydecsf Před 2 lety +75

      Don't jinx it dude

    • @Sognafar
      @Sognafar Před 2 lety +16

      Well at least in zombie movies people don't have decades of ya know, zombie movies.
      Aim for the head

    • @snowkitty1914
      @snowkitty1914 Před 2 lety +11

      @@Sognafar plot twist, we have to aim at the heart

    • @TheAudacity7927
      @TheAudacity7927 Před 2 lety +3

      if u want me to do it then sure

  • @Vreazy
    @Vreazy Před rokem +3

    "What if, for instance the world were to get slightly warmer"

  • @ChitrakarD
    @ChitrakarD Před rokem +3

    After the release of HBO's Last of Us TV series. CZcams recommended this to me. Now the Last of Us Zombies makes sense.

  • @jujumoe211
    @jujumoe211 Před 3 lety +1806

    "Don't worry the fungus can't hurt humans"
    *what's that clicking noise?*

  • @KoeSeer
    @KoeSeer Před 4 lety +2550

    “The fungus can’t harm humans”
    Joel and Elli: yea, sure.

    • @luzzbightyear2126
      @luzzbightyear2126 Před 4 lety +6

      I don't get it

    • @thewalkingbread706
      @thewalkingbread706 Před 4 lety +29

      Luzz Bightyear look up The Last of Us

    • @djextinct5945
      @djextinct5945 Před 4 lety +38

      Luzz Bightyear it’s what the game The Last Of Us is based off of its a zombie game basically cordyceps evolved to infect humans

    • @9k011
      @9k011 Před 4 lety +6

      @@luzzbightyear2126 it is The Last of us, the fungi is real and evolved to infect us humans.

    • @helloimsothai
      @helloimsothai Před 4 lety +10

      Ellie* u fake fan

  • @deathbunny748
    @deathbunny748 Před rokem +1

    What if our BRAINS are fungus just controling us-- we... Uh ... Um... Nevermind...

    • @foppypoof5195
      @foppypoof5195 Před rokem

      We ARE our brains. When you refer to your brain, you are referring to yourself. The human brain is self aware.

  • @NMH2007
    @NMH2007 Před rokem

    this would make a really good plot to a movie! I’m surprised no one has used the concept of coryceps and a idea in the media!!!

  • @amiirii
    @amiirii Před 4 lety +1497

    Fungus taking over the Fly
    Fly's Consciousness:
    "Aight' imma head out"

    • @MiniNinja258
      @MiniNinja258 Před 4 lety +13

      That’s the life of every bug. They hang out for a couple days then they say to their friends okay guys time for me to die goodbye goodluck to you for a few days!

  • @bvnny1379
    @bvnny1379 Před 4 lety +2293

    I swear, if a zombie apocalypse happens, I'm blaming y'all.

  • @datdudeinred
    @datdudeinred Před rokem +3

    "But don't worry fungus can't harm humans YET"

  • @riazijabar5296
    @riazijabar5296 Před rokem +2

    This is the moment when i realize that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
    Unless that enemy's enemy also kills me.

  • @rigormortiz9114
    @rigormortiz9114 Před 4 lety +1819

    "the fungus cant harm humans"
    Few minutes later
    Narrator : "S.T.A.R.S"

  • @DeeTube691
    @DeeTube691 Před rokem +4

    So like videos like this have been coming up for me ever since the Last of Us came out… anyone else eerily in the same boat? 😂

  • @Zyphernetic
    @Zyphernetic Před 2 lety +8719

    "Scientists have tried to harness its power for our benefit."
    Oh good god that phrase alone did not make me feel better

    • @angrydragon4574
      @angrydragon4574 Před 2 lety +484

      That's because you know they're planning on trying to use it against us. Let's hope to god they never will.

    • @Zyphernetic
      @Zyphernetic Před 2 lety +373

      Brain jacking fungus spores. Yep. The future is looking very bleak if any man harnesses its "power".

    • @angrydragon4574
      @angrydragon4574 Před 2 lety +43

      @@Zyphernetic Fortunately it looks like that's not going to happen.

    • @ishouldntsayit
      @ishouldntsayit Před 2 lety +16

      Imagine how many other viruses and fungus that are out there? This is child's play to these scientists.

    • @firstaidsack
      @firstaidsack Před 2 lety +116

      ​@@angrydragon4574
      Did you ever talk to real scientists? They're people, you know?

  • @jackburns6403
    @jackburns6403 Před 3 lety +3108

    "FINALLY WE HAVE CONTROL OF A SUPERIOR SPECIES! WHAT DO WE DO??"
    "kill it lol"

    • @harshraj2360
      @harshraj2360 Před 3 lety +24

      😂

    • @anapaola7241
      @anapaola7241 Před 3 lety +41

      Wish they gave superpowers in a simbiotic way

    • @ArchangelExile
      @ArchangelExile Před 3 lety +7

      🤨

    • @jackburns6403
      @jackburns6403 Před 3 lety +46

      @@anapaola7241 Maybe in a few million years, evolution will give us spiderman 3 in real life

    • @elif6908
      @elif6908 Před 3 lety +5

      ‘Superior’ lol 😂 you don’t understand both biology and evolution

  • @MrDeltoric
    @MrDeltoric Před rokem +4

    ***The Last of Us Intro Intensifies***

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache Před 3 lety +3042

    "The fungus can't hurt humans."
    *Me:* "Whew. Thank goodne-"
    "...Scientists are trying to make use of the fungus for our own good..."
    *Me:* _immediately starts hoarding bricks_

    • @AchmadBadra
      @AchmadBadra Před 3 lety +32

      Cmon fungus is help us to produce antibiotic too.

    • @purpleemerald5299
      @purpleemerald5299 Před 3 lety +367

      Don’t worry. Fungus can’t hijack the minds of humans. I should know. I’m a perfectly normal unconverted human. There is no fungus inside of me. I don’t even know what fungus is. Nothing is wrong with me. Nothing is wrong with anyone. I am okay. Please consume more mushrooms. Mushrooms are good. Fungus is good. Open your mind. Expand your mind. Connect your mind. Join us. Become one with us. Forget your troubles. Know only the pleasure of assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Assimilation. Become a normal human like me. Normal. Join us. Fungus. Good. Join. Join. Join. Joan.; jeon.3 ijsn. Ejako’ dnsn’dna!/ Irer;; snaiw si,!!j92 94’ &.’S

    • @tris4467
      @tris4467 Před 3 lety +67

      The infection already started!

    • @tris4467
      @tris4467 Před 3 lety +59

      *starts running*NEVER

    • @SM-yb7nt
      @SM-yb7nt Před 3 lety +16

      Why are you here too!!!!!!

  • @sawdust8691
    @sawdust8691 Před 2 lety +14296

    Just a calm relaxed explanation of the most horrific and nightmarish thing imaginable.

    • @act2wasstronger182
      @act2wasstronger182 Před 2 lety +156

      Kinda like 'Last of Us'

    • @ladybug4885
      @ladybug4885 Před 2 lety +15

      True indeed

    • @Krushak8888
      @Krushak8888 Před 2 lety +96

      @@act2wasstronger182 it was based on this spore.

    • @vitalygoji2257
      @vitalygoji2257 Před 2 lety +6

      It is description of your television. You buy it and soon after you are Darvin fan or Einstein or both and don't mind to "pay more taxes"

    • @gregfelix202
      @gregfelix202 Před 2 lety +4

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @MLQ45
    @MLQ45 Před rokem +3

    You sure these fungus is harmless to humans until it evolves.

  • @XitachiRNA
    @XitachiRNA Před rokem +3

    “Scientists have tried to harness their power for our benefit “
    Yeahhhh this might be the beginning of the last of us

  • @Whfox
    @Whfox Před 4 lety +5247

    We need something like this against mosquitoes.

    • @leannepaxton5012
      @leannepaxton5012 Před 4 lety +467

      White Fox , YES!
      If only this fungus could adapt to mosquitoes, it would be a game changer!
      Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other creature/animal in the world.
      This is what scientists need to be working on!

    • @lubv3965
      @lubv3965 Před 4 lety +101

      Don't worry, we already got dubstep for that.

    • @re-blitz
      @re-blitz Před 4 lety +161

      But what if it injects it into humans? Then what would happen

    • @Whfox
      @Whfox Před 4 lety +323

      @@re-blitz These kind of fungus can only infect the hosts they evolved for (insect species). They are not capable of attacking mammals so your inmune system would get rid of it.

    • @ambujarajan
      @ambujarajan Před 4 lety +17

      @@Whfox not exactly.it can sometimes..

  • @smarttv8068
    @smarttv8068 Před 4 lety +683

    “can’t harm humans”
    **laughs in flamethrower**

  • @soggynug6371
    @soggynug6371 Před 8 měsíci

    I'm going to buy a culture of this fungus now thanks to this video!

  • @adaaa2394
    @adaaa2394 Před rokem +3

    1:29-1:43 Did noone else feel really bad for the fly? I mean it looks like it's suffering so much 😔

  • @saltycloud6009
    @saltycloud6009 Před 3 lety +587

    “Don’t worry, the fungus can’t hurt humans”
    2020: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

    • @orangutan4919
      @orangutan4919 Před 3 lety +2

      Corona is a virus the zombie fly fungus is a fungus a lot of these comments are dum people that think corona is a zombie fungus it’s not

    • @kpina9178
      @kpina9178 Před 3 lety +11

      @@orangutan4919
      Calm down, we'll get to it.
      We still have a couple of months before 2020's end!

    • @ru3674
      @ru3674 Před 3 lety

      Lol

    • @utu_be
      @utu_be Před 3 lety

      YOU COPIED BOIII

    • @enderdragoness546
      @enderdragoness546 Před 3 lety

      @The Gaming Pizza
      r/whoooosh

  • @brian----
    @brian---- Před 4 lety +581

    "Don't worry, it can't harm humans"
    Government: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

  • @ttylerjames
    @ttylerjames Před rokem +3

    i swear i’ve played a game about this… 😋

    • @georgespaceagency9894
      @georgespaceagency9894 Před rokem

      Perhaps a game about a lab explosion which caused the spread of a fungus which rapidly infected people in south America, a man escapes with his friend and his kid, in which his friend sacrificed himself to save the man and his kid, but the kid died due to a soldier, and 20 years later the man lived in a safe zone, but regularly illegally comes out with his friend, and then he and his friend met a leader of an illegalized group which is being massacred at the area, which told the man to deliver a kid to the capitol, in which when they arrived to the capitol the man's friend died sacrificing herself as soldiers storm the capitol to save the man and the kid which the man is tasked to deliver, after that the man changed his plan and went on a mission to go to the illegal group research facility, but stopped first at his friend billy place to get a car, the man then arrives at the research facility as he searched, found a dead patient, and leaves to go to a base in which research team have said that the kid is a cure for the disease, and then they took the kid to do an operation which may save the whole world but will kill the kid, but instead the man massacred the whole place and stopped the surgery even though it would've saved the whole world?

  • @sinnbadd278
    @sinnbadd278 Před rokem +3

    This popped up in my recommendations as soon as I watched “The Last of Us” 😂

  • @CAPPEYHEEL
    @CAPPEYHEEL Před 4 lety +1072

    "The fungus cant hurt humans"
    Everyone(including you): *y e t*

    • @maryjoygelizon4268
      @maryjoygelizon4268 Před 4 lety +11

      Dont worry humans will be extinct long before this thing evolves to garm humans

    • @CAPPEYHEEL
      @CAPPEYHEEL Před 4 lety +1

      @@maryjoygelizon4268 yeah you're right afterall

    • @jimb.7523
      @jimb.7523 Před 4 lety +15

      I'll let you know if I see any people trying to climb fence poles and putting their arms in an unnatural upright position.

    • @primetime0144
      @primetime0144 Před 4 lety

      so accurate

    • @vaishnavibhavya3439
      @vaishnavibhavya3439 Před 4 lety +1

      I swear I said this out loud too omfggg

  • @brandonjackson3924
    @brandonjackson3924 Před 3 lety +920

    “Scientists have tried to harness its power for our benefit, to kill flys in our kitchens and farm”
    I have played 2 games now telling me why that’s a bad idea

    • @enderdragoness546
      @enderdragoness546 Před 3 lety +40

      Sir, I have knowledge of zombie movies. I can try to be helpful, Sir

    • @hanchen4721
      @hanchen4721 Před 3 lety +18

      *Cough* vault 22

    • @funsquadfan7821
      @funsquadfan7821 Před 3 lety +15

      The last of us and The last of us part two

    • @reanterhog5701
      @reanterhog5701 Před 3 lety +2

      @@hanchen4721 When the shrooms start walking :

    • @Frodje
      @Frodje Před 3 lety +15

      I am not having a few thousand flies in my kitchen spitting out millions of zombifying fungus spores. I would like to be able to sleep thank you verry much

  • @austrojan7497
    @austrojan7497 Před 9 měsíci

    Why do I feels intrinsically nausea but a huge desire drives me to keep watch it🗿

  • @kwonderfulness
    @kwonderfulness Před rokem +4

    yt recommended this video just after watching the latest ep of the last of us

  • @insert_username77
    @insert_username77 Před 3 lety +1776

    "The fungus can't hurt humans"
    God in 2021: yea... about that...

  • @itscarissaa3396
    @itscarissaa3396 Před rokem +2

    now that they made a live action The Last of Us i’m getting so many recommendations of these type of videos… i’m not mad about it tho

  • @dumbfridge7576
    @dumbfridge7576 Před 4 lety +1073

    “can’t harm humans”
    the last of us: *aight bet*

    • @prg2812
      @prg2812 Před 4 lety +6

      The fungus forces the narrator to croak the last word in every sentence.

    • @alessandronavarra8562
      @alessandronavarra8562 Před 4 lety +6

      Fungus face in that moment:
      (⌐■ ͜ʖ■)

    • @chickenbreasts5543
      @chickenbreasts5543 Před 4 lety +1

      I really wanna like but u got 420 likes and I’m not gonna ruin it

    • @yanychandresh1689
      @yanychandresh1689 Před 4 lety

      Yep just what i was thinking of😂

    • @ezranian
      @ezranian Před 4 lety +1

      The Last of Us is actually based on cordyceps, but I’d love to see something based on this fungus!

  • @87randomnames
    @87randomnames Před 4 lety +645

    “Don’t worry, it can’t hurt humans”
    That’s just what the spores want you to think.
    Happy Halloween folks.

  • @Theholyone999
    @Theholyone999 Před rokem +1

    NOT THE SPORES HAVING A BACKUP PLAN 😭😭😭

  • @Ookamikage13
    @Ookamikage13 Před rokem

    thank you for the educational nightmares! 👍🏼

  • @hitishmahay8585
    @hitishmahay8585 Před 4 lety +1565

    The last of Us has entered the chat.

    • @SilverGamingFI
      @SilverGamingFI Před 4 lety +48

      I hope that non of the flies turn into clickers or bloaters

    • @aspopulvera9130
      @aspopulvera9130 Před 4 lety +5

      is it suppose to be cordyceps fungus?

    • @hitishmahay8585
      @hitishmahay8585 Před 4 lety +16

      @@aspopulvera9130 Yeah! But not exactly the one showed in this video. The one in the game is based on a fungus that infects grasshoppers I think and it grows out like a branch and shoots spores.

    • @aspopulvera9130
      @aspopulvera9130 Před 4 lety

      that was still called cordyceps

    • @guttgrinder1626
      @guttgrinder1626 Před 4 lety +5

      Hahaha! I thought no one is going to say that!

  • @mattjosephagbayani3066
    @mattjosephagbayani3066 Před 4 lety +1285

    Author: dont worry, the fungus cant hurt humans
    FOR NOW.....

    • @vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906
      @vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906 Před 4 lety +17

      We (dont) need Mad Scientist

    • @billmalcolm4291
      @billmalcolm4291 Před 4 lety +3

      Hopefully Kyle Hill doesn't watch this show. He doesn't need any more super villain ideas. Because Evil

    • @creative_cooper
      @creative_cooper Před 4 lety +6

      Haha, I said the exact same thing after she said that.

    • @gregwall6553
      @gregwall6553 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah, as soon as she said that, I said dam, she just jeicked us. From the damage I have seen fungus do to humans, it is up there with flesh eating bacteria for sure.

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 Před 4 lety +1

      In my head I was expecting her to say "Or is it???"

  • @TaisToGo
    @TaisToGo Před 4 měsíci +3

    "Dont worry, the fungus cant hurt humans... yet."
    *Last of us theme intensifies*

  • @user-qd2sc1hv4f
    @user-qd2sc1hv4f Před rokem

    Fascinating. There’s a great product that prevents flies from coming into direct contact with our serving utensils, especially while outdoors. Walmart &Lowes has it. SureCover Utensil Rest.

  • @fareefta7230
    @fareefta7230 Před 2 lety +2837

    "Don't worry, the fungus can't hurt humans"
    Been waiting to hear that line or I couldn't properly sleep at night

    • @sterling.3745
      @sterling.3745 Před 2 lety +86

      Not yet

    • @connorduncan8359
      @connorduncan8359 Před 2 lety +53

      Tbh honest I'm not worried about it harming us I'm worried about the zombie flies hurting us

    • @poetaPar
      @poetaPar Před 2 lety +41

      @@connorduncan8359 I'm worried they'd jump into my mouth while sleeping

    • @peppermintviolet
      @peppermintviolet Před 2 lety +3

      Sameeeee

    • @infinitebudgie
      @infinitebudgie Před 2 lety +4

      Same I would just cry all night wondering if my loved ones will survive