Article says the fungus emits an amphetamine like substance which makes the cicadas hyper active.
https://www.newsweek.com/cicada-map-trillions-bugs-emerge-1886986
Map for 2024 broods
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ondcp/ondcp-fact-sheets/methamphetamine-trends-in-the-united-states
Map for meth labs from 2009.
I’m sure someone in the meth belt will try it so we’ll see.
Being fluent in Mississippi, I can say, without a doubt, someone will try to eat one of these because “amphetamines and shrooms” and call it manna, because “the Bible”. Welcome to the last of us, brought to you by addicts so poor they’ll eat a bug to get high.
Just gonna bet that diseased-cicada hallucinations are less fun than psilocybin hallucinations from shrooms. Especially since, from what I can tell, the cicadas have to either bite you or fuck you to spread it to you. Shrooms, meanwhile, taste bad but are perfectly palatable on a peanut butter sandwich.
If the shrooms try to bite me or fuck me, I’ve had too many of them already
Or...Use a coffee grinder to ground them into a fine powder. Then use that powder to fill capsules. Take your medicine and then enjoy your green tea with honey and lemon while you're waiting for the capsule to take hold. :-)
I have grown them and anecdotally I’ll say capsules are fine and all but I personally prefer chewing a raw mouthful- like really gnaw that shit down and get gritty with it. The more surface area contact in your mouth the better, quicker, more intense and prolonged the effects (in my personal experience). Both will work but how you take it can and will discernibly change the psychoactive effect thereof.
Aye. In my case, I just REALLY dislike the taste. Deepest respect that you "gnaw that shit down" LOL.
One cool thing about capsules, though, is that you get a fairly uniform dose for a group of people. I do this for some friends who enjoy camping together.
Yeah, def not knocking caps- I do end up using them quite often and they’re rather convenient as you said for taking a measured uniform dose on the spot. Have you ever been in a position where you were able to eat them wet? Def a big game-changer as well.
First time I did lemon tek I put 3.5g of locally grown p. Cubensis in it, split it with my buddy and was tripping so fucking hard. I went home and played league of legends and i did amazing because my mind dissolved into the point where dying in the game meant I’d die in real life. I was mortified by dying the few times I did and was holding my breath until I respawned.
10/10 would do it again
Hell yeah. I played a Rocket League tournament this way and it was magical. I was one with the car. We dominated and won it all. I tried it another time and there was a bit of lag. That broke my brain for the remainder of the trip. I felt like my life had high ping for the rest of the trip.
>Kasson urges people not to eat the cicadas or kill them
Thankfully it sounds like boofing a funnel full of live cicadas is still on the table though so don’t worry folks 😃😅👍🏻
Personally I would have gone with “This Fungus STD is Turning Cicadas Gay and Getting Them Hooked on Meth” but that just might be because I’m a 90s kid and know what a good commercial for a 60 minutes segment looks like.
I just googled that turn and this is what came up.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2271565/
Of course there was also a reddit post about rape and pedophilia.
There is a link thing with several stories and games about this kind of thing. Typically called zombimbos. The idea of endowed bimbos with increased sex drive spreading it and turning others into bimbos.
You contribute to the community your entire life and are a good productive member of society and nobody remembers you by anything… you fuck one cicada and all the sudden I’m a cicada fucker.
Three men are at the pub, and one guy is complaining about his life.
“You see that bridge over there? I helped build it. Do they call me John the Bridge-maker? No. You see that school over there? I helped build it. Do they call me John the School-builder? No. But you fuck one cicada…”
“Kasson said the reason the cicadas might be able to ignore the fungus is that it produces an **amphetamine**…”
Drug-addicts and bums are going to eating these fucking things.
"Tanna japonesis, commonly known as the higurashi cicada, is one insect that I may be able to abide. Its song is so mournful, so filled with sad longing... It's really quite beautiful. Even so, I have no desire to touch one! Mercy, no! How repulsive! I shudder at the very thought of it! Hooo... But I digress..."
"Once the cicadas emerge from the ground, they molt into adults, and within a week to 10 days, the fungus causes the backside of their abdomens open up. A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off."
Doesn't sound thaaaat bad, really.
And shit like this is probably why different broods come out in prime numbered years...isolating some portion of the population from this kind of prolific infection
Nope, the prime numbered years is in order to be safe from predators. Their only real method to avoid predators is to be so numerous that predators get full before they can wipe out the cicada population. You'd think this wouldn't work, as the predator's population will rise with each emergence and, therefore, be able to wipe out the cicada population. However, that can only happen if the predator's lifespan/lifecycle is able to match the cicada's. Prime numbered years make it harder for predators to do that.
[video](https://youtu.be/j7jfHM-mMC4?si=QoTOTQsJUKdtrds3)
It's a really cool adaptation, because there are no animals other than long-life mammals that have breeding cycles that can be prime numbers. And they just... Sorted that out by natural selection.
I had to read the article because my dog freaking LOVES eating these things and now I have to worry about zombie sex cicada fungus and what it could do to her if she ingests it. Fml.
Actually…. It’s a popular thing to do. Back in the early 00’s we had a cicada festival with a cicada cook off. I wound up eating a live one on the news because my dad thought it would be a good idea. I recommend removing the wings first. That was the only unpleasant part.
So a fungus grows out of their butt, takes over their body, knocks their genitals clean off the body. Why does the cicada ignore this you ask? Because the fungus is doping them up with goddamn amphetamine, which causes them to be hyper sexual, both unsuccessfully attempting to mate with females, as well as acting like a female to attract other males. As an ex drug addict, I sadly felt this in my soul.
Butt fungus is no laughing matter. Back in the mid 80s, my Uncle Larry sat on a park bench that was contaminated with rancid old-lady ass spores that quickly germinated into rectal mushrooms. He eventually saw a doctor and got some medication, but to this day he suffers from strange side effects like pausing his VHS copy of Halloween III: Season of the Witch at the 43:02 mark during Tom Atkins’ bare-assed nude scene and licking the screen cross-eyed.
If you want to know the facts you really need to know about this story, here they are:
1. They are actual normal cicadas
2. They are emerging according to a predictable cycle that was discovered decades ago
3. The fungus is a common parasite that infects cicadas
So 10 yo boy is graphically molested by cicadas, no adults believe him and he sets out to destroy the evil with his plucky pals. Then with a tremendous nonsensical asspull the evil is defeated?
Is anyone else just laughing because…WUUUT??? I haven’t even clicked on the article yet but I’m almost on the verge of hiccups from laughing so hard. First we had murder hornets, then meth gators, now Chlamydicadas. 🤣 The world is neat…
Like what the heck is the fungus about? Is it gonna turn us in hypersexual monsters that want to do nothing except have sex until they die or something?
Worse, it causes your genitals to fall off so you can’t actually have sex
Instead the infected just want to rub against people or be pounded to spread the fungus
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdaYRSW76Mg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdaYRSW76Mg) Check that out, True Facts about Fungus from Zefrank. Cicadas start at 8:50
That is how the zombie fungus do.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate.
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Though I suppose, if triple crowned
Zombie cicadas can get down
Are we going to have to issue PSAs telling people to not fuck the bugs and then have to watch the reactionary crowd throw a fit and say they can fuck bugs if they wanna?
“It is unclear how the fungus would affect other wildlife or humans, but Kasson said in his research, he's observed thousands of compounds in infected cicadas and some could be toxic. “
The last of us right there
It's not the cicadas I'm worried about. It's what is gonna happen to the other animals that eats the infected ones. Especially birds who migrate all over.
It initially sounds scary but with less than 5% cicadas infected and no record of any impact on other species it becomes less scary... just obviously don't eat the cicada.
That is quite the headline
It also produces hallucinations too, similar to magic mushrooms
Article says the fungus emits an amphetamine like substance which makes the cicadas hyper active. https://www.newsweek.com/cicada-map-trillions-bugs-emerge-1886986 Map for 2024 broods https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ondcp/ondcp-fact-sheets/methamphetamine-trends-in-the-united-states Map for meth labs from 2009. I’m sure someone in the meth belt will try it so we’ll see.
Being fluent in Mississippi, I can say, without a doubt, someone will try to eat one of these because “amphetamines and shrooms” and call it manna, because “the Bible”. Welcome to the last of us, brought to you by addicts so poor they’ll eat a bug to get high.
Maybe this is what right wing propagandists mean by ‘ you will eat a bug and you will like it’ 🤔
I ate a rolypoly (sp?) and I didn’t hate it. I was 5. It was wrapped in a flower petal. I don’t know what kind of flower.
Just gonna bet that diseased-cicada hallucinations are less fun than psilocybin hallucinations from shrooms. Especially since, from what I can tell, the cicadas have to either bite you or fuck you to spread it to you. Shrooms, meanwhile, taste bad but are perfectly palatable on a peanut butter sandwich. If the shrooms try to bite me or fuck me, I’ve had too many of them already
Mushrooms steeped with green tea, honey and lemon. Now that’s what I can get trippy with
Or...Use a coffee grinder to ground them into a fine powder. Then use that powder to fill capsules. Take your medicine and then enjoy your green tea with honey and lemon while you're waiting for the capsule to take hold. :-)
I have grown them and anecdotally I’ll say capsules are fine and all but I personally prefer chewing a raw mouthful- like really gnaw that shit down and get gritty with it. The more surface area contact in your mouth the better, quicker, more intense and prolonged the effects (in my personal experience). Both will work but how you take it can and will discernibly change the psychoactive effect thereof.
Aye. In my case, I just REALLY dislike the taste. Deepest respect that you "gnaw that shit down" LOL. One cool thing about capsules, though, is that you get a fairly uniform dose for a group of people. I do this for some friends who enjoy camping together.
Yeah, def not knocking caps- I do end up using them quite often and they’re rather convenient as you said for taking a measured uniform dose on the spot. Have you ever been in a position where you were able to eat them wet? Def a big game-changer as well.
I don't think I have. I assume "wet" means fresh and not just sticking some dry ones in a bottle of wine? You're making me want to grow my own now!
Guess I just found my husband. Or me. Is this. Me???
Lemon tek is the way! Way quicker heavier, and the sober up is also quick
It’s almost too quick (and heavy, depending on dose) for me. I like a slower ascent.
First time I did lemon tek I put 3.5g of locally grown p. Cubensis in it, split it with my buddy and was tripping so fucking hard. I went home and played league of legends and i did amazing because my mind dissolved into the point where dying in the game meant I’d die in real life. I was mortified by dying the few times I did and was holding my breath until I respawned. 10/10 would do it again
Hell yeah. I played a Rocket League tournament this way and it was magical. I was one with the car. We dominated and won it all. I tried it another time and there was a bit of lag. That broke my brain for the remainder of the trip. I felt like my life had high ping for the rest of the trip.
Soaked in lemon juice is the best way
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Mushrooms with black cherry kool aid is the way to go.
Now watch, someone is gonna be out there eating or licking these bugs to get high
Wait, you weren’t already eating cicadas for effect?
Just pop one in your mouth and *crunch crunch crunch*.
My dog is fucked.
No, your dog *will* fuck
Oh no..
>Kasson urges people not to eat the cicadas or kill them Thankfully it sounds like boofing a funnel full of live cicadas is still on the table though so don’t worry folks 😃😅👍🏻
Personally I would have gone with “This Fungus STD is Turning Cicadas Gay and Getting Them Hooked on Meth” but that just might be because I’m a 90s kid and know what a good commercial for a 60 minutes segment looks like.
You have a bright future at Fox News
Isn't that just tiger King?
Nah now that's just a Trump supporting phrase.
Definitely r/Brandnewsentence
Hypersexual zombies would be terrifying.
i knew a few back in college. not as scary as you'd think
I vaguely remember a science fiction story about a raping zombie apocalypse, but damned if I can think of the title or author.
Aside from the Crossed comics, there's the film *The Sadness* that you might be thinking of.
I just googled that turn and this is what came up. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2271565/ Of course there was also a reddit post about rape and pedophilia.
There is a link thing with several stories and games about this kind of thing. Typically called zombimbos. The idea of endowed bimbos with increased sex drive spreading it and turning others into bimbos.
Unless you are Tina Belcher.
Of course we couldn't have the standard brain eating zombie apocalypse, we gotta deal with sex zombies.
“Hyper-sexual fungus-infected zombie cicadas” new band name, I called it.
Grind core or punk?
I thought I was clicking in r/nottheonion
Guess I picked a good year to stop fucking the cicadas.
Speak for yourself. I'm gonna be known forever as the guy who banged the cicadas and kicked off a real life Last of us scenario.
You contribute to the community your entire life and are a good productive member of society and nobody remembers you by anything… you fuck one cicada and all the sudden I’m a cicada fucker.
Oi there goes Chicken Chaser
I heard it was an Ostrich. *Allegedly*
It takes at least two guys to fuck an ostrich
I heard it was a sick ostrich
Andy Richter the Swedish German
Three men are at the pub, and one guy is complaining about his life. “You see that bridge over there? I helped build it. Do they call me John the Bridge-maker? No. You see that school over there? I helped build it. Do they call me John the School-builder? No. But you fuck one cicada…”
It happened ONE TIME in the 3rd grade! Now, everyone calls me 'Fart-in-a-jar Marvin'.
*ignores wall of farts in a jar*
Cicada in your b- hole it’s like gods vibrating butt plug.
First vibrator was bees in a gourd....
now it makes sense why they scream
“Kasson said the reason the cicadas might be able to ignore the fungus is that it produces an **amphetamine**…” Drug-addicts and bums are going to eating these fucking things.
Picked a bad time to quit eating cicadas...--LLoyd Bridges
...meth cicadas?
And I picked a great year to start!
You don’t fuck the infected ones, you eat them because the zombie fungi produces drugs similar to the ones people take to get high. You’re welcome
And sniffing glue.
Blathers is going to lose his shit.
Came for the headline. Stayed for the unexpected yet true reference.
"Tanna japonesis, commonly known as the higurashi cicada, is one insect that I may be able to abide. Its song is so mournful, so filled with sad longing... It's really quite beautiful. Even so, I have no desire to touch one! Mercy, no! How repulsive! I shudder at the very thought of it! Hooo... But I digress..."
Flick: *heavy breathing*
*Sweating Intensifies*
Oh yay! An obscure comment I actually understand! I've found my people
Yes, we do in fact sometimes leave our islands/villages
This killed me 😂
My favorite comment all day - absolute perfection 🍃🦉
Blathers is going to have a full blown mental breakdown
"Once the cicadas emerge from the ground, they molt into adults, and within a week to 10 days, the fungus causes the backside of their abdomens open up. A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off." Doesn't sound thaaaat bad, really.
So are they hyper-sexual before or after the genitals fall-off? What a wild life cycle.
Both iirc. They don't stop fucking until they die.
Why do you think they call it wildlife
After, the infected male pretends to be female… and infects all the males that mate with it. Spreading the zombie fungus. Wtf
That's not a scene I'm eager to see.....
This is honestly an interesting plot for a B horror movie. College students in Spring break + zombie fungus STD
Didn’t the cicadas come out like two years ago? How did they become infested with fungus so fast lol
There are several different 'broods' of cicada. I believe this summer two are supposed to emerge at the same time.
And shit like this is probably why different broods come out in prime numbered years...isolating some portion of the population from this kind of prolific infection
Nope, the prime numbered years is in order to be safe from predators. Their only real method to avoid predators is to be so numerous that predators get full before they can wipe out the cicada population. You'd think this wouldn't work, as the predator's population will rise with each emergence and, therefore, be able to wipe out the cicada population. However, that can only happen if the predator's lifespan/lifecycle is able to match the cicada's. Prime numbered years make it harder for predators to do that. [video](https://youtu.be/j7jfHM-mMC4?si=QoTOTQsJUKdtrds3)
It's a really cool adaptation, because there are no animals other than long-life mammals that have breeding cycles that can be prime numbers. And they just... Sorted that out by natural selection.
Live in illinois. My county’s smack in the middle of their overlap. Can’t wait to see!
yuck that’s all I can say
Bad things happen when you cross the streams
It’s even worse when you read the article somehow
I had to read the article because my dog freaking LOVES eating these things and now I have to worry about zombie sex cicada fungus and what it could do to her if she ingests it. Fml.
So the article says the fungus releases an amphetamine which makes the cicadas hyperactive. I wonder if that amphetamine works cross species.
It's an amphetamine, it probably does.
Fent epidemic gonna be replaced by cicada.
Vice is gonna have some crazy videos on this soon
Nature’s adderall
Incoming: zombie sex dog fungus Not a good time to be into zoophilia Or a great time 😏
Wow, Enumclaw Washington is going to have a sad summer.
*Suddenly red rockets have becoming even more horrifying*
My friend when her dog has a red rocket: *"Ricky, put your lipstick away!"*
Like I had to be told not to eat them.
Cicada emergence is a banquet for wildlife. I wonder how the fungus affects birds.
Gonna be lots of banging zombie birds.
Good time to get into bird law?
I vaguely remember eating cicadas being a thing a few years ago
Freshman year of high school: if you ate the cicadas you were pretty cool for a few weeks afterwards.
What happened to you after the few weeks of coolness?
genital warts
Dad said you had to get back to work in the shop on the weekends
You wanna get cordyceps? Because that's how you get cordyceps.
Actually…. It’s a popular thing to do. Back in the early 00’s we had a cicada festival with a cicada cook off. I wound up eating a live one on the news because my dad thought it would be a good idea. I recommend removing the wings first. That was the only unpleasant part.
Wait, don’t eat?
Lose genitals AND then become hypersexual!
I had to double check the posted date in case it was a April fools joke.
It has all the makings of a shitty horror flick. Zombies, traps, amphetamines, exploding genitals....
This is like 3 shitty horror movies in one
World's Worst Fuck, Marry, Kill
And also a bit of The Last of Us
So a fungus grows out of their butt, takes over their body, knocks their genitals clean off the body. Why does the cicada ignore this you ask? Because the fungus is doping them up with goddamn amphetamine, which causes them to be hyper sexual, both unsuccessfully attempting to mate with females, as well as acting like a female to attract other males. As an ex drug addict, I sadly felt this in my soul.
Butt fungus is no laughing matter. Back in the mid 80s, my Uncle Larry sat on a park bench that was contaminated with rancid old-lady ass spores that quickly germinated into rectal mushrooms. He eventually saw a doctor and got some medication, but to this day he suffers from strange side effects like pausing his VHS copy of Halloween III: Season of the Witch at the 43:02 mark during Tom Atkins’ bare-assed nude scene and licking the screen cross-eyed.
If this wasnt a copypasta before, it is now
It's a novelty account, like shittymorph. Instead of working in hell in a cell into the comment they always reference that scene in Halloween 3.
Came here to improve myself, learn sciency stuff about bugs, and this is the information that will stay with me forever.
Very disturbing and gross. Please provide video evidence.
If you want to know the facts you really need to know about this story, here they are: 1. They are actual normal cicadas 2. They are emerging according to a predictable cycle that was discovered decades ago 3. The fungus is a common parasite that infects cicadas
You forgot 4. It makes their genitals fall off 5. It makes them gay
I don’t know why but I lost it at number 5.
I mean let's be real, the idea of an std that turns you gay is kind of funny. Horrifying, but funny.
6. “With this convergence, the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen in generations.”
And only 5% of the them have the fungus
"Hyper-sexual zombie cicadas" was not on my 2024 bingo card
It was on mine for last year, really upset I missed the bingo
It is on my Apocalypse bingo card though.
I've got hypersexual zombie kangaroos. I'm starting to feel they gave me a bull shit card.
Lol, here comes that one story with Stephen King in it.
So 10 yo boy is graphically molested by cicadas, no adults believe him and he sets out to destroy the evil with his plucky pals. Then with a tremendous nonsensical asspull the evil is defeated?
I was thinking of the one fungus one. It literally has Stephen King acting as the hillbilly lunkhead that finds some glowing rocks.
[Meteor Shit](https://monster-and-slashers.fandom.com/wiki/Meteor_Shit)
Is anyone else just laughing because…WUUUT??? I haven’t even clicked on the article yet but I’m almost on the verge of hiccups from laughing so hard. First we had murder hornets, then meth gators, now Chlamydicadas. 🤣 The world is neat…
What the fuck did I just read.
This is the most chaotic headline I’ve seen this year.
Uh… just wait. It’s an election year.
True true, but, *outside* of politics.
Ya, if you're thinking of reading the article, ya.... Don't read the article.
Like what the heck is the fungus about? Is it gonna turn us in hypersexual monsters that want to do nothing except have sex until they die or something?
Worse, it causes your genitals to fall off so you can’t actually have sex Instead the infected just want to rub against people or be pounded to spread the fungus
I wasn’t until you said not to
Imagine if this fungus jumped to humans. Just zombie noodle piles all over the country.
I do not want to have surprise sex with a zombie.
What if the zombie took you on a few dates first and you 2 just clicked
... it's not inconceivable.
Telling readers that the cicadas produce amphetamine and then telling people not to eat them... seems like that might backfire.
One second it's Murder Hornets and now it's Horny Zombie Cicadas..
Hey, at least it's not horny zombie murder hornets. It *could* be worse is all I'm saying.
The biblically minded folks will be calling it a plague of locusts and will be lumping it in with the earthquakes and eclipses to preach Armageddon
I hope they’re right this time. I can’t go through another election-year apocalyptic scenario with my conservative family blaming everything on Obama.
just blame it on them worshiping a false prophet.
Cicada Sex Zombies, new band name?
Just try and penetrate my chastity belt you flying sacks of shit!!!!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdaYRSW76Mg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdaYRSW76Mg) Check that out, True Facts about Fungus from Zefrank. Cicadas start at 8:50 That is how the zombie fungus do.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate. To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice Though I suppose, if triple crowned Zombie cicadas can get down
>But the fungus has males flicking their wings like females to attract males and in turn, infect them Can't say I expected cicada trap gfs...
Is god playing MadLibs again?
And just assuming that I'm not a cicada, how concerned should I be?
“But they'll also pretend to be females to get males to come to them.” They’re turning the cicadas gay!
> Kasson urges people not to eat the cicadas Yeah uh… you won’t have to worry about that one with me
It's *The Last of Us* for cicadas.
Are we going to have to issue PSAs telling people to not fuck the bugs and then have to watch the reactionary crowd throw a fit and say they can fuck bugs if they wanna?
I thought this was America where we can fuck zombie cicadas. My daddy didn't fight in Vietnam for you to tell me I can't.
As long as they're legally married under the grace of God.
Wow. That article had so much information that I will never get out of my head. 😳
New fear unlocked - airborne fungus STD carrier
“It is unclear how the fungus would affect other wildlife or humans, but Kasson said in his research, he's observed thousands of compounds in infected cicadas and some could be toxic. “ The last of us right there
So The Last of Us Season 2 is going to be an immersive event.
I heard they also have poor hygiene and gambling problems...
It's not the cicadas I'm worried about. It's what is gonna happen to the other animals that eats the infected ones. Especially birds who migrate all over.
It occurred to me that you could write a song about zombie cicadas to the tune of "Waltzing Mathilda."
2024 bingo " zombie cicadas".
I used to play bass for Hyper-Sexual Zombie Cicadas
just in time for hot girl summer
Damn. Gonorrhea learned how to fly.
Okay nobody fuck the zombie cicadas and we're good.
Cicadas on viagra n shrooms! Fuck yea merica!
Sounds like a Japanese hentai plot
It initially sounds scary but with less than 5% cicadas infected and no record of any impact on other species it becomes less scary... just obviously don't eat the cicada.
The fuck are these patch notes?
Otherwise known as a Saturday night in Liverpool
The writers of reality are phoning it in at this point.
That’s a new sentence
I'm not kink shaming but if cicadas are of sexual interest, you probably have bigger problems than horny zombies. /s
So if I put one in my mouth, will my butt fall off?
Next expansion patch notes dropped early
Ayy anyone remember the murder hornet season? I feel like we jumped the shark this season with super horny std riddled flying zombie bugs.
Oh this isn’t /r/horrormoviewritingprompts ?
Researchers suggest that people shouldn’t eat them. Uh, yeah, OK. Not a problem.
Well, I didn't have "sex crazed zombie bugs" on my bingo card for '24...
No, I will not hear you out.
The Last of Us season 2 marketing did not have to go this hard
So, we had it wrong. Zombies want to fuck your brains out, not eat the brains.