Cymothoa exigua --- The most horrifying parasite

[dave55811]

Dude, that thing exploded......or imploded, whichever. Wicked.

Glad there's no human tongue-eating louse. Just thinking about it gives me chills.  Think of the pain; it'd be like biting your own tongue but would feel more constant and probably much worse. Dx

[SR21990]

There I was thinking you saved the fish and then you go and plod it's head in front of the camera..

[Serotonergic]

I love watching murder.

[randum12653936]

@stopglobalswarming how would you feel if your normal diet is fish tounge and you dont hurt the fish but everyone is trying to brutally murder you

[cumbobaggins]

@randum12653936 I guess I would feel like a PARASITIC LOUSE

[glimglim1]

@randum12653936 It got rid of the fish tongue. I'd say it more than hurt the fish.  Parasites are the welfare collectors of the animal and microbe kingdoms.

[reniattitude]

im a Cymothoa exigua and i find offensive this...

[astrologamed]

:( dear cymothoa 

[TwoMiXLOvEr]

I fucking LOVE you, marry me fuck yes marry me!!! That was the fucking win tonight, damn girl, you just had to impale it, good fuck, marry me! <3

[cumbobaggins]

@TwoMiXLOvEr Let it be so. We shall marry, and spawn tens of children whom we will sacrifice on YouTube using cheap Ikea cutlery.

[TwoMiXLOvEr]

@cumbobaggins Or we can mutate the children and then make them fight each other in a gigantic tournament!

[superspartan2]

"I find this hard to masturbate to...."

[1uc4rd]

Why she has to kill it? wtf?, why don't she simply attach it to her own tongue to give the little bastard a happy life, jeez ppl wtf, I would hit it over and over with my shoe >.< , or maybe next time if you catch another leave it inside the fish tongue and put it in formaldehyde or something

[squito94]

Why didn't you give it a new home in your mouth?

[snakeater21]

She killed the fish and you people are not bitching at that, but when someone stabs a parasite the world explodes? Sorry youtube, you people are fucking retarded. Plus who gives a shit, the thing would have died without a host anyways.

[poisonhedorah]

The fuck's the point in impaling it? It poses no threat towards you.

[watertower7]

It bleeds soy sauce!

[lilityger19]

I can't believe You touched it, You're lucky to have not been bitten.

[randum12653936]

it doasnt hurt humans and doasnt create harm to its host fish or any one else y kll it so brutally. its called Cymothoa exigua, it eats the tounge of a fish and hen becomes the tounge of the fish.

[stopglobalswarming]

@randum12653936 How would you like it if a bug ate your tongue and shit in your throat.

[PlasticFlea]

When she was stabbing the parasite, I was screaming out, "YEAH FUCK IT UP! YEAHH!"

[cumbobaggins]

@PlasticFlea Straight ballin

[AlamKey]

"Kill him now Anakin! Do it!!"

[XxFindingFakessxX]

It's a parasite, a little slimy blood sucking creature, who gives a fuck if she stabbed it with a knife? I would too. Fuck I would set it on fire or give it to my spider to eat! Its not like it's a cat or dog like you guys are acting like it is, chill the fuck out.

[cumbobaggins]

@XxFindingFakessxX thanks boo. I feel like you really get me <3

[BigDog91527]

@cumbobaggins keep touching it and it may become your finger lol

[jmiggles696]

@cumbobaggins u two need to stop playing and hookup

[fatmaninachair]

@XxFindingFakessxX

You have a pet spider?

[xTofuHellx]

DAMN GIRL, YOU SCARY

[rockpunkqueen201]

aieee! it oozed :S

[VomitOnMyKunt]

@IAAAT how exactly am i an IDIOT? im sorry if parasites staying in your body is your kinda thing then thats on you -__-

[VomitOnMyKunt]

its a PARASITE of course u kill ittt, wtf r u gonna do hug it? would u fuckin hug a TICK? or a LEECH? no so shut the fuck up about her killing it jesus christ people, pretty sure u wouldnt want that thing on ur tongue right? -___- ppl these days

[IAAAT]

@VomitOnMyKunt you're being an idiot!

[Rhoodah]

Eww! Gross! You touched it! But seriously, even tho i've killed a lot of fish in my life, i never get used to seeing cut off fish heads... It's so... Disturbing:/ I dunno why. It just is.

[MoneyR8]

stab that mudafucker!!

[TJ271992]

I hope you tongue is a Cymothoa exigua :D

[EasternMerchant]

PEOPLE ARE PARASITES TOO!.......imagine how the Earth feels about us Human Parasites? We created a grayish crusts over the earth called Concrete & Steel Jungles that we burrow in and multiply with children, then, spread outwards like fungi to cover the Earth's surface and carving deeper into the crust for natural resources and emit methane gases and CO2 to raise the earth's temperature, We also Suck the Black Blood of the earth called Fossil Fuels and boil it into gases. hehe

[kingjacob300]

put it on your tongue!!

[corvus161]

1:14 Pwned

[MeeAndChicken]

woman, your grim!

[Furkan74s]

Lick it!

[Nizwiz411]

now where did I put that oven cleaner? my eyes need to not exist anymore.

[finalcloud13]

@cumbobaggins Yeah harmless, your next video better be you putting one of those on your tongue to see what happens bitch.

[eyescrossedFTW]

Stop complaining. It would have died anyway.

[h31274n70]

Thumbs up if u check your tounge after watch this video lol...

[finalcloud13]

HOLY shit you are one of the bravest girls I've seen. If I saw that thing I would not get close to it and if I touched it I would scream lol. And then you stab it with your knife like nothing. Omg, I think I'm going to faint.

[MiikkaKipper]

KILL IT KILL IT

[GameWasSucess]

OMGFACTS!

[beboploser]

fuckinnn grosss

[SuperSuperblueberry]

why is everyone saying it didn't deserve to live and it should be dead... jesus christ every living thing does its best to survive and this is just how they get food its natural, honestly...

[finalcloud13]

@SuperSuperblueberry Very true... It's not like one day these louses decided you know what, I'm gonna be evil and choose to survive this way. No, it's merely the solution that they happened to land on by chance.

[THISISAVERYCOOLNAME]

OMG you have no mercy!!!

but oh well, i guess it would have slowly starved to death anyways without its host...

[LJRO]

did you have to kill it at the end? :(

[cumbobaggins]

@LJRO yes

[MrFreefonix]

@cumbobaggins why?

[o4heavensake]

A girl who touches bugs... I like you! Wanna hang out?

[mitxelus]

How can a relative of the rollypolly be this disgusting.

[uwillnevernoewhoiam]

y wud u touch it!?!?!?

[JournalistCR]

Yeah, horrifying! I just found 1 on my fried fish last night! just imagine what I felt when saw that thing on the fish head when I opened it, totally friend. For those who think that thing is cute, well, consider it next time you would probably have fish soup or sea food soup, ´cuz it´s mainly made of fish head.

[cumbobaggins]

@JournalistCR EWWWWWWWWWW

[domokunomgrun]

sketch!

[xxxbakirxxx]

can you the fish now? did it mess up the meat or what not?

[leevancleef35]

ewww dont touch it, will infect you! lol

[Ansatsunin]

Personally what I find much worse is (and it surprises me that I'm the only one on here commenting on it) that she just shanks it with her knife, as if it's not a living thing. At least if you want to dissect it to study it (which I understand, I would honestly do the same thing) kill it quick, don't just start digging around in its' fukkin guts with a knife. No regard for its' obvious suffering or respect for the fact that you're killing it. Have some damn respect for nature and living things.

[moscovech]

How the hell can she touch that shit?

[Mimorii]

Very informative in your comment, thank you. and dear god I eat so much sushi ; A ; I didn't need to know this existed! I have a new fear *panic* that this in terrifying!

[Parkjisung91]

imagine having this replaced ur human tongue and french kissing someone

[AdventEdge]

@Parkjisung91

I have a new fetish.

[Parkjisung91]

at leasta it doesn't burrow deep into ur body ...

but still, this thing is a nasty shit, why such ugliness ever appeared. this is just too horrifiying

[finalcloud13]

@Parkjisung91 You hurt the tongue louse's feelings, its self esteem is shot down in flames.

[cumbobaggins]

@finalcloud13 it had its 15 minutes, kid, which is more than you're ever gonna have, it LIVED, godddamn it. it lived

[Av3rag3Guy96]

I almost fainted when u stabbed it,butni replayed it anyways

[RayTV100]

Thank you very much for saying this since i oftenly eat fish and when preparing i don't always cut off the tongue. It really scared the living fuck out of me. Can you also please tell me what kind of fish it was? i hope you remember.

Ray

[AdventEdge]

@RayTV100

The parasite can do this in many kinds of fish really.

[MufasaSays]

it is talked about, they are sea lice, cant remember the name of it but it was something like (fish name) tongue lice, they attach to the tongue, feed of the blood and eat the tongue, as well as replacing it, and lay eggs in its body

[adriansaldana]

I cant believe you killed it! Thats gods creature. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT to take it's life!

[Z3R0XTN]

@adriansaldana without the host it was going to die anyway, beside that it is parasitic creature

[10majfar]

HOLY SHIT BURN IT BURN IT NOW

[Skattberg02]

to just impale it with a knife wont kill it. i mean, black blood = demon. hello?

[Rodgerinho]

Las Plagas!

[eace4200]

why the fuck is she touching it? D:

[SVKmellow]

@eace4200 because she has balls and doesn't give a f**k...

[MsLazyArtist]

i hope u cleaned ur hands D:

[AsterBarnivere]

It bleeds black! D:

[finalcloud13]

@AsterBarnivere Because it eats only fish blood, which turns dark when it's deoxygenated.

[maydie777]

Thank godness you killed it. The whole time I was watching the video I was thinking "OMFG KILL THAT DISGUSTING SHET!!"

[natikac6]

The entire critter exploded when you stabbed it. Damn.

[ElderPeugnet]

I can't beleive you touched it!! hahaha thanks for doing it, it was very interesting

[turtle08s]

it looked like a bug to me so i wouldn't have touched it period especially when the feet started coming out and it was moving on it's own... fish meat is not the same as crocodile meat which holds the nerve reactions even after being freshly cut out of the body

[xhunterxwolfx]

How the heck can you touch that thing!?

[MLR13]

1:05 It's Half Life!

[Madowstone]

First we should get rid of the parasites in the banking system, politics and the rest of society before we start caring for the sealife.

[Xzxander]

OH FUCK ME

[Sadie1980]

Why did you have to kill it?

[Rman235]

THE TOUNGE MOVED, KILL IT WITH FIRE NIGGER

[gnrgardner]

'looks like it has legs well the last one did'....you got a thing for chopper up these little things???

[uptohisneck]

that is horrifying and awesome.

[mrbrunistico]

stab that motherfucker to death!

[benbenben1930]

Im sorry but you sounded really ignorant. Lol id probably have the same reaction at irst. honestly who would think that would exsist.

[samj5664]

Get a mallet for the fucking thing!

[superstephanie101]

and so i had this on full screen and i was just peacefully watching that fish tongue when u randomly pulled out a fish head. x(

[keybumie]

ahaha I'm not surprised that youtube fags are angry you killed it. it was gonna die without it's host anyway.

[hazzard77]

next time put one in ur mouth and tell us what happens a month later

[Hoopermazing]

Kill it with fire!

[iAmAnonymousTom]

Cracked.com brought me here, and I'd like to thank you for furthering my education of the MOST FUCKED UP LIVING THING on God's Green Earth.

[Lekramm]

Ok.. video was cool until you kill the parasite with your knife... is was really disgusting. Some kind of ET must kill all humans, because we are the earth's parasites, aren't we?

[3L3JTW]

yuum... :D

[uzum10000]

einstien: it`s alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[uzum10000]

Fish Parasite, Cymothoa exigua it lives on the tung of the infested fish

[marykhanloveyou]

hhhhhhhhh

[tigergirl9091]

that is a real parasite and it is also a gross parasite

[0Depresion]

is repulsive ...



[canthave]

it eats their tounge! wtf is the reason to why these exist...this is scary. I can't imagine having something living inside my mouth.

[alboix56]

whenever i look up a fish mouth parasite, it's only THIS! my fish has some sort of strange THING inside of its mouth, and it wasn't there before! i don't know, i think somehow my fish had the parasite growing in it for a while. it doesn't match this parasite; it's kind of slim, and it looks like it has hairs on it, organized like a fish's fins, but without that sort of "elastic" thing which connects the "lines" on a fin together. can anybody help me?

[friendlier]

I've heard of this, but never imagined that it looked like the tongue itself. Thanks for posting.

[TheSpearthrower]

Look how disgusting this creature is! It kills a fish and then starts jabbing a knife into a living creature.

[misterbearbe]

Why would you kill it? Just release it.. does not harm the fish (besides eating its tongue) other then that the fish does not experience any side effects and its a living organism that is trying to survive.

[pizzaparty212]

OMG!!!! U R SO STUPID 4 THINKING THAT WAS A FISH TONGUE ESPECIALLY CUS IT WAS CRAWLING!!!!! WAT KIND OF TONGUE CRAWLS!!!!

[Qdude10]

@pizzaparty212 Watch the whole video you retard

[crabbylotion]

@pizzaparty212 - maybe because the white, lumpy thing inside most fish is actually A TONGUE. Watch the whole video... our commenter knows that it is a parasite, and the title "Cymothoa exigua" would indicate that she knows it's a living thing, not a organ.

[Tomnickles]

@VersionSlipKnot lol yes killing a parasite is such a horrible thing!

[alfons00p]

i like this women

[AdventEdge]

@alfons00p

yeah she struck me as pretty down to earth too.

[34sesamestreet]

:O

you ate it!

[Terrystearsatlfc]

R I P little louse.

[DavidofThe]

Wait, so is that thing ONE BIG PARASITE?! I thought it was a bunch of tiny worms stuck in the tongue at first.

[erkziltonz]

wow wtf

[TheRealFobican]

Yack! :O

[arranpies]

is it me or this cymothoa is cute (:

[lexyley]

omg why did you do this ? were you scared otherway it would come by night crawling into your bed and eating your tongue too ? :D lol its just an animal and by the way a rare and very intersting animal. sad but true how dumb people are

[Pacober1]

this parasite is cool because it actually eats the fish'd tongue and replaces the tongue with itself. the fish can then use the parasite as a new tongue. it is very strange.

[iamnotatroll1]

lol i caught a fish the other day with the same thing (the fish eats oysters so i thought it was used for crushing the shell) but i went onto msn news and found something about parasites and this was on there.

[webusecom]

never gonna eat fish again a freaking walking tongue who thought of that, was he high??? wait a second if it lives in the fishes mouth it also has to poop into its mou... oh crap

[DreamloreDegenerate2]

I call bull shit, that fish was praying for the sweet release of Death

[frickinradical]

we learnt about this parasite on my zoology course, and i got to admit although it looks gross it's life cycle is really interesting!

[blenderit]

you should have shown it in the fish mouth - while ti was "pretending to be tongue" - looks even more creepy

[fhuha]

Now your tongue will be replaced as you ate eggs of this parasite :D

[clortizael]

its a tongue-eating louse, and I would not be touching it, they can bite

[117Alfonso]

Tongue caviar

[rabidfox1]

It's funny that you say you put it on youtube because you feel everyone should hear about it and it is often not talked about. It makes it seem like some conspiracy. The government is keeping this secret from us and you are revealing the truth to the world. It just comes out that way.

Crazy stuff though.

[DustyMikeSB]

kill that shit

[PaToOnS840]

I wouldnt touch that thing a foot away.. humans can get parasites easily.. as if som1 took a shit they had parasites didnt wash their hands shakes ur hand. you could be in infected too.. never touch parasites with your BARE HANDS.. go to the docters.

[riazman]

Lol..I'ma Luagh If Your Tongue Turns Into That Thing

[beefy172]

"it's a phenomenon that's often not talked about." Wow, what a display of stupidity. I mean first you admit in your description that you didn't even know anything about it. Then you go and call it a natural phenomenon that no one ever talks about before even researching it. And to top it all off, OFTEN NEVER???!! Really? I often never run into someone as stupid as you. I never run into someone as stupid as you and I do it often. You can even tell by your voice how dumb you are.

[theantidentite]

@beefy172 tough words for the internet little man

[beefy172]

@theantidentite

1: little man? completely unfounded statement.

2: that's all you have to say? this is your response?  name calling? nothing of substance at all?

3: 5 thumbs up to 1 thumb down says that most people have agreed with my statement.

go read a textbook and stop being worthless. your type disgusts me.

[theantidentite]

@beefy172 and your insult involves reading a textbook? I'm a pure math major, with BBA as well. And going for programming in september. I would say I read my fair share of text books.

probably thinks googol is a search engine

gtfo the internet n00b

[theantidentite]

@beefy172 and let's not forget the little statistic of 5 thumbs up and 1 thumb down. I really don't think a sample size of 6 proves shit. especially when there has been 121,557 views. Insufficient data mother fucker.

[Worrun]

Step 1: Catch fish.

Step 2: Find Parasite

Step 3: Explain to users how Parasite has eggs inside

Step 4: Eat Fish

Step 5: ???

Step 6: Profit

Step 7: (1 week later) Go to the doctors because the eggs have hatched inside your body and burrowed into various vital organs.

Step 8: Die 3 days later from severe infections, internal bleeding, punctures and blood poisoning.

Step 9: Parasite reins supreme.

Step 10: Nature is fucked up.

[justcauseimBaD]

@Worrun errm thats what i wanted to say too XD

[Ansatsunin]

@Worrun

I can't believe people post such dumb comments and get a whole bunch of thumbs up, too! Omfg that would not happen. This creature isn't built to live in a human's stomach, it's made to live in a fish's mouth. It probably wouldn't survive our gastric juices due to their acidity, or general difference from the nature of a fish mouth. On top of that, this animal is HIGHLY specialized. Chances of it surviving outside of its' usual environ are even smaller because of that.

[Worrun]

@Ansatsunin Just because this has so many thumbs up (which I had no idea of until now) doesn't make it any more true/great/serious etc. I wrote it as a joke and I think that's why people thumbed it.

[Ansatsunin]

@Worrun

Well ok, as a joke it's fine and I admit it made me chuckle for a sec, sorry for my possibly harsh tone; it's just that I get annoyed at the modern world's general lack of knowledge of nature and how we, generation by generation, keep distancing ourselves further from it.. I honestly think a lot of those up-thumbers thought it was seriously possible and through lack of knowledge and common damn sense were really going "wow, nature IS fucked up!" You dig me? Again, sorry though :)

[Worrun]

@Ansatsunin Don't mention it. A simple misunderstanding. Although, I do agree with you.

A recent survey of teensin the UK thought that Sweden was bigger than Russia. Just a small example but it shows that education is seriously going down the pan, lol.

[idmji89]

ew! Why are you touching it! why?!?! WHY!?? Do you want it to burrow into you!? are you one of those nature freaks who like to get dangerously close to animals ??? even to risk your life for the sake of "nature"??? !!! its a freaking parrasite ! hello!!

[vebopoe]

To everyone saying that this is fish murder, the parasite doesn't hurt the fish, and that the poster is cruel:

1.) Fish are here to be eaten.

2.) It would have been eaten by another fish anyway.

3.) Would you like it if something dissolved your tongue with acid then ate it, and then replaced it?

4.) Killing a fish=/=to killing a five year old.

[pistolkrystle]

I have this horrible look frozen on my face D:

[MisterDylanator]

Will all you fucking hippies shut up? HE KILLED A FISH! AND ATE IT! BIG FUCKING WHOOP-DE-DOO! THIS IS TEXAS! WE ARN'T SOME TOFU LOVIN' POT SMOKIN' CALIFORNIA LOSERS!

[xerke]

That's a fucked up parasite

[delciemcwhoopie]

Future serial killer behind the camera.

[jaimey001]

Awesome ending xD

[SwedenArise]

Why dont anyone kill the fucking parasite!!!

[Cherrigrl317]

wtf is this?

[ThatGirlInTheFadora]

it's a fish louse. It creates a symbiotic relationship with the fish. It latches onto the tongue, devours it and becomes the new tongue so that the fish can still eat. It takes a piece, the fish swallows the rest.

btw dick move, bitch. dick move.

[yourbestwhatever]

Killing it like that at the end was a bitchmove.

[Rottenpie119]

Last like 6 words of ur description was funny

[eclypse256]

thanks for this. ill be in the shower rocking back and forth now.

[LaurenRaeTM]

it replaces the fishes tongue... does not affect the fish... but it feeds on the food the fish takes in

[Valoe7]

And this is why I dont live in nature. I live in my natural habitat....the city.