r/whatisit • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 6h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/Redd1tRat 5h ago

This is a lie, if you get bitten, within a week you will become one.

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u/overdramaticpan 5h ago

secretly i'm a longhorn beetle in disguise, ssshhhhh

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u/yournamehere10bucks 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/DtuVm6vCmerf2

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u/Dr_MineStein_ 1h ago

How is there a perfect gif for literally everything these days

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 1h ago

America started focusing on entertainment and content creation more than literally everything else for the past few decades.

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u/pixel_inker 1h ago

For real right! LOL!

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u/yournamehere10bucks 24m ago

To quote BNL: "its all been done, before"

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u/MNgrown2299 5h ago

Craaaab people, craaaab people. Looks like people, really crabbbbb people.

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u/Inside-Judgment-725 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oKIP5fxFA8Dg3LJbG

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u/NekoDarkLink1988 4h ago

All hail our new found leaders!

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u/lisa_is_chi 1h ago

Casey Rocket!! 🦀

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u/THENATIVE54 4h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/MajorSerenity 4h ago

Move like crab, talk like people.

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u/Odd-Consequence-2519 3h ago

I got the moves like Crabber.
I got the moves like Crabber.
I got the moo ooo ooo ooo oooves.

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 4h ago

Look like crab, talk like people 

Craaaab people, craaaab people 

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u/MNgrown2299 4h ago

lol thank you! I knew I was messing it up but couldn’t be bothered to check

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u/DinosaurusWhen 4h ago

Its been so long that I thought it was "looks like crab, tastes like people"

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 4h ago

According to Google we all have it wrong 

Taste like crab, talk like people

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u/DinosaurusWhen 4h ago

I guess it's time for a rewatch. aaaaafter another round of Archer 

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u/Llamaaa_scarf 4h ago

Wahhhh I could have sworn it was looks like crab all these years!! I heard the chant in my head immediately 🦀🦀🦀

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 4h ago

You and me both. It just makes sense. 🤷

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u/Acceptable_Guess_63 3h ago

The almighty google is right again.

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u/more-cilantro 3h ago

Craaaab people, craaaab people,

Look like crab, kiss like people 

(South Park: The Fractured But Whole)

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 3h ago

That title gets me Everytime 

They wanted to call it the butthole of truth or something similar, but weren't allowed to have butthole in the title. 

So they fractured it. 

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u/more-cilantro 2h ago

The end result turned out beautiful lol

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u/Objective_Damage_996 4h ago

My dad had me singing this at like 6 years old and it embarrassed other adults I knew

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u/DeepFinish2895 4h ago

Everything turns into crabs

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u/adnyp 3h ago

If you put on the special glasses you can see what they truly are.

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u/WanderlustStew 4h ago

So you are who they based the movie Mimic about. I knew it was real!

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u/Arrius 4h ago

Is it a good disguise or do your antennae hang out?

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u/Bluejay1981 4h ago

If he arranges them right, he might get more dates from. chicks and more respect from dudes, you know, like John Travolta did in Grease? (please please please don’t let him say that he wasn’t born yet!)

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u/animauux 4h ago

Sounds like something a longhorn beetle would say....

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u/prison-schism 4h ago

Yeah, just trying to recruit unsuspecting youngsters, right???

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u/Infinite-Pea199 4h ago

😂😂😂

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u/StrangeCrimes 5h ago

So that's what happened to Gregor Samsa.

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u/Psykosoma 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/a0VlbFiBtZSog
Poor Wikus…

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u/Effective_Rock_2513 4h ago

3 years...I promise...

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u/Burggs_ 4h ago

Unrelated but this movie was so sick when it came out

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u/nyxistential 4h ago

Related: this movie is still so sick.

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u/Wish_Capital 3h ago

But poor vondamerva could use the weapons!!

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u/UberTanks 3h ago

fookin prawns

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u/Dead-Calligrapher 4h ago

This guy Kafkas

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u/Many-Narwhal754 2h ago

When I hear people say Kafkaesque…

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u/icansmellcolors 55m ago

Hey, is there an apple in my back? I feel like there's an apple literally in my back.

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u/Hay-River 5h ago

ball knowledge

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u/Extreme-Name-69 4h ago

I thought it was a GoT reference

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u/redgeck0 4h ago

How Kafkaesque

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u/Silver-Quilter-6901 4h ago

I came here for this lol… Thank you

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u/itsa_me_ 4h ago

I literally just read that book yesterday. Pretty cool book

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u/Unordered_bean 3h ago

"Suddenly, One Day."

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u/nyxistential 4h ago

How embarrassing. 

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u/Elegante_Sigmaballz 5h ago

Yes! Bug power!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/LxC1qHykG0kb3ML2XZ

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u/Atma-Stand 3h ago

Gills is about to drop kick an MF.

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u/swimdownstream 5h ago

I saw these in District 9, can confirm its true.

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u/RaiyenZ 5h ago

They do look very similar to those fookin prawns

https://giphy.com/gifs/a0VlbFiBtZSog

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u/Vellc 5h ago

I'm taking Beetleman

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u/Cybertronian_Fox 5h ago

Is this where Kamen Riders come from?

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u/Sunny16Rule 5h ago

You have to be bitten twice and then get wet

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u/Expert-Outside-2024 5h ago

Like Seth Brundle?

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u/DarknMean 5h ago

A District 9 fan I see.

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u/berlandiera 4h ago

Dammit.

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u/theartificialkid 4h ago

This is not true, it only takes six to twelve hours (usually will happen in the middle of the night so you can turn your family too while they sleep)

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u/kcinlive 4h ago

That’s just what Big Longhorn Beetle wants you to think!

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u/No_Walrus_3638 4h ago

Chimera Ants!

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u/Useful_Today_4273 4h ago

This is true. It happened to my sister. Now we make her sit at the far end of the dinner table.

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u/LetDuncanDie 4h ago

I'll become a shorthorn beetle?!

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u/MajorSerenity 4h ago

This one was my uncle Frank

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u/thatleftycurse 4h ago

Doesn’t matter what it is! Kill it!

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u/nerdyvintageco 4h ago

Would I still need to pay taxes?

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u/Giorgio_Keeffe 4h ago

Also not bad at all

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u/skiesoverblackvenice 4h ago

can vouch, i am a longhorn beetle

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u/Cashie22 4h ago

😳

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u/suddle 4h ago

It’s true. I was in love, but he got bit by an animal and became that animal.

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u/Someguywhomakething 4h ago

"I'll come back for you... three years, I promise"

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u/Nir117vash 4h ago

District 9 ref? Lol

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u/IHateMelplac 4h ago

Yeah, this was Mike my neighbor. He's family is worried about him, glad to see my mam is doing well with his new friends.

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u/Past-Track-9976 3h ago

This is the type of tomfoolery my maternal uncles used to say. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 such a good time

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u/Maximum_Chard_2752 3h ago

He got bit by an animal and became that animal

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u/DiligentParsley420 3h ago

Yes I've seen the doc too

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u/Ok-Leg9721 3h ago

Well I'm already a redditor it can't get much worse

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u/Stock_Ad_3516 3h ago

Werebeetle would be a sick band name

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u/TrashAcnt1 3h ago

That was the old model, with this new variant you're transformed within the hour you're bitten

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u/Tom-Dibble 2h ago

It’s true! Kafka wrote about it.

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u/JibletHunter 1h ago

Classic were-longhorn beetle propaganda. Its so obvious.

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u/BenefitTechnical9307 1h ago

Actually you become a super hero first but if you survive long enough you see yourself become the villain...

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u/peachgravy 1h ago

I remember that X Files episode

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u/blubbahrubbah 1h ago

Like full-on? Or like a werebeetle?

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u/Kitterpea 42m ago

That’s just what Big Beetle wants you to think.

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u/1-800-ASS-DICK 39m ago

🎵 BIIIIG BAAAD BEETLEBORGS!! 🎵