Could You Be A Parasite?

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This is Your Brain on Parasites

Parasite Rex

Sacculina

Jewel Wasp footage from the Entomological Society of America

Toxoplasma Gondii

***CREDITS***

Written, directed, hosted and edited by
Jake Roper

VFX and Cinematography by
Eric Langlay

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

Special thanks to my dad and Lee, RED Digital Cinema, Panasonic, DJI and fireplaces for keeping me warm.

***VSAUCE***

[abyazkarim]

Cutting off the radio, the only chance for his rescue. Simply because he couldn't trust himself anymore. My god.

[craig]

8:00 sounds like something a parasite would say

[rainroth]

I swear Vsause is always trying to give me an existential crisis

[VeedddeeR]

Everything he speaks about in this video makes me so uncomfortable but it was so well done I can not skip it.

[liammccauley]

When you use your friends Netflix account without them knowing

[lunarrocks]

the actual writing gone into this video deserves a whole book of its own.

[supercanadian]

If by parasite, you mean leeching food and money from the people around me, then yes.

[Desklamp]

I genuinely think jake would make a decent actor

[allthingswildlifeyt]

Thank you vsauce for giving me an Existential crisis.

[thisisscoutrainbowsmakesme]

My thoughts on the ending
1. Jake refuses to be helped by the rescue team because he knows that he's already infected thus his sacrifice himself for the hunanity
Or
2. It's the parasite itself refusing the rescue team to help him so it can reprodce by itself before they can teminate it

[tterhead]

Jake, I love your videos, but god damn they can be some of the most depressing (yet at the same time, extremely fascinating) videos I've ever seen.

[ToddHowar.d]

All I learned from this is: damn nature you scary

[Maxcellanous]

Eric did an amazing job on the cinematography, Jay did a phenomenal job on the sound design and Jake, you did absolutely wonderfully with the writing, editing, direction and acting! I was pulled into the topic and the video was extremely enticing! Awesome job guys :)

[Juan-GC]

Omg, the cinematography gives this video such a creepy underlying tone. I LOVE IT!!!

[gracehod]

I often ponder this question myself. I've noticed myself turning into a leech recently and craving the blood of small children.

[SamuelWallsJames]

Man, you are the definition of quality content.

[thenlnlkn]

Why aren't you making films ? I mean that was more masterful than half the films that came out this year.

[ispilloil]

I love all the allusions to John Carpenter's _the Thing_ ! The theme at the beginning, the reference to Outpost 31, the parasite that imitates humans to survive, and especially the awesome recreation of the burning logo at the end!!

[fionnconnor]

VSauce3 quickly becoming the best of the VSauces

[spacecowboy]

Jake Roper: Giving us existential crises since 2012