The Truth Behind the Viral Burning Man Creature & TikTok's "Octo-Bear"

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[@Brew]

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[@fallschannel4331]

thank you for produce quality contact

[@metern]

Thank you. Now, i won't be able to sleep tonight 😱

[@kramster9963]

Finally a youtube "mystery" video that doesn't take 20 minutes to give us a solid answer

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Or even worse, not give an answer at all.

[@enviousshogun]

See, when people actually try, you can fit like 5 of those in one video, but those people who just farm your time put 1 in a video and it takes like 20 minutes to get to the point

[@napoleonfeanor]

I think it depends on the mystery. Some are more complicated than others

[@TheObjectGuy54]

Brew can make any normal living object give someone an existential crisis.

[@blockythe]

hello

[@CthulhuCuddler]

I hatched and raised 3 generations of triops in an aquarium. Some of the most interesting and fun to watch creatures, I highly recommend giving it a go for anybody remotely interested.

[@admiralbutt]

I'll take 3!

[@cam5816]

What do they do?

[@CthulhuCuddler]

@cam5816 they just swim and eat etc, but they're fun to watch. Their rhythmic leg(?) movements are kind mesmerizing, IMO

[@RikuHarada6996]

Can they live amongst goldfishes?

[@Klufenza]

​@@RikuHarada6996sure they can! As a dinner tho

[@dbunik44]

without having watched the vid, I'm guessing those are tape worms...don't eat bears kids

[@i_amjaxx02]

Good thing I don’t like fish

[@peterresetz1960]

There is the parasite trichinosis, that can invade the human body through eating bear meat that's not cooked properly. Pigs also have trichinosis, which is why pork is always has to be cooked all the way through, and at a certain high temperature.

[@kekistanimememan170]

@@peterresetz1960 also if transmission occurs from human fecal matter the host may have the tape worn end up in places other than the intestines. This can include the brain.

[@arthas640]

I thought they were just strings or grass. This is far worse.

[@ceinwenchandler4716]

YES! Howard is back! I've only seen the first few seconds so I don't know if anybody else is, but, for the record, I think the new style of animation is good, but I'm really rooting for the return of all the characters! I don't care how they're animated (or even if they are at all, they could just talk offscreen), I just want the hilarious interactions between Brew, Chill, and Grill back. Please?

[@bakugobaby3100]

This ❤ i miss em all prefer this way with everyone made the vids so different from mainstream. Please bring it back 😢

[@gregfam6250]

Couldn't agree more!

[@UniformGem2]

@@bakugobaby3100 Same, I liked it when it had all the other characters. Whatever happened to them? I can't find the last video they were in, only way I find them is if I check out way older videos. Can't seem the find the last one they appeared in

[@saddlebag]

Yeah, I really miss them! They added so much personality to these educational videos.

[@marty2035]

I do too!

[@mirthenary]

Bring the crew back ....please?

[@StompMom5]

With the exception of Howard. He's super cool😎

[@firegirl4707]

HOWARD!!! WE MISSED YOU!!! The banter between Brew and Howard I love it please do more of this. I miss classic brew this made me happy :)

[@garyjaycat]

Brew: Howard, pause! Howard: Why? Brew: He asked a question. I want to think about my answer. Howard: Unpausing. Brutal, I love it. Also, it warms my heart every time Brew says "Oh goodness" or just anytime our coffee man shows signs of emotion!

[@Laporch]

Ohoho the coffee machine came back ;) although not animated in old Brew fashion, still a nice throwback!

[@HeilRay]

Like watching somebody walk out the bathroom feeling so relieved, but they unknowingly got toilet paper stuck to them dragging on the floor.

[@HunterAero]

I expected this to be a brew video, either way it was a great video.

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Lol

[@allineedis1mike81]

The Bear. I was pretty sure this was just the result of a missing skydiver. Now that I know the truth I kinda wish my 1st assumption was correct.

[@arthas640]

Same here, I thought the bear just ate some string.

[@kam8754]

You would prefer it ate someone than have a parasite?

[@AznPrzsn]

​@@kam8754Obviously

[@yaboihaley6735]

I'm actually afraid of nematodes like a lot of people are scared of spiders. I don't often regret clicking on a video but now I want to boil myself to make sure there are no nematodes. :(

[@am6hours]

It's so funny hearing nematodes outside of spongebob. Honestly i learned it from tv but never heard anyone use it before. Definitely understand where you're coming from tho 😟

[@ferretyluv]

Back in the day on Animal Planet, Most Extreme had a list of the top animals most feared. #2 was spiders. Guess what #1 was? Parasites.

[@No__Vanity]

Dude these random goofy ahh voice ads in between the videos made me have 3 strokes

[@valentinewiggin7782]

Six to seven inches of rain per hour is incomprehensible to me. Where I live, six to seven inches in *a year* would be a lot.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Southern China is extreme but in Europe, Genua/Genova is getting a lot, exerbated by it being a steep mountain city

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

On the topic of tapeworms: Hi, clinical laboratory scientist here. I'm one of those people who test your blood, saliva, sweat, abdominal fluid, spinal taps, feces, urine, and whatever stuff they pull out of you if you're ever in surgery. The city hospital where I studied to do this strange career had a microbiology laboratory with an "O&P" (ova and parasites - eggs and creepy crawlies that live in and on you) lab. On the wall of the O&P lab was a list known as the "wall of shame." It was a list of all of the restaurants where the other scientists would no longer eat, based on the numbers of parasites found in people who'd eaten there. Lots of sushi restaurants and steakhouses. Before you think sushi can't be that bad, consider this: If just one piece of fish has fish tapeworm eggs on it, and it sits on top of a few other pieces, then they are all contaminated. Now, think of the sushi restaurants you know, and the person making sushi. The sushi chef rarely, if ever, changes his mat. He certainly doesn't change out his knife much. If one contaminated piece gets fish tapeworm eggs on the matt or the knife, guess what's on the menu for ALL of the sushi tonight, cooked or raw? Yuck. Steakhouses are a good source of all manner of worms. A lot of people who eat in them don't eat fully cooked meat (no judgment if you're not a well done kinda person), and if it's contaminated, then you get an extra souvenir of your time at the steakhouse to take home free of charge. Enjoy your new friends! It was bizarre seeing all of the pickle jars, mustard jars, sandwich bags, etc. with worms in them that someone actually fished out if their own feces. We, in the industry, applaud your determination and enthusiasm. Now, we implore you to think before you eat. I mean, we love your weird problems, but we'll do just fine without that MASSIVE lumbricoides worm you fished out of the toilet this morning after your trip to Cancun. All I can say is wash you hands, and maybe cook yourself something at home.

[@joshk.4470]

Do you have any recommendations on testing to see if you have worms, and if so, how to get rid of them?

[@CBrown86]

Quick question- housecats can get tapeworms and other parasites from eating mice, correct? Someone told me this doesn’t happen, and that cats prevent parasites by eating the mice.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

@joshk.4470 The easiest way to know is to get tested. We'll need you to get a cup from the hospital along with a plastic collector for your toilet, and you'll need to catch your feces on the collector and put some in the cup. We'll test it. As for how to get rid of any worms, we'll, we leave that to doctors. Funny enough, that Ivermectin that people were so ridiculously pushing for COVID treatment made us in healthcare laugh because it's horse wormer. How people thought that would get rid of a virus - which is nothing at all like a living worm, since viruses aren't even alive - was completely baffling.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

@@CBrown86 Cats get tapeworms. It's usually a kind that dogs get, too. But there are all kinds of tapeworms, and cats can get them, sure. Tell your friend to look up Dipylidium caninum. Kids can get this type of parasitic infection from an infected dog or cat. Cats most often get whipworms, hookworms, and pinworms, from what I've heard from friends in veterinary medicine and seen on real-life television shows about veterinary practices.

[@TacoNissan]

​@@CBrown86Cats primarily get tapeworms by getting fleas, then eating the dead fleas while grooming, because fleas carry tapeworms. Mice commonly have fleas, so when the cat eats the mouse, it also eats the flea, eating the tapeworms as well

[@Shiver-is-best-waifu]

13:04 Howard is savage😂

[@clarimm6675]

Ah great, I didn't want to eat any fish ever again anyway... thanks lol

[@randomclip174]

New Fear Unlocked!

[@thevenom2731]

I'm pretty sure they check most fish and cook them properly. I'll take my chances.

[@raccoons_on_rice]

Yay, he posted a video that actually interests me... Wait, that's every single video he has made.

[@Nikki0417]

Glad to see Howard back. Also, now I'm wondering how that last guy's car wound up in the pond.

[@InsanePickle24]

Looks to me like he just drove right in.

[@Randomness78]

how come there's no fences around it..

[@nnodify6391]

YAY WE HAVENT SEEN HOWARD IN SO LONG

[@doesbadthingsguy7677]

Yes! Another Brew Video!

[@I_SOL]

Amazing vid as always

[@Familliarsurroundings]

New York humans- “OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THIS IS TERRIFYING!” New York sea lions- “this is the best day of my life”

[@khinanovel7]

Rational fear database🤣

[@saphiremeadows4829]

Even though I was cringing through a lot of it this was actually not only informative but fun! Nice to see you again Howard!

[@Hershewed]

I couldn’t even get through the video, he really should just bring the old style back

[@nyotamwuaji6484]

The TV cant hear you But you can howard, you magnificent machine, You can.

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

If you don't already have enough and want to add some new body horror-related phobias to your repertoire of worldly fears and anxieties you need only watch ONE, that's right ONE episode of BREW Today! No charge to you! You'll be too afraid to eat, drink, sleep, shit or do pretty much anything else for the REST OF YOUR LIFE! GUARANTEED! Also: Canadian

[@DS-lt7fw]

I'm just thinking about the videos where a bear swims in someone's pool or climbs on their patio furniture and imagining them dragging those tape worms over everything. 😱

[@ghost_emoji]

The girl that picked one up with her bare hands 🤮

[@LockDOTspot]

This was a great video. Those bear tails were insane!

[@baltousprime7897]

Talk about a real life case of brain worm (which is related to my mother's least favorite scene from Wrath of Kahn)

[@Joshua-gt7pz]

Already saw this story, but burning the bar for your algorithm. 👍

[@maestromike91971]

I am a neurologist and neurosurgeon. I also work in medical research, trying to find new methods of healing, using a mixture of traditional medicine and herbal but people think because it’s durable it safe so they can take all they want but that’s not the case if you take different types of herbs , they can make you very sick !

[@pawsnpipes7493]

Thanks for making me fear my salad kit in the fridge. Lol

[@nxcolevy]

THANKS BREWWWW

[@ladygrayfang]

Why is the woman picking up the tapeworm with no gloves? Then starts playing with it? 🤮🤮 eww gross no just no🤮

[@lguinily2748]

The iterations between brew and howard is hilarious 😂 more please

[@fahdelsan]

Why no one talking bout brew's new video style, i personally prefer the previous ones, but this is also fire

[@Khornecussion]

We made too many jokes about brain worms. Look what we've all done.

[@randomgeneration7781]

The day's young, how about those earworms eh???

[@Absbor]

impressive animations!

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

All these plagues and floods; someone needs to let somebody's people go

[@LikaLaruku]

Howard is back!☕

[@OsDijider66]

Finally Brew you are doing good spaghetti business .

[@axallotofquestionsMusic]

The day brew covers the first case of cordyceps fungus I'm out 😂😂😂😅

[@IWantToPetYourDog]

Cordyceps is actually sold as a supplement, not yet a human "infection". My immunity capsules have it.

[@ericalexander5890]

To avoid bear-to-human transmission, I've stopped fighting bears.

[@thegiantbeagle]

Hello my people and hello Brew’s people

[@rememberthatoneshow3216]

The forbidden pasta

[@ashproof]

Google can update the sat images for a car being removed but has no areal images of graceview church in tomball Texas?

[@ashproof]

I guess they updated it in the last 6 months, finally. I don’t go to church, that’s just where they tried brainwashing me.

[@HeilRay]

Tapeworm dragging from your butt? How emBEARASSING!

[@maestromike91971]

I like these kinds of videos.😊

[@niki_0107]

I was eating...and parasitic worms are my biggest fear...thx 😂

[@DoctorX17]

Well that was unexpected

[@domomitsune5920]

I love watching a brew video. This one's a little baffling and entertainment at times. But nature is crazy that way.

[@loner1878]

I'm so glad I've always hated seafood.

[@UmatsuObossa]

The last one reminds me... I'm in a FB group for birders where they post OTHER weird things they've found. Someone literally found a large hardshell suitcase (definitely big enough for a body) overstuffed with a bit of black trashbag visible bulging from one corner...it was close enough to a body of water that it could've washed up from there, and partly concealed under bushes. The person was wary enough NOT to open it but didn't report it to any authorities and people were arguing with me and belittling me for even suggesting that he should. This guy actually calling in the car he saw is so rare...TONS of people see suspicious stuff every single day and say NOTHING, and so many missing people cases go unsolved because of it.

[@everfluctuating]

dinosaur shrimp is an accurate name for them

[@jenniferhardesty9298]

The flood is crazy man

[@prettykittycakes]

I love this new format although the previous one wasn't bad. ❤ Thank you for another great video❤🎉

[@RedPlayer_1]

Awesome video style! Definitely want to see more of this

[@user-rh6ru5oz2o]

I prefer the old format that is more focused on one topic

[@Hershewed]

Same this format is so boring and unoriginal and not genuine compared to how his videos used to be.

[@TheLostOne172]

Oh dang howards back!

[@RedMartyr]

Obviously they would name a parasitic brainworm Robert. Ive never met a person named Robert that didnt make my brain hurt lol

[@ravenisbored9678]

Man, I missed Howard. Glad he's back!

[@professorplum3858]

Scary go round is also the name of a great web comic

[@dfjulesful]

Tape worms is somehow worse then some sort of mutant bear 🤢🤮

[@Lookitsa]

That's a cool looking shrimp

[@powerfulshammy]

6 to 7 inches of rain is normal here in the Philippines and Guam and Japan not New York and Hong Kong

[@brianwilburlee7568]

For once brew called Howard by his real name aka Howard instead of pots XD

[@GamerGabe876]

Someone needs to get this coffee maker some tools cause HE IS COOKIN’

[@ferretyluv]

I’ve never heard triops called “dinosaur shrimp” before. But it’s a pretty apt name since they’re living fossils.

[@bluevines1303]

Hola brew how are you

[@TheAllay7]

1:18 spider-bear

[@Herowebcomics]

There are more things to be WARY OF,not terrified of!😎

[@AbsoluteDark]

3D Howard is blowing my mind.

[@PUNCHEDPUNCHEDPUNCHED]

10:05 and still some people can't care to wash their vegetables 💀

[@Scrinwaipwr]

6:14 aw, so cute!

[@napoleonfeanor]

Some people have tried tape worms for weight loss, seriously.

[@jaydenfoong2260]

howard sounds so annoyed 💀💀

[@UmatsuObossa]

This is why you ALWAY want your sushi previously frozen and NOT fresh...

[@anjachan]

jep!

[@Cheshire.R]

like the vr update

[@AgentCelestia2]

What the (curse word) is that bear!?

[@FluffyNotUnFound]

came in 1 minute yippeee let me guess, no one has finished watching the video yet?

[@timvlogtv512]

how does our stomach not digest the parasite?

[@stevejohn7459]

Tough skin resistant to the stomach acids that’s why they’re not dead by the acid and also it makes its way down and avoids the stomach acid or digestive track as to being stuck in the acid or being pooped out like the bears.

[@WowUrFcknHxC]

Triops are so cool! I used to raise them.

[@IWantToPetYourDog]

I never took care of mine right being young, so they didn't live long.

[@Nets-king]

Short answer:Giant tapeworms

[@Duvstep910]

I like this format

[@brandonparents3203]

Need to skip a sponser I got you fam 2:54 Need to find a sponsor 4:01 vid is in reverse

[@twocvbloke]

I would have to play this video while eating, wormy bear bums are enough to put most off eating, but I was hungry so didn't look... :P

[@TimBielawa]

This video was a huge improvement over the last few!

[@eudy97]

6:36 Same

[@turboslow4761]

fun,but where sub, i cant hear with sub lmao

[@velconx15]

Thank God I am eating right now

[@ramenaddict1676]

And this is when brew started to become soulless trash.

[@Superlazygamer_2]

mr grizz when he gets parasites

[@TabAncho-cp4xi]

poor bears

[@bensoncheung2801]

Of course it’s worms!

[@FireIsNotHot]

You could see a lot of those worm in human if you visit country that have refugee camp.

[@yublydubly]

1 hour gang?👽