YouTuber Rusty Cage has been going viral by spending over two weeks trying to kill a Lone Star tick he found in his body.
Rusty Cage is an American singer, comic book creator, and YouTuber with millions of followers spread across multiple platforms.
In a series of videos, the YouTuber revealed that he found a tick in his body and decided to subject it to numerous experiments, curious to see how long it would live.
Surprisingly, despite Cage’s efforts, the tick has survived even his most radical methods.
Tick survives loud music and drowning
In his first upload, Cage revealed he placed the tick in a glass of water, and after five days, it was still swimming around.
By the end of the week, the tick appeared dead, but after poking it, it started moving again, prompting the YouTuber to remove fibers that were preventing it from being its most active.
On day 9, Cage upped the ante, deciding to blast music at the tick, explaining that he had heard that if you play Mozart to babies, they grow up to become geniuses.
“By that logic, if I played the opposite of Mozart, I’d be able to destroy the tick’s mind, rendering it mentally sterile and incapable of reproduction,” he said, adding that he risked reawakening the tick’s brain.
After playing some mediocre music on big speakers, he moved the tick to a new dish and saw that he began to start moving once more.
In his most recent video, Cage placed the tick in a freezer for 24 hours, and while it wasn’t showing any signs of life, the YouTuber noted that death was a “gift that the tick has not earned and a gift that can be revoked.”
The viral tick saga has been viewed millions of times so far, but Instagram seems to be the biggest contributor, with some comments on his videos receiving over 50,000 likes.
Cage says he’s been working on an “indirect energy weapon,” so we’ll have to see what the future holds for the creator and this tick he’s been holding captive.
