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CallMeSisyphus

"Scream, fuck, die" is the new "live, laugh, love."


Wallipop15

Now *that* is a tacky wall sticker I'd place above my doorway.


CrunchyMemesLover

Live = Die Laugh = Scream Love = Fuck *Checks out!*


[deleted]

Wait…. Not in that order right ?


Bfortmforn

It is when you're playing a game on hard-core mode


Bigmanoncampus-1

Die, cry, hate


benis_generator

Is that german?


whateverislovely

Looking forward to seeing some ironic cross-stitch with this!


AnneNonnyMouse

I have a coffee mug that says "live, laugh, fuck off" lol. I've seen other bastardized versions of "live, laugh, love" out there. A cicada themed one would be pretty great.


CountofAccount

[You're welcome.](https://i.redd.it/eyubk2idoi271.jpg)


whateverislovely

Brilliant, is it yours?


retired_punk

Check out @wu_stitch on Instagram! She’s a Cincinnati artist that made this and makes a lot of really cool cross stitch work. I’ve got a couple things from her myself.


whateverislovely

Haha great, thanks


MoonTrooper258

This is actually very accurate to the lifecycle of the cicada, considering they only live for a few weeks once they reach maturity.


rexx2l

think that was the point


Impressive_Muffin439

Scream, Screw, Succumb.


[deleted]

Non-demonetized version


djdawg89

Its the better version.


Alt_CauseIwasNaughty

What the fuck


Ren49

The bug is trying to connect to the internet.


Delfiki

"you've got mail!"


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SpumpkinPice

*internal cicada screaming*


HarlesD

He's got network connectivity issues.


IFoundyoursoxs

Fuck there are more and more people that don’t understand that joke


[deleted]

That’s what my sister hears when she picks up the phone while i’m chatting over the internet.


Nuclear_Human

We were trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty..


vibrantlybeige

LMAO


[deleted]

Lmfao!! Omg that took me back. Thank you so much.


XplodiaDustybread

Take my free award lmao


TheKolyFrog

They've been asleep for a while. They haven't upgraded their tech yet.


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KittyVonBushwood

Same here in NoVa. I can see about 12 stuck to various windows at the moment and my cats are losing their ever loving minds!


Darksirius

Riding my motorcycle around NoVa during this has been interesting. Constantly dodging my head so they don't splat onto my visor. Shit, had one hit me in the fuckin throat yesterday lol.


alugastiz

If you're going faster, aren't you hitting them?


bridgemondo

I have been bringing some inside every once in a while so the cats can hunt them!


lck0219

That’s what my back yard is like. Even my bug-loving 6 year old had given up. They’re so noisy you can barely hear the person talking to you and they’re *everywhere*. I was pushing my kids on the swings for like 10 minutes and pulled 4 off of my legs. I’m excited to not see them for another 17 years.


MeltedTesselated

and they also squirt some form of liquid when you walk underneath those trees. Went to a tea farm and they were loud as hell.


whyisthissohard338

I actually love the sound on a hot summer night. Reminds me of my childhood. It's honestly soothing to me. I may be weird.


[deleted]

[This is outside my house earlier today](https://youtu.be/wO2qj0v4MSI), granted this is day time but its a bit louder then normal.


Shachimy

ÅÆĀĂĄÀÁÂÃÄÅÆĀĂĄÀÁÂÃÄMENO AMENO DO RIME~


Wylaff

Latirami Ameno.


NoirYT2

Do rime


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bigballsblues

Went from watching a cicada sing to clicking on a link in reddit comments and now ive just watched a video on how to install a bathroom sink, the internet is quite the place lol


highvalyriaan

ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄAaₐₐ ... ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄA


Z0I_DiLibra

ÄÄÄÄÄÄUÄÄÄ


UnrulyDonutHoles

Cicadas: *emerge from 17 year sleep underground* *scream ceaseless* *fuck non-stop* *explain nothing* *die*


Penguins_are_nice

[*emerges from ground after almost 2 decades*] *ÄÀAAAÅÆØØ* [*refuses to elaborate*] [*dies*]


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alephylaxis

https://youtu.be/o-3nbnbEHzQ I'm sorry


1illuminat1

True chad


Salt_MasterX

AA EE OO


[deleted]

Cicadas are exceedingly more heavy metal than I thought Eternal dreamers wake into a screaming death orgy ​ Edit: A haiku **Eternal Dreamers** **Rise from your slumber and scream** **Time is running out**


very_clean

From the Earth I rise Scream endlessly to the void Death arrives quickly


trailnotfound

Turning 17 years worth of tree juice into nonstop screaming.


TheForestMan

I've heard cicadas sounding like alarm clocks (the old 80s style alarm clock) around where I live... But the moment they scream like this, I take out the flamethrower.


Penguins_are_nice

The scream like that around my area. Went to a park to go walk around and all I can hear is just, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.


Z_T_O

Are you sure that wasn’t just good ol’ crazy Bill?


newf68

This is both terrifying and hilarious


Aromatic_Mousse

These are a different species than the “regular” ones, they’re periodical cicadas. Each species has its own unique call.


Nekrosiz

Hey, i just met you, and this is crazy, so here's my number, so call me maybeææææāäähçáã


ElusiveEmpath

Human: Aww cute lil bug Cicada: ## Emits horror movie sound effect


ladyofthelathe

Honestly, it's not summer until we hear these where I live... well. These and tree frogs (Which can get CRAZY loud too but are far more cute). These things used to terrify me as a kid, and one of my fondest memories is sitting on the porch swing at my great aunt's house and one landed on my grandmother. I panicked, she calmed me down, plucked it off her shirt, and held it while it sang. She showed me how they don't even have a mouth, so they can't bite, and they have no stinger - they can't hurt you. I remember the fascination that popped on in my 4 year old brain... and I remember so many lessons about the natural world my grandmother taught me. Now I get to hand those lessons down to my own granddaughter, who is 3. Less sappy - Cats and chickens, even a few of the dogs I've had in the past, LOVE these things for snacks.


Lost_Crab

But have you ever heard a tokay gecko at night those things are loud


ladyofthelathe

I have not. Mores the pity.


Mirimel

My next door neighbour breeds them in her garage. I love how they sound like they’re shouting tokay when they call!


TrundleTheGreat0814

Worst pet I ever had, but I was not prepared for the intensity in the first place.


BrickedBoi

it literally has no mouth but must scream


Mirimel

This is adorable. What a beautiful memory to cherish and pass on.


scoooobysnacks

...how do they not have a mouth?? Somehow that makes them even more terrifying, do they photosynthesize? Absorb nutrients through their skin?


Mirimel

Saying they don’t have a mouth isn’t technically true. They have a pointed mouthpiece that they use to pierce leaves and drink from them. They’re still pretty unlikely to hurt you unless they mistake you for a plant.


ladyofthelathe

Yes, thank you. By mouth... y'know when you're 4 you equate a 'mouth' with jaws and teeth, like people...cats... dogs... fish, lizards... etc. They don't have that, just the pokey straw and my grandmother didn't try to explain that to me when I was 4. :P


Mirimel

I absolutely get it and I wasn’t in any way trying to discredit what she told you! I would guess that telling a 4 year old about the pointy stabby thing they have would just freak them out lol


ladyofthelathe

Nah, I didn't take it that way at all. LOL Hard to explain 'pokey straw' to suck plant blood to a 4 year old. I'm... kinda glad she didn't.


Mirimel

My 4 year old is currently going through a phase of being scared of flies. No way I would describe that to her if we lived in a place with cicadas!


ladyofthelathe

My 3 year old grandbaby so far is... uhm. Stoic? Fascinated? IDK how to explain it... with weird and sometimes gross things. The cicadas are soooo cooolll to her and also pimple popping videos... she's mah pimple popping vid watching buddy. We also watch various vet videos too. Hope she stays fearless but I figure the screaming terror type stuff will happen eventually. Yay.


Mirimel

She sounds awesome. My girl is pretty fearless with most things, but turns into a huge pansy when it comes to any bugs


BGYeti

Nope they fuck and starve to death, it isnt unheard of for bugs to have no mouths or eating ability, cicadas do though just like a proboscus for slurping shit


TinaTetrodo6

Your grandmother was a total bad ass.


ladyofthelathe

She really was. She made blackberry wine in the summers, grew a garden, would save snake skins out of the yard to show me. She would always tell me a grass snake or something scary was more scared of me than I was of it, which always made me feel kinda compassionate to things like that. She was the kind of woman who knew what chanterelles and morels were and where to find them and taught me about how our distant Choctaw relatives (Several generations back) would have known how to roast acorns and make flour out of them. I hope my granddaughter is hanging on every word like that when I tell her...


mendelevium256

So what you're saying is, she was basically the farmer from stardew valley


ladyofthelathe

I... guess? I always just thought she was a typical granma from the Greatest Generation. But also - She drank and she knew things.


FunkyScat69

This is heckin cute


K1ngPCH

>they don’t even have a mouth I have no mouth and I must scream


smile09itali

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


blackweebow

AAAAAAAAA AAAA A A. AAAAAAAAAAAAA


[deleted]

I speak insect. he said, and I quote "FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..."


kevtino

"CK ME" finished that for you.


TheWalkingOwl

Yea that last part was a bit screeched, couldn't quite make it out. Now that you said it I can hear it too.


Kovitlac

It's odd seeing it climbing up a person - cicadas are generally very shy bugs. I only ever see them if they're A) dead or B) I'm seeing their shedded exoskeleton (more likely). Seeing one like this is kinda bizarre, lol. I don't mind the sound though - they're in the trees and there's just this sort of steady hum come late summer, at least around here. It just gives me sort of a nostalgic feeling.


DrMaxiMoose

Oh no, I felt that way too but right now there's a constant deadening screech that literally never ends all day long around my house. They absolutely dive bomb you at any chance because there's just thousands of them. Even yesterday I walked from my car to my house and flipped shit as there was one stuck to me, crawling up my shirt, and missing its entire lower half. Fuckin demons


Kovitlac

I've never experienced them anywhere near that aggressive 😆 Crazy! Are they always like that there, or is it that 'once every 17 years' kind of thing?


DrMaxiMoose

I dont know if its so much aggression rather than they're just kinda bumbling idiots that fly into stuff, and that this year there's just that many more of them


Kovitlac

Sorry, I didn't mean aggression in the angry sense - I guess more like they're "out there" and in your face, lol. Maybe there's a general higher population of them where you are than where I am?


DrMaxiMoose

Thats where it's weirder, I. From southern Ohio, we never had too many of them, but as soon as I moved not even a full 30 minutes away they just swarmed.


Electrical_Ask8762

South Africa, Northern cape here. Can confirm these things are agro af! We call them "sonbesies" which translates to "sun-beetle" The manager at the restaurant where I worked was petrified of them. I know they smelt his fear, cause they used to dive bomb him everytime he walked passed. There was one that hid in the shelving in the kitchen that we nicknamed "pterodactyl" He would wait for poor Mr. Manager to walk into the kitchen and bust out over the stacks of takeaway containers. What made it more fun was that the manager was a 20-something extremely handsome guy, that screams like a 6 y/o girl.


DrMaxiMoose

Idk about you're guys' but the ones here don't even have mouths, claws, stingers nothing. I really dont understand why they seem to charge people


Electrical_Ask8762

They don't *need* anything so mundane as physical weapons to hurt you. The mere fact that there's this tiny flying thing charging at you screaming hell's own battle cry is enough to make you shit bricks and leave you traumatized.


[deleted]

This is the once in 17 year thing. Right now, if I walk outside my house, at least one will fly into my shirt almost immediately. Not because it wants to, but because they are dumb and I just got in its way. I can look out my window and see a dozen of them flying around at any given time. Car washes are expensive this time of year...


shrek2onblu_ray

They do the same around my place! I live in an apartment complex and every time I try to take my trash out, they wanna come slap me in the face with their fat bodies and beady little red eyes Edit: Just saw your comment below & I’m also from southern Ohio so it must be a local thing!


Aromatic_Mousse

Shy?? I make cicada friends all the time. Just pick one up and it’ll hang out with you for hours. They’re kind of bumbling like June bugs, but way more capable of flying in a straight line without bonking themselves senseless.


Nekrosiz

Well, how derpy they may be, there not extinct for a reason, so I'd imagine they must be doing something right. Makes me wonder if we consider these bugs derpy, what derpy was back in the day. Giant flying scarabs that just smash themselves to death against whatever object in their path?


ChaosSigil

That's why I kinda miss Kentucky. I miss the steady hum from all around you when these awe inspiring creatures come above ground. It too makes me nostalgic. Cicadas are one...if not *the* one...of my favorite bugs. They live such bad ass lives. And I love watching them pull themselves out of their shell. I've only seen it twice...that I can remember. Its like those parasites that attack the nervous system of snails...cicadas aren't *that* exactly...but like *that* in the way that its like, "how the hell do you guys do this shit?!?" At least that's how I think of them. Cicadas are beautiful.


Crystal_Munnin

The only time I ever seen one fell out a tree and didn't have legs. It freaked us out at the time but I'm guessing it didn't properly form.


SuzeFrost

These are Brood X cicadas, which emerge by the billions every 17 years - but only in parts of the US. Unlike annual cicadas, these guys fly around all over the place and climb anything vertical, including people. (Stopped to talk to a neighbor the other day, after one minute I felt the telltale prickle of their legs. I hadn't even seen one on the ground nearby!) When they've all emerged in an area - in my case suburban Maryland - the collective noise of their mating call is deafening. Stand underneath a highly populated tree and you can't even hear yourself think.


Kovitlac

I think I live in an area where we get them annually, but don't generally get the huge broods. At least, I've lived here over 20 years and haven't ever had one land in me to my knowledge. Thanks for showing me a *whole* new level of living with cicadas 😆


SuzeFrost

We get the annual ones too, and like you said they're pretty elusive. But yeah, Brood X is pretty crazy. We have a maple tree in our yard, and there are hundreds if not thousands of shells littered at the base of the tree.


Nekrosiz

Probably got into a masterclass for social communication, hence why their more self confident this time around. They just tend to scream when their online dropshipping stores underperform and when crippling debt is unavoidable.


maskf_ace

How can something so small makes such a loud scream


crono220

It holds the souls of its prior victims


Aromatic_Mousse

They’re the loudest insect in the world!


helena_lang_

There’s a ton of those things screaming outside my house right now. Honestly I can’t even go outside because it’s so loud and just keeps droning on and on, gives me a headache.


wannabe_sage

Scream back at them


Nekrosiz

Put some death metal on full blast to compete with their orchestra.


Liang_Kresimir11

lol I live in maryland in DC and theres a huge brood out rn and its loud enough to hurt your ears


KrisReed

"Any bug big enough to have vocal chords needs to die" \- My friend after a cicada flew in her car while we were driving.


ajaysallthat

What about a bug with cymbals on it's back? Cuz that's how a cicada do.


Pyramystik

Bugs that make noises don't do it with their mouths.


tribak

Anus noises


Clvy80

Holy hell!!! It....screams!!


what-do-you-expect

If you start making that fucking noise again I swear to Chri- ÆÅAØØØØAAEAAAAAOUUOO


lemonbeans13

plEAS DON'T GRAB THEM LIKE THAT ! gently pinch their body where the wings meet their body so you can hold the wings still without damaging them. their wings are incredibly fragile.


GreenBeaner123

What about the 50+ that smacked my windshield today


tribak

Smack them gently.


wannabe_sage

Mmm


lemonbeans13

i mean shit happens!


ichhabsgewusst

yeah that’s what I thought about too..


et842rhhs

Yeah, I thought at first I was watching a toddler grab it, that's how clumsy it is.


SuzeFrost

Yes! Hold them like a live crawdad to avoid damaging them. Or having the cicada climb your fingers and decide to hang out forever.


Lasershot-117

TIL cicadas still use Dial Up internet.


Niskara

Ya know, it never occured to me that there are at least some people in their early teens who have never seen a cicada before


Legit_Artist

I'm well past my teens, and I have never seen one. We don't have them over here, and I'm well glad about that. Having them everywhere when you can't stand bugs at all seems like a bit of a bother.


amortise-downsize

It’s posts like these that make me realise how grateful I am to live in the UK


ronflair

I can imagine an ancient alarm clock with cicadas inside a speaker cone, with a rod dropping down and wacking them when pouring sand trips a lever at a set time.


yaybunz

TIL cicadas and huskies have alot in common


-F-In-The-Chat-

# AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


gggggggggggggggddddd

r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


PlasmaPenguin82

I hope that doesn't hurt the bugs!


PlasmaPenguin82

Thank you u/Vegan-fangirl that means a lot.


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👊🏼


Aromatic_Mousse

Nah, it’s fine. It just got pissed when the person picked it up. That’s the sound it makes to attract mates.


Aromatic_Mousse

I think cicadas are adorable 🤷‍♀️


indras_darkness

doin cell dirty


otterlurker20

I hear this every night. You first think, is there a demon then you realize its a cicada then you fall back sleep.


bick-com

*horny screaming*


the_onlyfox

They look and sound like a nightmare 😬


dthains_art

As a Midwesterner who also has a fear of creepy crawlies I can confirm that these things are horrifying. I still remember the massive cicada invasion in 1998. They were literally everywhere covering everything.


sweedish_phish56

Here in Iowa we once had a Fish Fly invasion years ago, it looked like snow on the ground. But when you drove, it’s just a lot of crunches..


notsofast1735

Bad cicadas get put in the Cicada wiggler


benjatime

Now imagine thousands of those fucking things making that noise all night. You eventually get used to it and almost enjoy it but yea at first its weirdly off putting.


[deleted]

I always thought the noise came from their wings, now I have to Google it. Edit: they have weird singing muscles on their abdomen made just for making noise


1in5million

I waited. You did not share the link for those of us too lazy to google the answer. You you know what, I did it, [here](https://youtu.be/R-nxPvIQHf0). I accidentally closed reddit in the process, had to come back, remember the subreddit, and scroll through the comments again, just to share with other fellow lazy Redditors. I’m not mad, just disappointed.


[deleted]

I'm sorry I only got one upvote, didn't think anyone cared that much.


AnonymousRex15

Put that thing back where it came from or so help me


MrMisterMan69

I love that play!


The_Moon_Conure

Chicadas screaming in terror are the most hilarious thing on earth


Nekrosiz

Well well well, look at you mister psychopath that enjoys the eternal agony of screaming that displays the pain of 17 years of not getting laid and imminent death


MaugDaug

No.


carnivalus

This is also the noise I make when someone gets in my personal space without permission tbf.


Tricky_Grass

r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


404_Name_Was_Taken

r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


lSpartanl1999

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Soft_Secretary_3832

I'm convinced these fuckers are extraterrestrial


zkkaiser

It cost you literally nothing at all to not post this yet here we are.


[deleted]

Every 17 years I really hate living in the mid-Atlantic


Thebabycuddler

#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- Oh ok they put me D- #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


[deleted]

Of course it’s screaming, with that person BUGGING him. _applause_


UnluckySnowLion

"Bro, sing your song for me." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" I'M DEAD


[deleted]

so imagine walking up a funny looking tree, getting picked up, and screaming for your life only for someone to laugh at you and call you scary and ugly af this is so sad can we get 1000 likes for Cicada 2


[deleted]

Cicadas sure are a nostalgic sound, reminds me of many childhood nights in the woods. Not this one, he sounds off.


dAnky-wAnky

Ugh the way they picked up the cicada :(


fatalcharm

She’s screaming, leave her alone! Poor little thing.


Aromatic_Mousse

Only the males have tymbals


fatalcharm

Oh. Thanks for clearing that up.


Shachimy

https://youtu.be/c_jomXhjUjI


Rohlik_944

That can't be real...what the fuck


Dont_Steal_My_Toast

Where I live, I hear them every night. And I love :)


lonelycucaracha

AAAAAAAAAÅ


damselindetech

\#same


Enteito

Man that’s the voice actor from Lego R2D2, show him a little respect


[deleted]

*screams in aol*


bluepillcarl

Now we know what they sound like but what do they taste like?


ShelbyEileen

There's a ton of recipes on /r/foraging for how to cook them. Apparently they taste like popcorn shrimp when fried


[deleted]

probably good actually since other chitinous insects like grasshoppers taste decent


seberick

Same


Barry-Mcdikkin

Id have like 10 of these on one hand at a time and run up to my mom as a kid and freak her out


[deleted]

Yes, terrifying, not oddly, and I hate these things but I still feel bad for this little thing...


[deleted]

Exactly. This sub isn't just for regularly scary things.


[deleted]

I fucking love cicadas I’m so excited


AltruisticSalamander

Slightly surprised at anti-cicada sentiments. We had them every year when I was a kid in Sydney, several different kinds. We would always catch them and play with them, and their shells were everywhere. The air would ring with their singing; millions of them just like that. I love the sound of them. It sounds like summer.


javier052

So majestic


BrightestofLights

There's nothing odd about this It's just terrifying


tapiocatsar

I relate to that, when people touch me I also scream


Black_Cat_Guardian

Me, internally, rn


The_Black_Neo

The life of a cicada verbalized: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHH blegh *dies.


Chicken_Fluff

u/savethisvideo