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The reason why I made this stamp is because I have seen a lot of people online thinking that this movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt1713476/ is real. So I would like to point out why it isn't.

But the documentaries are real:
-Yes the documentaries about all of the birds dropping dead and the millions of dead fish were real but they were not because of the isopods. This is a news story explaining what happened: www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wild… There are quite a bit of ideas as to what happened but none of it were due to isopods.

How do you know the government isn't hushing it up? It showed it in the movie.
-Do you honestly believe that the government would be able to keep something this huge a secret? Especially with the technology we have today. Word would get out very quickly from media, cellphones. Not to mention a lot of people have internet over their cell phones now so people would find out about it a lot faster then the government can take it down. People would tell their families, then families would tell their friends, other friends would tell other people, and so on. Something that big can't be covered up at all without any word of it getting up.

Another reason why the movie is fake is because the health department took too long to fix it. If an unknown illness broke out even in a small area a hazmat team would be all other that town in a heartbeat. The reason is because they wouldn't want this to leak out in other states so they need to figure out if other towns and especially cities or even other states could be at risk, what is causing it, where it came from, etc. This is a huge safety concern and they would quickly quarantine the area and check everyone and everything to stop it from being spread any further.

Are isopods parasitic?
Yes but not towards humans. The isopod is a type of crustacean and are in the same family as pill bugs. They date back to 300 million years ago so they have been around for a long time. The specific one mentioned in the movie is called the cymothoa exigua or the tongue eating louse. To quickly describe them, they destroy the fish's tongue and replace it with themselves so that they become the tongue. Yes just like in the movie but unlike the movie they do no further harm to the fish. The fish doesn't even though they are there. The fish even uses the parasite like a normal tongue. The isopod never harms the fish any further and they don't go after human beings. The only time they will hurt someone is if they try to pick them up, in which case they will bite them.
In some countries they are even a regular diet. (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa… yes wikipedia article.

So just to clarify, i sopods are not to be feared as long as you don't try to hold them because like I said. They bite. (except for pill bugs)
Also another reason why I like looking this up is because the movie made me a bit nervous as well although I knew it was probably fake from the beginning just because of the health department's reaction. I also like to look information up on horror movies when they say it's based off of a true story or events that took place.

So don't believe everything that you hear or see until you gather all of the information, and I looked up a ton of research and it wasn't only Wikipedia as well.

Description
The reason why I made this stamp is because I have seen a lot of people online thinking that this movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt1713476/ is real. So I would like to point out why it isn't.

But the documentaries are real:
-Yes the documentaries about all of the birds dropping dead and the millions of dead fish were real but they were not because of the isopods. This is a news story explaining what happened: www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wild… There are quite a bit of ideas as to what happened but none of it were due to isopods.

How do you know the government isn't hushing it up? It showed it in the movie.
-Do you honestly believe that the government would be able to keep something this huge a secret? Especially with the technology we have today. Word would get out very quickly from media, cellphones. Not to mention a lot of people have internet over their cell phones now so people would find out about it a lot faster then the government can take it down. People would tell their families, then families would tell their friends, other friends would tell other people, and so on. Something that big can't be covered up at all without any word of it getting up.

Another reason why the movie is fake is because the health department took too long to fix it. If an unknown illness broke out even in a small area a hazmat team would be all other that town in a heartbeat. The reason is because they wouldn't want this to leak out in other states so they need to figure out if other towns and especially cities or even other states could be at risk, what is causing it, where it came from, etc. This is a huge safety concern and they would quickly quarantine the area and check everyone and everything to stop it from being spread any further.

Are isopods parasitic?
Yes but not towards humans. The isopod is a type of crustacean and are in the same family as pill bugs. They date back to 300 million years ago so they have been around for a long time. The specific one mentioned in the movie is called the cymothoa exigua or the tongue eating louse. To quickly describe them, they destroy the fish's tongue and replace it with themselves so that they become the tongue. Yes just like in the movie but unlike the movie they do no further harm to the fish. The fish doesn't even though they are there. The fish even uses the parasite like a normal tongue. The isopod never harms the fish any further and they don't go after human beings. The only time they will hurt someone is if they try to pick them up, in which case they will bite them.
In some countries they are even a regular diet. (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa… yes wikipedia article.

So just to clarify, i sopods are not to be feared as long as you don't try to hold them because like I said. They bite. (except for pill bugs)
Also another reason why I like looking this up is because the movie made me a bit nervous as well although I knew it was probably fake from the beginning just because of the health department's reaction. I also like to look information up on horror movies when they say it's based off of a true story or events that took place.

So don't believe everything that you hear or see until you gather all of the information, and I looked up a ton of research and it wasn't only Wikipedia as well.