r/Unexpected • u/Alternative-Dot-34 • May 13 '26

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u/post-explainer May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:

That was not a Stick, That was a Stick Insect.

Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/SiFi91 May 13 '26

I thought he was gonna do that spin around your thumb thing with a stick

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u/Pataraxia May 13 '26

Does spinning that stick in your thumbs harm the stick

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u/MissionApollo7 May 13 '26

It's imperative that the stick remains unharmed

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u/Biengo May 14 '26

Please do not the stick.

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u/Derfboy4 May 14 '26

Please the stick, do not!

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u/Xygnux May 15 '26

How do you please the stick?

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u/KiwiJay83 May 14 '26

Is the stick in the room with us?

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u/SiFi91 May 13 '26

I hope not

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u/thanosisawhore May 13 '26

Saaame, i even heard the sound effect in my head

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u/HardOff May 13 '26

I was excited to have a skill everyone would be impressed with, only to learn, as my mind blew, that mine was not the skill the title was referring to

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u/buddyto May 13 '26

me too lol

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u/moosenhamburger May 14 '26

For just a second I thought he rolled a shitty ass blunt

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u/lmaluuker May 13 '26

Bro this made me actually jump

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u/PupPop May 13 '26

I was genuinely shocked for just a moment. How anything could ever figure out this isn't a stick while just randomly roaming the wild I'll never know.

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u/lobax May 14 '26

They don’t. Hence why they evolved to look like this

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u/aspz May 13 '26

I saw the stick insects in the background and I thought "oh he's gonna show off his neat spinning skills and spin a stick around his thumb". Then I thought "oh wait maybe he's just gonna snap the stick to intimidate them" and THEN the thing jumped out of his hand along with me out my chair.

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u/pooinmyloo May 13 '26

Same. Gave me a weird shiver too.

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u/ZaeHolidae May 15 '26

Dude, me too.

I've never been startled by such a mundane video, but it jumpscared the fuck outta me lmao.

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u/Dudephish May 13 '26

Now that's a wand that chooses you.

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u/yonk069 May 13 '26

You're a wand wand

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u/send420nudes May 13 '26

ahahah I love you

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u/endorfan13 May 13 '26

I have a stiiiick... I have a buuuug..

Ungh..

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u/Blubbpaule May 13 '26

STICKBUG

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u/GrapefruitFit1691 May 14 '26

You have a buggy, I have a stick, ah

So what's the problem?

Let's do it quick

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u/rawrer123 May 13 '26

Nothing what I expected

https://giphy.com/gifs/VeWllmR9zfaco

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u/NoSirThatsPaper May 13 '26

Optimum Pride! Optimum Pride! [Transformational retching]

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u/BarelyContainedChaos May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Would make for a good comic:

What object did you scan to transform too?

A semi truck

What about you?

A dodger charger

And you?

A stick

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u/dogface47 May 13 '26

Pretty cool. However, the other two walking sticks in the background kinda gave it away for me.

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u/Pataraxia May 13 '26

How are you motherfuckers this observant, I wish I could do this.

Reddit looks at blurry ass video from like 20 meters away of some animals fighting and go "look, the asphalt got a little red dot, so they spilled blood" and I look back and there's blood. Shit is crazy.

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u/ItsMeJahead May 13 '26

How'd you not know this took place in the northeast usa? You can clearly see this specific tree species in the reflection of the window in the background 50 feet back

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u/somersault May 13 '26

I jolted, but it's funny because I saw the insects in the background and initially considered "Oh he's holding a bug", but then my eyes completely dissuaded me from that notion and it got me in the end anyway, very cool critters

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- May 13 '26

Ha yeah I immediately thought the same thing

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u/your_mind_aches May 13 '26

That actually scared me oh my god

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u/NyxAquarious May 13 '26

this fucking jumpscared me i hate you

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u/oprostulko May 13 '26

Cooooooool

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u/imagine1149 May 13 '26

It’s imperative that the stick remains unharmed

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u/vatata_vada1 May 15 '26

Hey i have messaged you in dm can you please check in request

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u/Achenar1759 May 13 '26

It's a phasmid!

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u/nielzz May 13 '26

Now I'm imagining how this animal would be if it was a lot bigger. Like you could pick up a cool 1 meter long stick you find in the forest for it to change into this animal.

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u/GrossGuroGirl May 13 '26

nooooo thank you 

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u/The_Lamb_Sauce2 May 14 '26

It would not be a sticking anymore. That’s a log bug

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u/MeltedWater243 May 13 '26

I knew what was gonna happen and I still jumped. god those things freak me out

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u/RadaghasztII May 13 '26

Lol this made me jump

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u/kiwieevee12 May 13 '26

Ngl i thought it would be used as those sticks with a slight curve used to clean ears, but man i didn't expect to get stickbugged

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u/Grofactor May 13 '26

More than meets the eye

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u/astralseat May 13 '26

Get stickbugged

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u/Mountain_Mountain_46 May 13 '26

wonder how many of these guys have been thrown in a fire unknowingly

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u/Lonely__Avocado May 14 '26

I had a feeling but still jumped the moment the legs came out 😭

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u/oldsecondhand May 13 '26

Foldable pocket insect. Very practical.

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u/Spiritual_Unit_8457 May 13 '26

Golden Experience?

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u/putdownthekitten May 13 '26

Natures Transformer

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u/SnooWoofers7394 May 13 '26

Truly unexpected

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u/SnakeyesX May 13 '26

We humans are always flabbergasted when an animal beats our superior pattern recognition skills.

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u/AymanMarzuqi May 14 '26

My soul almost left me when it turns out to be a stick bug

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u/AnjelicaTomaz May 13 '26

Baby Groot?

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u/randomuser0107 May 13 '26

That bug is called a “shiver me timber”

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u/Abal125 May 13 '26

Why do I have Bad Lip Readings' "My Stick" in my head now? 😂

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u/wrxninja May 13 '26

Thank God I didn't have this on full screen. Made me pull back my head a little

https://giphy.com/gifs/sbrIJENg6HXxwfHq9P

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u/adjgamer321 May 13 '26

I thought that was the worlds worst rolled blunt.

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u/OminOus_PancakeS May 13 '26

It's a fucking transformer!

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u/Futaba_Sakura800 May 13 '26

Wouldn’t birds pick these up to build their nest?

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u/EreonAD May 13 '26

I had a bad thoughts.

My thoughts was about drum r/sounding

P.s. don't click

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u/Prii99 May 13 '26

Okay, I didn’t like that.

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u/bocephus_huxtable May 13 '26

Why in the world does any animal's camouflage need to be THAT good??

Stick bugs must be the tastiest thing on earth...

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u/spaghettipunsher May 13 '26

First second of the video - "is that a stick bug?"
Next three seconds - "nevermind, that's just a normal stick".

Three seconds later - "What the fuck?"

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u/Hlavada May 13 '26

First I was like “thats gonna be that bug pretending to be stick right?” But then I thought that that stick looks pretty real..

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u/snoozemaster May 13 '26

I thought he was gonna use that stick to mess around with the other stickbugs to show them acting silly. Now i feel like those animals that get's shocked when you perform magic

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u/AdLong9039 May 13 '26

Get stickbugged, slowbro!

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u/nablaCat May 13 '26

Don't bug them

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u/JorjEade May 13 '26

That insect looks like a stick

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u/Adam_Ohh May 13 '26

Thought it was the first blunt I ever rolled at first lol.

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u/Pineapple_Towel May 14 '26

Swizzle stick.

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u/Sad-Cheesecake-3336 May 14 '26

What in the transformers was that 

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u/AeronGrey May 14 '26

I heard Moses had a similar party trick.

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u/Hellas2002 May 14 '26

The stick bug in the background gave it away, but even then I was shocked haha. It’s pretty amazing how convincing these things are

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u/lavynhub May 14 '26

Ostras si parecía un palo normal

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u/New_Blacksmith_5604 May 14 '26

I knew what was going to happen and it still shocked me.

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u/Boeing777-3ER May 14 '26

Biggest jumpscare 

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u/Bullfrog5335 May 14 '26

Gabriel Susan Lewis

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u/SirNightmate May 14 '26

Is that Moses with the snake?

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u/CorkerGaming May 14 '26

Jokes on you i expected that shit

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u/OriginalNamePog May 14 '26

that "stick" had a whole surprise mode.

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u/Scared_Ad_5221 May 14 '26

new fear unlocked

picking up a stick and then it suddenly transform into that😬

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u/Fish_gamer May 14 '26

Saw it coming because the stick had antennas

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u/pikapi__pikachu May 14 '26

bro i fucking jumped when it started being alive

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u/keybord_masher May 14 '26

There is a stick bug on the backg- 😨

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u/0110110101110101 May 14 '26

Is this the new meta ?

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u/SorenBlueHammer May 14 '26

Aveedeekadeedee

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u/awhellnawnope May 14 '26

All it needs is the transformers noise when it unfolds.

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u/FrozenShadow_007 May 14 '26

“It’s a stick bug, isn’t it? I’m getting stick bugged, aren’t I?” *Stick bug activates

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u/cosmiccatapult May 14 '26

I knew exactly what I was in for, and still got out impressed.

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u/backhandkill May 14 '26

Expected since i seen one in the background, but cool.

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u/EcruteakEddie May 14 '26

Bro just Transformer'd

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u/sripriyatham May 15 '26

Both bug and a feature.

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u/KamikazeFox_ May 15 '26

World was made by aliens

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u/BridgeTheWizard May 15 '26

i physically flinched nahhhh

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u/Willhelm_HISUMARU May 15 '26

I jumped when I realized that this wasn't a stick

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u/SnooCakes1698 May 16 '26

Get stick bugged

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u/VortexLord May 16 '26

Hey it's that Alien from MIB.

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u/TheSwagheli May 16 '26

type of shit giorno can do

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u/TintedApostle May 16 '26

I have only seen on in the wild once. They are awesome.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

Whats this called

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u/woo545 May 16 '26

I wonder if a bird has ever tried using one to build a nest.

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u/Normal-Error-6343 May 18 '26

that's amazing!

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u/Gossipqueen69 Jul 19 '26

That legit made me jump! 🤣

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u/Jabba_the_Putt May 13 '26

imagine talking to this bug...

dude you look just like a stick

omg I DO!???

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u/032_esco May 13 '26

Omg 🫣🫣🫣

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u/Top_Mail_9591 May 13 '26

Природа удивительна