10 Things Pop Culture and the Media Insist on Calling Zombies



To hear most people tell it, the zombie genre has peaked and is now in the twilight of its relevance but with a solid stable of zombie movies still being produced every year. The Walking Dead universe branching into numerous spin-offs it, like its antagonists, will never die. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world around us where anything and everything that even remotely plays with the same tropes is immediately labeled a zombie.

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32 thoughts on “10 Things Pop Culture and the Media Insist on Calling Zombies”

  1. Early this century, while I was living in Minnesota, I experienced a zombie hurricane. Its name was Otis. It came from the Pacific, entered Mexico, turned northward, and weakened nearly to the point of extinction. It merged with another storm and revitalized. When it hit the Twin Cities it did extensive damage. That might be the only hurricane that Minnesota ever experienced.

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  2. You didn't mention the zombie star! Astronomers used to believe no large star could survive after going supernova, that that was the end. Then some theorized it was mathematically possible going supernova might not completely kill a star, but no one found any evidence until just a few years ago. Now there are a few recorded cases.

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  3. Damn, only weed in his system? Doritos could have saved a life that day! Ever had the munchies so bad you stripped down buck naked, ran through Miami and ate a guys face? Florida man has

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  4. #9 – Cross species transmission (CST) and/or cross species contamination is extremely rare, but exists.
    With about 8 billion humans, nothing has happened. Yet. Maybe.

    "Fungi live in air, in soil, on plants and in water. Some live in the human body." … "Fungi can be difficult to kill." Medline Plus

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  5. 2022: we had a zombie Storm early this yr. Don't recall the name but it ran up north over or close to Bermuda then NE and close to the UK as it weakened then turning south and coming to life again for a day or two.

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  6. The bath salts one is because One of the first incidents early on someone hopped up on them bit another guy like ripped a chunk out out of their forearm (and if you're wondering yes this was in Florida) which does admittedly sound kind of zombie like

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  7. Zombie Government didn't make the list? Where a bunch of useless, braindead morons sit there consuming taxpayers' money while doing no work in return, all while the people suffer as a result, just as the tories are doing… 😛

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  8. There's an insect in New Zealand called a Weta that has similar anti-freeze properties to that Alaskan frog but it doesn't affect its brain, if they're frozen too long the brain dies and turns to mush but they have a backup brain of sorts that survives and allows them to move around and breed.

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  10. An editing error just ten seconds in. Wow. I've seen student films with more care and attention, and it's not like they're getting however many thousands of dollars per video they drivel out like this channel.

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