It's the most Gen Z snakebite ever documented.
A social media influencer was bitten by a diamondback rattlesnake in Florida during filming, saying “I'm cooked” before making a mad dash to hospital where he is fighting for his life.
David Hamblett, 25, an up-and-coming wildlife influencer, started filming right after he was bitten in the leg by the highly venomous reptile on Dec. 18, while he and some friends were searching some woods off the road on Sheard Island, WCJB reported .
“Hey, I'm cooked,” he said, pulling up his jeans to show his freshly bleeding wound to the camera in a video recorded after the life-threatening sting.
“What a meme man!” Gen Zer said as he turned the camera to show his smiling face.
“Let's get pictures of her first. I mean, we've already failed anyway,” the boy said calmly to his friends, poison coursing through his veins.
“Cold snake. Big diamond. 'GG,'” he said, using slang for “good game.”
He bites.
Hmblitt noted that the diamondback rattlesnake is “the worst snake you can bite in Florida” before turning off the camera and running back to the car with his three friends – who were in a state of dazed disbelief.
He was airlifted to UF Health Shands by medical helicopter, according to WCJB.
Another video shows Hamblett in agony, describing how he felt like his leg was going to explode.
He said doctors gave him 88 vials of anti-venom injected into his leg, which remained purple and disfigured.
The resilient adventurer remains in the intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital, where his wife works as a nurse.
“Internally, I'm panicking but externally, I'm reassuring him, 'She's going to be okay,'” Humblett's wife, Emma Renner, said, according to WCJB.
“My team here helped me run to the emergency room to be there as soon as the helicopter landed.”
Despite the ordeal, the positive-minded Humblet harbors no negative feelings toward his attacker.
“The snake is just doing what it does. It saw me as a threat, and was just trying to protect itself. I'm not angry at the snake, and I don't want anyone else to be angry at the snake either.”
Hamblett boasts millions of followers on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
