Irish Influencer Stung By The World’s Most Dangerous Jellyfish While Filming A Post

Baila Eve ZismanApril 9, 2025, 11:44 pmNews >

Irish travel content creator Julie recently went viral for a video of her getting stung by the world’s most dangerous jellyfish.

On the first day of a three-day boat trip to the Philippines, Julie waded into shallow water to film a brand collaboration for her social media page.

In a TikTok, Julie shared, “I knew from the feeling this was a jellyfish, but I was hoping it wasn’t. I was very hot, squatted down, and I didn’t feel anything, but when I stood up, I felt a burning in my thighs and on my butt, and when the venom spread, it was so weird; I could feel it. Everything was just vibrating; it felt like it was.”

She said, “I think I was screaming for an hour; my voice was almost gone because I was screaming so hard, the pain was so bad.” She was quickly treated by an Australian nurse and doctor on the boat tour.

“The tour guide picked up the jellyfish, and it was the length of a man. It was bigger than me, and its tentacles were huge and completely transparent.”

A box jellyfish contains a neurotoxin that can trigger heart attacks or result in paralysis. Director of the Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services, Dr. Lisa Gershwin, shared that Julie was lucky to be stung on the leg, as a sting to the wrist, ankle, belly button or neck is known to be fatal. She informed, “It can take as little as three meters of stings to kill a healthy adult, and it happens in less than two minutes. For children, it’s only 1.2 meters… Not everybody stung by a box jellyfish will die, but if you’ve been stung beyond that lethal threshold, you’re statistically likely to.”

Following a popular media trend, Julie posted a TikTok that showed herself moments before the incident, writing over the image, “She doesn’t know it yet, but in this moment she sits on a box jellyfish…(most venomous on this planet and suffers excruciating pain that left her with scars…and long term extreme gut issues.”