I think about the ant hills on my lawn. “And those are worth talking about.
"In this group we are ants. Many good workers lost. I think of an ant, feet under the ground, standing before a crowd of fellow insects, somberly announcing “Death water came from the sky today. I am a lurker in the ant colony group. "For some reason, we get a big kick out of it," said Parker, 40, a mother of three. Wednesday arrived without fanfare but soon revealed itself to be momentous for the ant colony.A human family had spread out a blanket, covering it with sandwiches, chips, chocolate-covered pretzels and a refreshing fruit plate. It’s silly, but I’ll admit: I breathed a sigh of relief. I post the occasional comment, often a variant of “BITE.” But mostly, I sit back and watch it unfold. Or oddly wholesome... we haven't quite decided. “We’re trying to keep the group pure.”While some ants might be looking for a distraction, others post research on actual ant behavior.
One of the ants posted a photo of the picnic to Facebook with the caption “HUMAN HAVING A PICNIC WHAT DO WE DO.” Soon, more than 2,700 fellow hive members posted commands: “STEAL,” “INVADE,” “BRING TO THE QUEEN.” Presumably, Her Majesty enjoyed quite the feast that evening.The concept is as simple as the rules.
Turns out, there’s a hilarious Facebook group where people pretend they all belong to an ant colony and it’s just a pure work of art. It’s a place where the rules don’t change, the actions don’t change and everyone “works” together.
They were out looking for something different, and we just happened to be found,” Childs said. “We worship The Queen and do ant stuff. There’s “A group where we all pretend to be boomers,” “A GROUP WHERE WE ALL PRETEND TO BE DRAMATIC TUMBLR USERS” and “A group where we all pretend to work in the same office” (“Who the fuck stole my stapler?”).
It tells us something about our society.”Many group members, for example, long referred to the various ants with male pronouns, but Baudier points out that “ants are really all about the ladies.” Worker ants in reality are female, so when group members referred to them as male, they “reinforced this idea of males being the ones that work,” she said. But there’s something special about the ant colony group. “BITE,” writes another user.
And everyone knows Then came the double whammy — a viral tweet about the group and a pandemic.