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A Group Where We All Pretend to Be Ants in an Ant Colony is a novelty Facebook group members of which roleplay as ants in an ant colony, with posts relating to everyday obstacles ants face and "antifying" memes and popular culture phenomena. Created in June 2019, the group reached significant mainstream attention in April 2020 following a viral tweet.

Origin

On June 26th, 2019, Facebook[1] group "A group where we all pretent to be ants in an ant colony" was created. Members of the group made posts roleplaying as ants within a colony, referring to themselves as ants with a designated number (such as Ant #2031, Ant #45831 etc.), reporting about various occurrences within the colony and outside of it, interactions with humans and other ants and their other experiences with the world (example posts shown below).

Everybody R UN
help
Colony group picture everyone get in!

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In April 2020, the group reached significant mainstream attention, with a number of media reporting about the community. For example, on April 10th, 2020, The Verge[2] reported about the group. On April 14th, 2020, Twitter[3] user @agasramirez tweeted about the group, with the tweet receiving over 137,500 retweets and 532,000 likes within one week (shown below).

Millennial Mangkukulam @agasramirez Quarantine Day 31:I joined a Facebook group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony O Like Comment 00 765 View more comments. Write a comment. GIF Monica's Post roup where we all pretend be ants in an ant colony > LIFT 2h Like Reply PRIVATE GROUP - 145,334 MEMBERS LIFT 1h Like Reply 11:26 PM · Apr 14, 2020 · Twitter Web App

The mainstream attention towards the group resulted in its explosive growth, with the group growing from 145,000 to over 770,000 members within six days between April 14th and April 20th, 2020.

Lingo and Notable Memes

The Queen

Posts in the group often praise the queen of the colony, serving the ant queen being an important roleplay element within the community.

Spaced Out Comments

Members of the group usually comment on the posts with a single word with spaced-out letters (i.e. D I G, A T T A C K, P R O T E C T).

Various Examples

HELP ATTACC HORNET BITE! Murat Oziuk 2017
Folks, i found this lil fella, can we keep it?

Gonna go fight for the colony. Wish me luck.
Human did it again, run and protecc queen wiki How to Get Rid of an Ant Hill Boric Acid
Hello fellow ants, are you tired of digging? How bout doing something else? Its called Skyrim!

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About

A Group Where We All Pretend to Be Ants in an Ant Colony is a novelty Facebook group members of which roleplay as ants in an ant colony, with posts relating to everyday obstacles ants face and "antifying" memes and popular culture phenomena. Created in June 2019, the group reached significant mainstream attention in April 2020 following a viral tweet.

Origin

On June 26th, 2019, Facebook[1] group "A group where we all pretent to be ants in an ant colony" was created. Members of the group made posts roleplaying as ants within a colony, referring to themselves as ants with a designated number (such as Ant #2031, Ant #45831 etc.), reporting about various occurrences within the colony and outside of it, interactions with humans and other ants and their other experiences with the world (example posts shown below).


Everybody R UN help Colony group picture everyone get in!

Spread

In April 2020, the group reached significant mainstream attention, with a number of media reporting about the community. For example, on April 10th, 2020, The Verge[2] reported about the group. On April 14th, 2020, Twitter[3] user @agasramirez tweeted about the group, with the tweet receiving over 137,500 retweets and 532,000 likes within one week (shown below).


Millennial Mangkukulam @agasramirez Quarantine Day 31:I joined a Facebook group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony O Like Comment 00 765 View more comments. Write a comment. GIF Monica's Post roup where we all pretend be ants in an ant colony > LIFT 2h Like Reply PRIVATE GROUP - 145,334 MEMBERS LIFT 1h Like Reply 11:26 PM · Apr 14, 2020 · Twitter Web App

The mainstream attention towards the group resulted in its explosive growth, with the group growing from 145,000 to over 770,000 members within six days between April 14th and April 20th, 2020.

Lingo and Notable Memes

The Queen

Posts in the group often praise the queen of the colony, serving the ant queen being an important roleplay element within the community.

Spaced Out Comments

Members of the group usually comment on the posts with a single word with spaced-out letters (i.e. D I G, A T T A C K, P R O T E C T).

Various Examples


HELP ATTACC HORNET BITE! Murat Oziuk 2017 Folks, i found this lil fella, can we keep it?
Gonna go fight for the colony. Wish me luck. Human did it again, run and protecc queen wiki How to Get Rid of an Ant Hill Boric Acid Hello fellow ants, are you tired of digging? How bout doing something else? Its called Skyrim!

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