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[Formiga]

 

Some fellow ant keeper here has a signature that I've noticed today, it goes something like: "People are stupid. That explains a lot!"

I'm happy with that signature, it's long been a core philosophy of mine.

 

 

Thanks for showing up your head! Not for a whack, but for a petting.

Also thanks for the aphorism and the life lesson; and now I know whom to quote.

[ANTS_KL]

Reddit is honestly a cesspool for antkeeping. Even on the main ant subreddits there's very few experienced people and a whole lot of kids who like to think they know what they're talking about. Myself and some friends even made a new subreddit specifically for ID (r/antidentification) and it's even gotten swarmed recently with the reddit kids throwing out random species names for any ant they see. It's a lot of fun going through and removing all the posts with wrong IDs so that the poster doesn't get confused.

TikTok also seems pretty bad. Most of the larger "ant TikTokers" are either relatively inexperienced themselves, or dumb down the info so much that the general crowd of the app can understand and enjoy it. Which of course, fine, but it makes antkeeping as a whole look vastly different from how it actually is. This is the same issue that I have with AntsCanada over on Youtube.

It's so true. I once commented on one of AC's videos saying trap-jaw ants (he caught a trap-jaw ant queen recently) need substrate for their larvae and like 90% of people who replied said 'boost' and one of them even said I'm stupid.

I think I saw that comment. I kinda feel bad for you because most of the antsanada fans are uneducated kids that think they know a lot. It's honestly painful for me because I have never dealt with people like that much and it's plain annoying. I really hope people actually grow a brain or else humanity may very well be doomed.

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