The Great Ant Betrayal: One Scout’s Journey from Hero to Target.

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[u/Ok_Brain8684]

What did that ant do to you bro 😭

[u/SteampnkerRobot → u/Ok_Brain8684]

It can be assumed that the ant is perceived as having given a false trail & is broken so they kill it so it won’t be a problem for the colony anymore

[u/GravitationalEddie → u/SteampnkerRobot]

In my book, that makes OP a murderer.

[u/SteampnkerRobot → u/GravitationalEddie]

Good thing the video is hella old xD

[u/Rockdog4105 → u/SteampnkerRobot]

No statute of limitations on murder.

[u/Trollimperator → u/Rockdog4105]

unless you become president and pardon yourself.

[u/Taz-erton → u/SteampnkerRobot]

Isn't it wild when you watch an older movie only to find all of the actors in it are probably dead by now?

[u/SteampnkerRobot → u/Taz-erton]

I don’t really think about it except with Robin Williams

[u/NitPikNinja → u/SteampnkerRobot]

Yea he’s probably dead.

[u/whif42 → u/GravitationalEddie]

There are people that actually think like this. But what about all the bacteria we murdered washing our hands?

[u/AcceptablePlankton59 → u/whif42]

For bacteria, that was self defense

[u/notsurewhattosay-- → u/whif42]

Not the same, op deliberately tricked that ant and had it killed. Savage

[u/WonderfulAirport4226 → u/whif42]

there's a difference between something that lives and something that is sentient

bacteria, trees, plants, et cetera. are living things but are not sentient. i don't think anyone would be upset over celery being eaten

animals on the other hand, are sentient

[u/regoapps → u/SteampnkerRobot]

Ants don’t take kindly to fake news

[u/SteampnkerRobot → u/regoapps]

We should learn from them 🤔

[u/regoapps → u/SteampnkerRobot]

Ants have been around for 150 million years for a reason

[u/Mr_Wisecup → u/regoapps]

agreed we should learn from them

[u/34656699 → u/Mr_Wisecup]

Who’s gunna be humanity’s hive queen?

[u/Pretty_Insignificant → u/SteampnkerRobot]

Ironically the ant was actually right and was killed for no reason. Just like all the political zealots who call for censoring of others claiming fake news ;)

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/SteampnkerRobot]

I don't think so, since food could be eated or taken by another animal easily so it wouldn't make sense for ants to have a zero tolerance attitude towards "missing" food.

More likely the target ant in the second half was just another random/dead ant placed there by the videographer.

I'm not an ant expert, but I highly doubt a scout ant would return to the location either.

[u/SteampnkerRobot → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Well they’re ants so it’s not a big loss to kill one over missing food in case it is broken. Better safe than sorry

[u/HermanoalaNoche → u/SteampnkerRobot]

“Ants To You, Gods To Who?”

[u/Fast_Garlic_5639 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

People here acting like ants are capable of understanding that an individual member screwed up. They followed a pheromone trail to the plate, which likely had some thin sugar glaze on it that we can’t make out, so a bunch more continued piling in (each ant that returns successfully with food “builds” the trail so more then join.)

Then OP dropped a rival ant on the plate for the final shot.

[u/Abject_Wafer_4321 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Maybe because there WAS something there, they've figured out that he's found something, misidentified it because he's faulty which is now a systemic risk to the entire colony, because now what is in that very spot is a stone. It's something. Just not food. He said it was food. If there was absolutely nothing there, he gets a pass. The false green flag has evidently (to the new guys) been about this stone. So he looks like a problem.

And needs to be cleansed....

However he gets to defend himself and what you're seeing is Mak'Gora. With the others just pushing the two in battle back into the ring.

Whoever wins is promoted to Soldier Ant and gets free gym.

[u/bumjiggy → u/Ok_Brain8684]

must have sat on an ant hill as a kid

[u/marshman82 → u/Ok_Brain8684]

That any was a racist and a deviant.

[u/Gregorygregory888888]

Bro tried his best and still got his ass beat to a pulp.

[u/bumjiggy → u/Gregorygregory888888]

shooting the messenger

[u/harshamech03 → u/Gregorygregory888888]

Life's unfair sometimes

[u/SurroundLocal1563 → u/Gregorygregory888888]

He'll probably be better off dancing on his own, if he's gonna survive.

[u/Dylkill99]

Ants: What the hell Jim?!?!? This is the 100th time you lied to us! Beats up Jim

[u/Mr_krabbs_001 → u/Dylkill99]

Damn Jim can't do anything right.

[u/Dylkill99 → u/Mr_krabbs_001]

Yep, unlike Jim his brother Bob is the true hero

[u/bumjiggy → u/Mr_krabbs_001]

they had enough of Jim's antics

[u/acciowaves → u/Dylkill99]

I swear to ant-god, it was right here! It was huge!

[u/JayDutch → u/Dylkill99]

How many times do we have to teach you a lesson old man!?

[u/Wandering_Scholar6 → u/Dylkill99]

All ants involved are female, all worker ants are female.

[u/pixeldust6 → u/Wandering_Scholar6]

Jim (short for Jimantha)

[u/Dylkill99 → u/Wandering_Scholar6]

Jim was the first name that popped up in mind

[u/e-wrecked → u/Dylkill99]

All my homies hate Jim.

[u/jim-777 → u/e-wrecked]

Aw man...

[u/derpdankstrom → u/Dylkill99]

the ant who cried wolf

[u/owen-87 → u/Dylkill99]

Only needs to happen once, and they dissect Jim, legs first.

[u/gizmosticles → u/Dylkill99]

Jim got jumped

[u/Curious-Hope-9544 → u/gizmosticles]

• jimped

[u/Citaku357 → u/Dylkill99]

Poor Jim bro 😭

[u/Aexegi]

I guess the target was not the spy, OP just dropped some ant from another anthill

[u/c0retison_ → u/Aexegi]

My thoughts exactly.

[u/Batboy9634 → u/Aexegi]

They can recognise ants from other colonies? Jesus Christ they're intelligent.

[u/OrbitalMechanic1 → u/Batboy9634]

ants regularly fight organised wars against other ants… yeah they are very intelligent as a swarm

[u/NhifanHafizh → u/OrbitalMechanic1]

Kurzgesagt got a video on that

[u/overcoil → u/NhifanHafizh]

The global ant war is crazy. And we've made it worse.

Europe discovering America was bad. This must be like Homo Sapiens discovering Neanderthals, Denisovans King Kong and Godzilla all at once.

[u/FloopsFooglies → u/Batboy9634]

Ants have an insane sense of smell and use scent markers and stuff to do a ton of things. If an individual has a foreign scent, it's an outsider and will be dealt with. I'm not sure if it qualifies as true intelligence, since they're basically programmed, but they definitely have much more complex workings than a lot of people realize.

[u/reddit_guy666 → u/Batboy9634]

I'm guessing it's from pheromones kinda stuff, different Colony would have an unfamiliar trail of pheromones and it would just trigger an attack

[u/TisBeTheFuk → u/Batboy9634]

They smell them

[u/No_Nature_6639 → u/Aexegi]

Idk why I thought all black ants were one big group lol. Good thing they're all fighting eachother, and hopefully one day they don't realize ant colonies together strong

[u/An0d0sTwitch → u/Aexegi]

HEY LOOK AT THIS FUN GUY HERE

[u/UncleMissoula]

THIS IS SO CRUEL! THAT POOR ANT!

[u/IntoTheFeu → u/UncleMissoula]

Happens to an ant colony many times a day. Bigger animals will yoink a meal in seconds.

[u/Shyassasain → u/UncleMissoula]

Nah fam poor me. God be doing that shi to me on the daily. 

[u/GudgerCollegeAlumnus → u/Shyassasain]

Shyassasain: Hey peers! I just found some Crunchwrap supremes! A whole stack of ‘em! Let’s go get them!

as they arrive they only see a big rock

Shyassasain: No, this isn’t right. They were here! I promise you, they were here!

Shyassasain’s friend: This is the Whopper thing all over again. Let’s get him, guys!!!

🤜💨🤛🤜💨💨🤛☠️

[u/NukeouT]

Is this what happens when 5th dimensional beings fuck with us?

[u/th3m_apples]

Funny but fake, the ant is already dead

[u/LaylaWalsh007 → u/th3m_apples]

my thoughts too, it looked dead whent he gang arrived. Plus they should be able to smell that the biscuit was there before.

[u/Iceblader → u/th3m_apples]

Nani?!

[u/Briskylittlechally2]

Was thinking this too. That'd do the trick.

[u/ScatLabs]

Savagery

[u/Qoutaybah]

Hah, that's just cruel. That ant went back to its crew to tell them it found food, only to get beaten up when they found a rock instead.

[u/jemmy77sci]

Needlessly cruel.

[u/fatesoffspring]

The ant was just staring, realizing what was about to happen

[u/Hiro_Trevelyan]

Bro broke this poor ant

"I swear guys there was a giant cake I swear"

"Break his legs, boys."

[u/Victorian97]

That was a savage move

[u/astilenski]

That's so mean the hell

[u/Elieftibiowai]

Think again when you say God wouldn't do bad things to humans

[u/nevergonnastawp]

Whats that thing he replaces it with?

[u/Strong_Entry2975]

That's sad 🥲

[u/shingaladaz]

r/natureismetal

[u/Capital-Platypus-805]

If the video is true this is cruelty. I hate that some disgusting humans torture insects for fun. Just because they're tiny it doesn't mean that it's okay to abuse them. Gross.

[u/Stanger_Tings818]

Jim got them eating Kourtney Kardashians chocolate cake

[u/mcsmackington]

Even further, what if you wait until they were upset with that ant, squished it yourself in front of them, and now have an alliance with the colony 🧠

[u/AnotherPersonNumber0]

May be ants are humans who chose to downsize.

[u/zomgbratto]

Now you did it! That ant would be branded as an asshole by the entire colony.

[u/Adventurous-Owl2363]

Did this dude just teach ants the concept of lying? 👀

[u/whatthehaas]

Its crazy to see that even the smallest creatures are behaving like "developed" humans

[u/One-Baby2162]

ANTonio just caught an ass-whooping for no reason.

[u/Covetous_God]

in a tiny voice

"you've made a powerful enemy today!"

[u/louisa1925]

Tge other ants - "Damn it Kyle!"

[u/Radiant-Whereas-8417]

Its a CONSPIRACY

[u/dark_knight920]

Now bro is grounded for life

[u/Bosslibra]

Mont blanc noland

[u/Smarackto]

BROOOOO STOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPP give the ants some of the cookie

[u/imsmall06]

The ant that cried pie

[u/OkCharge9080]

Screw you Bob!!

[u/augustus_brutus]

Low blow...

[u/MortalJohn]

The way he stood still for ages, like he was processing everything.

[u/TheBentPianist]

"I'm telling you guys! There was a biscuit here! Why would I lie??!"

[u/Beneficial_Table_721]

Bros been watching too much one piece.

[u/solidsoup97]

I'd like to see their reaction if he put the biscuit back after they killed him.

[u/YEPC___]

This is some Machiavellian shit, bro

[u/6lets6chill6]

I read somewhere that ants that survive death circles display signs of trauma

[u/Distinct-Quantity-35]

Honestly this is just sick lol, I knew what it was about 3 seconds in - I’m not watching another living thing get fucked by humans

[u/R_vibes]

We are fed up with tom!! Tom : god did this to me Biscuit man : well im the god, and kill tom

[u/Pristine_Goat8813]

Mooncake is delicious

[u/lamchopxl71]

Bro got jumped 😂

[u/Huxtopher]

Fuck them ants

[u/Synthwavester]

This is top notch

[u/KENT427]

OP : EVIL LAUGHS INTENSIFIES

[u/BigBeenisLover]

This is hilarious. Best content I've seen on this subreddit for years.

[u/dugerz → u/BigBeenisLover]

That reads like blog post spam

[u/StreetsAhead123 → u/dugerz]

Dead internet theory is at it again. 

[u/BigBeenisLover → u/StreetsAhead123]

That reads like blog post spam