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There could be a new contender for the strangest thing to emerge during lock-down.
A Facebook group in which users all pretend to be an ant colony has grown to more than 1.8 million members since the beginning of Covid-19 restrictions.
The group titled ''A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony" has exploded from 100,000 to now boasting more than 1.8 million, its creator, Tyrese Childs, told NBC News.
So, what exactly happens in this group? Well members group role play as members of an ant colony, and post pictures of themselves carrying activities that an ant would, such as crawling on food and carrying leaves.
They then type actions such as "DIG," "LIFT" and "BITE" as they act out tasks in service of the colony's queen, with the motto for the page being ''all hail the queen.''
"We have so many user requests and pending posts that it has become a job for me," said Childs.
"I think people are searching for something to do right now. You can scroll so much on social media."
It also has a list of rules that guide the role-playing experience and bar any discussion of "human politics" in addition to hate speech and sexually explicit, gross or violent content.
"We have filtered out all the COVID-19 posts so it's like an escape," Childs said.
