That culture produced artifacts: screenshots of opulent ant galleries, blooper reels of worker ants getting stuck in doorways, hand-drawn fan art depicting stately queens presiding over salons, and long threads debating whether a pebble mosaic could be considered "high art." Strangers who met trading over a rare lacquered beetle shell sometimes kept playing together for months, their tiny colonies evolving in parallel like distant cities.
That culture produced artifacts: screenshots of opulent ant galleries, blooper reels of worker ants getting stuck in doorways, hand-drawn fan art depicting stately queens presiding over salons, and long threads debating whether a pebble mosaic could be considered "high art." Strangers who met trading over a rare lacquered beetle shell sometimes kept playing together for months, their tiny colonies evolving in parallel like distant cities.