A Facebook role-playing page titled ‘A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony’ has become wildly popular during the COVID-19 lockdown period, with almost 2 million members. We look at why people are pretending to be ants for ant-ertainment and escapism. 



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A Facebook role-playing page titled<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/facebook-groups-role-play-pandemic/612697/"> &lsquo;A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony&rsquo; </a>has become wildly popular during the COVID-19 lockdown period, with almost 2 million members. We look at why people are pretending to be ants for ant-ertainment and escapism.&nbsp;

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