Dude…
Ants are cute.
Gotta admit the way the meme crops the rest the face out makes it look metal as hell. That’s a great monster design.
This picture has no right to say it shows a face when it omits the eyes and jaws. It’s like posting a picture of human nose and saying what an ugly face people have.
Is no one going to comment on the “magnified five times under a microscope”? Five times? What kind of weak, low refraction plastic lens, cost of bubblegum microscope are you using to magnify your enormous monster ants?
It’s “less” frightening when you realize those red things aren’t the eyes, and the “teeth” are more like a mustache for its mandibles; like the other pictures in the comments that show them better
This picture is kind of misleading though. Much of the photo’s creepiness comes from mistakenly assimilating the red dots to its eyes. Ants have those big familiar insect eyes we are familiar with. Quote from Snopes:
This is a closeup of a section of the ant’s face but not the full face. In a text message, Kavaliauskas [the photographer] told us, “This is just the front part of the portrait […] the eyes are already in the shadow area. […] if the eyes are illuminated, all the mystery disappears and the photograph appears ordinary and uninteresting.”
