Let There Be Ants!

Submission 21,554

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About

Let There Be Ants! is a series of multi-pane exploitable comics based on the Italian Renaissance-era painting God the Father that begins with God proclaiming the creation of ants, but upon hearing a disagreeable remark from an ant, God proceeds to create ant-eaters in spite.

Origin

The original comic features God the Father, a religious painting by Italian Renaissance artist Cima da Conegliano. In the comic, God goes on to create ants and an ant saying "Awesome, thanks God!" After God created ant-eaters, the ant says ''Dude… wtf?'' One of the earliest known posts of the comic appeared on dopl3r^[1] on September 16th, 2017 (shown below).

Spread

On November 25th, the image was reposted to Instagram by ifunnymeme,^[2] where it gained over 51,000 likes. The same day, a thread about the format was posted to /r/MemeEconomy^[5] suggesting users buy the meme as it had potential for use as a "something controversial" style exploitable (shown below).

Shortly after, exploitable variations began appearing on Reddit. On December 5th, a Trebuchet variation was posted to /r/trebuchetmemes^[3] where it gained over 5,600 upvotes (shown below, left). The same day, a Traps joke was posted to /r/animemes^[4] where it gained over 940 upvotes (shown below, right).