I HAD TO REUPLOAD THIS BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyhow thank you for watching, big sad I had to delete the other one. Also if you want to support the channel heres the merch link! www.roanokemerch.com
Information correction: Eusocial insects aren't actually "driven/controlled by the queen" in any way. That's an old assumption we made based on human hierarchies. The queen of a eusocial colony is basically just a glorified egg sack, with no ability to control any other members; and in fact, if the workers sense that the queen is sick or has stopped laying eggs, they totally can and will kill her and raise a new queen larva. The very cool thing about this is it means that the intelligence, problem-solving, and structure-building of the eusocial insects is an *emergent property* - it's the cumulative effect of a whole bunch of unintelligent individuals following simple rules, acting together. Each individual worker emits pheromones, and responds to the pheromones it encounters, and the colony as a whole behaves based on the proportions of pheromones among its members. It's truly fascinating stuff, and in my opinion, an even cooler and scarier premise for a horror movie!
9:06 I graduated from a college in a super rural part of Colorado and one of my biology teachers would take us out on the range sometimes during the summer to find dead cows to rattle to show us how the decomposition worked in a semi arid desert. Not even close to the strangest part of that school but I loved it.
Roanoke makes some of the most rewatchable stuff on youtube. I didn't notice the background music in the video is "the ants go marching one by one" the first time lol
Everyone thinks ants are cool until you find them in your house. Then we all get possessed by that primal instinct of "hate anything that isn't human." Keep up the banger content, Roanoke!
@@keigofae1081 So you starve them, send secret police ants after them if they speak out against you in ant, put them in ant gulag, and kill those that are against you?
I go by the simple philosophy of "stay in your place insect" I'm actually fine with spiders, as long as they stay in their web in the corner eating flies. The flies, while a pest, also can't help but spawn in trash, they literally can't help it because they are nature's cleaners. Ants however can survive just fine outside, so it's on sight if they try to come inside. Mosquitoes too, can go get fucking bent
I remember watching this on the syfy channel way back when. It looked as cheap as most of the movies on that channel, but that scene where the swarm is crawling around wearing that woman's face was genuinely well executed and unsettling. It's the lasting image I have from this movie
Yeah thats how their movies are now super cheap cgi used to be better back when it was SciFi had more practical effects than solely going for cheap cgi lol
I am so lucky to live in a society where my lack of any kind of averse reaction to scuttling things doesn't immediately get me killed. My reaction when I see a spider or centipede is more of an "aaw" than an "AAAGH!", and if I lived in Australia, that'd get me killed twelve times before lunch.
Aussie here and im the exact same- i LOVE (most) Spiders! 😂 We get taught from a very young age at school which animals/insects are safe, venomous and poisonous though! Spiders and most of our insects are the backbone of our ecosystem (here expecially), without them so many other animals would go hungry! and without spiders eating the bad bugs we would probably all get sick or injured 😅
@@aliiien23 still doesnt stop bricks being shat when a huntsmen drops from the roof onto you when laying on your bed. or when one decides to sprint at you under the toilet door.
If you watched the 2018 series "Nightflyers"; in an outtake of the production they were going to be getting the actors used to the robots on set. There was a robot whose purpose was to travel through airducts to flush out escaped lab animals or perform minor repairs. This thing was built on the lines of a spider, because of course it was. It was a puppet mostly but the actors got quite the scare when told this is what you are going to have to be afraid of and the damn thing scuttled forward much faster than anyone had expected it was capable of.
So in other words, these ants are essentially the Hunters from Halo. The Hunters are really a colony of worms that can form bodies from material, usually the material the Covenant give them. That is how they take on the appearance we are used to as they are actually a colony of worms controlling material. They are also the real pilots of scarabs in the game and that makes these ants more terrifying if they can make that. Imagine a giant scarab being controlled by these things shooting more of itself onto people in a massive beam. My God, that would make the Flood tamed in comparison.
Ants don't actually follow orders from the queen. They all produce different pheromones based on what they experience at the moment: danger, hunger, cold, nearby food, etc., which mixes into a more complex communication network. Ants just react to all the pheromones in the area, either following the strongest one, or they do something based on a more compicated weighted average of sorts. The queen is just as much a slave to this as any other ant. Her programming is just slightly different. Instead of *explore when hungry*, hers is *stay at home and lay eggs."
@@AaronSoul725 Oh, definitely. Search for *ant death spiral* if you want to see what a "glitch" looks like in the ant world. This happens, when too many ants are trying to get home, but hit a loop. As the inbound pheromone trail becomes stronger than the real one, they can't escape anymore and run around for hours.
@@AaronSoul725 Yes. People’ve done that in certain experimentations, and many bug traps rely on this, actually - say, an ant gets stuck in the trap, releases ‘danger’ pheromones, triggering more ants to come to try and fight off the danger, causing more ants to get stuck and more pheromones to be released. Eventually though, the trap will stop working as the ants learn not to attack, but to avoid whatever that thing is.
You adding a lot of this science to all this creative work to help explain or bring theories is why I stay watching this channel. I take anyone’s “scientific authority” with a grain of salt On RU-vid but you keep everything pretty grounded and state when you are going off the rails. Keep up the great work!
Looking at these ants, it seriously gives me some vibes on the zombies from the movie World War Z. They would cling to each other to climb buildings/walls and bring down helicopters. That stuff actually scared me when I first saw it.
I remember half watching this a few years ago and somehow missing the part where the ants actually killed anybody, so when they decided to destroy the sapient ant colony I was outraged that the first other intelligent species we've ever found was exterminated on pure xenophobia.
We got you! Keep your head up, man. You and I are going through the same thing, and I can empathize with the valley you've been forced into. Hang in there, as time will offer the opportunities needed to recover. Take the high road out, brother.
He'll state it plainly when he's ready, otherwise I'd elaborate. But if you go back through his late three or four full videos, you'll understand immediately.
@jacaredosvudu1638 Some kind of scavenging from animals would be my first instinct. The remains not being scattered would make me think it was most likely smaller scavengers. I don't think I'd be able to figure out it was ants specifically in that scenerio, or that they were killed by the same thing that ate them. I'd probably assume they were killed by some other means like exposure and then scavenged from after. Without proof of another person/group of people I don't think I'd jump to murder, and I definitely wouldn't think that a human was responsible for the state of the bodies. I'm not even sure how a human would accomplish doing that to a body in the middle of the desert.
listening to his videos honestly shows either just how much research goes into these movies or they just decided to roll the dice on if it made sense and Roanoke has so much knowledge that hes just able to deduce how they work why they work and what type of environment they came from
I’m surprised Roanoke hasn’t done any mass effect stuff. Sure there isn’t as terrifying of an existential threat as dead space but there is a lot to work with
@@EXPfarmer yeah I only found 3 and they are over 5 years old! I’m sure he has probably got alot more to say in regards to the ME universe. And he has definitely gotten much better at making videos so a remake would also be appreciated
@@brotherhammer8960Only time I've heard him mention mass effect was in a random video where he mentioned he's a tali fan. Immediately gained my respect lol
I remember this movie from twenty or more years ago. For some reason it really freaked me out. It wasn't scary, but I had to sleep with my tv on. I'm so amused that you're covering it. Love the video.
I volunteer at an animal shelter, and everytime I see someone stick their fingers in the cage of a random animal, I always think of what you say about poking thing with a stick 😂
We have signs up at the one I work at. Luckily people follow those more…at least they follow them when I’m in the room. But I suppose you see someone in animal print scrubs you figure they’re someone who can rat you out…
Wow, do the ants understand just how morbid and horrific it is to keep the ruined face of that lady as a hood ornament for their human hive mobile? That is SICK!
@RoanokeGaming it's a shame this had to be reuploaded, but what can we do? These bugs remind me of a sort of hivemind or flood-like entity... Also what do you think about Borderlands and it's sequels?
this was one of my mom's favorite creature horror movie. I grew my love for creature features from her. Of course looking back now the movie isn't very good, but I used to be scared shitless by the skeleton-ant army in the movie as a kid.
I've been watching your videos for a few years now, and I'd like to say thank you for your hard work. You blend comedy with education in a very special way. So again, from Tennessee, thank you.
I'm guessing that the entomologist in the comments section took offense to your theory Dr Roanoke and didn't take to kindly to it but nevertheless thank you for re-uploading this again.😂👍
As he said at 21:53 ants actually use spider, scorpion and even lizard's corpses they've killed to capture other insects or reptiles So them super ants doing that to human corpses is accurate So why are entomologists getting triggered at him pointing that out?
Roanoke, just want to say you're one of my favorite content creators. I look forward to every video that comes out because I always learn something new and get a good laugh in a very quick paced respect your time format. All the memes (including the channel specific ones) are funny. You always find a way to make these movies/shows look stupid and sound cooler than they actually are. Anyway, keep up the good work.
Wow that's gotta be one of the most interesting creatures for a monster movie I've ever seen. Just imagine if some folklore monsters really were just things like this. Normal creatures that we didn't understand. I mean besides the obvious unicorns might have been rhinos poorly described.
Interesting thing about unicorns. In Chinese mythology, there's also a type of unicorn but it's a bit different from European unicorns. In that it has a dog-like face and scales along its body. It's believed to be an exaggerated giraffe, probably seen by Chinese sailors going past Africa and later when they described it to people back on the mainland, that's the creature people imagined.
Playing Johnny Goes Marching Home is brilliant. On my old Atari (it had a cassette function, not a 2800) I had this ant colony game. You had to survive ant eaters, flooding, and other hardships. Fun little old-school game. But it playing Johnny as the music and I have never NOT associated ants (and bugs in general) to that music. Thanks for that little blast back to 1982.
The absolutely quarter-assed semi-attention to the plot of a given movie occasionally interrupted by direct quotes from the service manual of a random car or truck shown for 1.4 seconds in the background is part of the special charm of Roanoke
So many cool creature designs and ideas I've seen from this channel. The only Horror Characters/Monsters I knew before this channel was just several variations of some murderer who can't die, or really old and classic creature features.
Keep up the hard work my man! You are easily my favorite RU-vidr - certainly the only one I subscribed to on Patreon! I have learned a ton of things from your channel and it's made me do a lot more of my own research. I know 2023 ended in... a way... for you, but keep your chin up! If what is happening is what I think is happening, I've been through it myself and you just need to look at yourself, fix what you can, and rally! You got this!
This was my first video I've seen from you, and I'm not gonna lie, almost stopped when I saw a couple of spider carcasses. But I stuck with it and I'm glad that I did. Because after that hurdle, the comedy gold starts lol. Some may not like your style, but I'm all for it. This was an easy like and subscribe from me. Cannot wait to dig into your channel to find more awesome videos
Gonna be honest, if I was in a sandy desert area and I saw a bunch of halfburied trees I would think "I want to walk and sleep in that area". I'd think "Boy there might be some hollowed out tree trunks that'll kill me via suffocation if I walk over them."
Honestly, you have made science so much more digestible. I sucked at science in college (c+ after trying 3 times lmao) and I swear I've learned more from listening to you than in school I just think that's funny/cool
As a new subscriber to the channel, i vote for MORE tangents 😂 i love it & it adds to the experience lol also i laughed way too hard at 'I keep that thang on me, Goddammit Bobby' 🤣🤣
This video helped put a name to the film I watched 20 years ago as a little kid but couldn’t remember the name of at all. For 20 years I had the scene where the creature tests the gas barrier at night stuck in my head, unable to find out where it’s from. Thankyou for finally giving me its name!
Kinda funny hearing about antibiotics for the flu. I'm from Oregon and at least here I haven't run into a doc that gives them for the flu. They're super touchy more often than not here.
I like how this was about an ant colony In a bone mech suit but the music made me feel like I was about to march on the south to preserve the integrity of the union.
I love these videos bc its science but in a fun and understandable way, every evening I rewatch some videos with a blanket and my cat in my lab, thanks Roanoke❤
I absolutely love the educational nature of this channel. Your content is proof that learning can be fun Also this movie is just a slightly more horrifying version of that one episode from The Tick cartoon.
I'll rewatch (listen) to this tonight while I work. And I don't mind repeating my comment (seriously, though, RU-vid, look out for your creators that are following copyright laws!). Once again (with some changes cause I don't remember everything that I typed word for word): this gives me so many ideas. Just imagine if this species was given millions more years to develop this further. Imagine them evolving into a species that went into an extreme differentiated caste system that mimicked how cells dofferientiate to create a multi-cellular organims. It'd be like a man-o-war, a colony of individual organisms acting as a single organism. I can see the worker ants being the muscles and tendons; some honeypot ants storing food in the "stomach"; soldier ants acting as the "skin", protecting everyone underneath them with their tougher and thicker exoskeletons; a variant of the worker ants thay act as a food circulation system similar to blood vessels; and another worker variant thay acts as the nervous system, sending a chain of pheromone signals back and forth to and from the operating leader/captain ant.
I mean, right now you could easily compare how an ant colony works to how fungi works- spilling out its insides to explore the environment and eat. Just needs time to move up
Interesting how this movie requires a queen to act as a (very distant) central intelligence for the swarm. I would’ve assumed that it was just a case of highly complex emergent intelligence by the swarm itself (much like how ants & humans & slime molds can create highly efficient logistical paths without being conscious of it on an individual level). I think it’s the same thing that happens with Halo’s Hunter worms (which also walk like humans in the Nightfall miniseries).
I swear, there was a "Sci-fi channel original movie" with an eerily similar name and premise (bone monster chasing it's victims) but a completely different mechanics of how the monster worked (I don't quite remember the specifics, but I do know that the monster in that movie was outright supernatural)
I hope everything is ok Roanoke you are honestly one of my favorite RU-vidrs because you explain and show everything you can and you brighten my day thank you
Filmmakers: "Let's make a movie about fast flesh-eating intelligent ant colony!" Roanoke Gaming: "Let me give the detailed explanation." Filmmakers: 👁👄👁
"Go out in a funny pose that will confuse archeologists in the future." Don't worry, dude. I've been planning to do that since the Fallout memes about dying on a toilet started making the rounds. Also, the lead actor in this bares such a striking resemblance to Michael Shannon that I had to make sure it wasn't him or a relative.
I've never seen any of the movies you cover, but based on your summarizations, it really seems like they go through all this build-up of a super scary and dangerous creature, and then defeat it really easily.
I'll repost my comment. Roanoke you should do a series about "What Will Survive" in which you pitt the various media horrors against each other and see who would win/flourish/doom humanity. Maybe a second channel idea!!
