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On 30 August 2015, the YouTube account ViralVideoLab posted a video purportedly showing ants circling an iPhone, an awe-eliciting display that drew thousands of viewers within the first few days of publications: Example: [Collected via YouTube, August 2015] A number of explanations were proffered for the ant behavior shown in the video, everything from ants being affected by the electromagnetic wave of an incoming call to ants simply liking to follow each other: Others maintained that the video was digitally created, noting factors such as: While Alex Wilde, Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, couldn't definitively say how the video was made, he did opine that it used digital ants rather than real ones: Suggestions for documenting the authenticity of the video include repeating the same experiment with different ants, or moving the iPhone around to see if the ants react and start circling in the opposite direction.
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