Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
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Re: Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
#2This seems like a lot of complexity dedicated to a reward otherwise obtainable with less complexity.
Re: Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
#3I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you.
Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
Re: Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
#4I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
You basically just described ads, although poetically (:
Edit: after having read the article i want to change ads to "ads, influencers, and pyramid schemes"
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#5I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
Re: Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
#6I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
> Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you.
You mean like television ads showing scantily clad women to get you to spend all your income on ? Looks like the spider learned from us.
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#7I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
If you replace "eat you" by "financially ruin you", that's pretty much what pig butchering scams are:
Re: Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
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#9I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
There's a great movie called Under the Skin about this very topic. Featuring Scarlett Johansson no less.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(2013_film)
When I saw it I also thought of the Australian beetles that hump beer bottles until they die, because the size, color, and texture of the beer bottle resemble a particularly sexy female beetle and they just can't help themselves.
Re: Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web
#10I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
And to add insult to injury, the decoy mate turns out to be a sucker like you mind-controlled to act like the very thing he was pursuing...