I refuse to believe this story. I refuse.
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~~They did surgery on a grape.~~ They named an ant Gamergate.
How was it, err, named?
Who named it?
Was it literally named this as a joke?
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!
From the etymology section of the article:
Gamergate" derives from the Greek words γάμος (gámos) and ἐργάτης (ergátēs) and means "married worker". It was coined in 1983 by geneticist William Louis Brown and was first used in scientific literature by entomologists Christian Peeters and Robin Crewe in a 1984 paper published in Naturwissenschaften.