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Ant in my screen?

Jeroen1322
By Jeroen1322
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Hi guys!

 

I was on the forum and i thought there was an ant on my screen so i tried o whipe ot of.. i did nothing, i did move like an ant and it is really tiny like a few pixels! it is really weird it was just walking and stuff and when i pressed on in nothing happend and when i put cy cursor on it it would fil a couple of pixels. ;O I could't film it but what could i be?  it is really weird! 

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It's a wierd phenomenon called "Digital Ant" where a real ant crawls into your monitor through an air vent and gets electrocuted by the LCD circuit board. It then becomes digital and crawls about in the pixel space of your monitor forever.

When you put your cursor over it, it squashes the ant, but it doesn't die as it is digital.

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Is your monitor completely closed up correctly?

Yes it is pretty new and never opened it 

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It's a wierd phenomenon called "Digital Ant" where a real ant crawls into your monitor through an air vent and gets electrocuted by the LCD circuit board. It then becomes digital and crawls about in the pixel space of your monitor forever.

When you put your cursor over it, it squashes the ant, but it doesn't die as it is digital.

Hahaha yeah right my display is haunted ;p

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