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Harvey Randall

Silksong fan uses electrons to draw the 'world's smallest Hornet', which is 'about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk', '2 bacteria long', and '8,000 times smaller' than the actual insect

A picture of a microscopic Hornet being drawn with electrons on the Silksong subreddit.

What do you do when you're waiting for a game to release? Go back and visit some old classics? Distract yourself by picking up a new hobby? Or do you draw the world's teeniest-tiniest Hornet that can only be observed under a microscope? Because that's what this one Silksong hopeful did.

In ritualistic preparation for a Nintendo Direct that did not produce fruit, user rous6 on the game's subreddit weaponised state-of-the-art technology to draw an itsy-bisty hornet on a piece of "positive tone resist" called ZEP520A.

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