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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/AmeliaS507 on 2026-05-23 13:18:23+00:00.

I was recommended to post this here, as my original post https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/TEcfwEeZ7W on [r/weird](r/weird) was deleted by the mods to the dismay of many.

So, the original title of my post was “why do ants love my jasper?”

*Original body text: I don’t understand. I was going to clean my windowsill and found like 6 ants on my Jasper.

The crazy thing is I cleaned my windowsill earlier today and there were ants on it then too! I cleaned them off. Now there are more. It’s so strange.

This is a tiny nugget I found at the crater of diamonds state park in Arkansas back in 2019. I’ve had it for years. It’s never attracted ants before. I am so confused???*

It was only after many kind people gently letting me know that my rock was not, in fact, a rock, that I should attempt to figure out what this thing was!

I ended up soaking it in water, which caused the ‘rock’ to lose its red color and become squishy. I became suspicious. So I stuck my fingernail in it and tore it in half.

Then, despite many people begging me to lick or eat it, I smelled it.

Upon smelling it, this was my reaction:

*Update I smelled it. It’s a fucking black licorice jelly bean. I’ve been carrying around a jelly bean covered in Arkansas dirt for 7 years under the impression it was a rock. I hate this. I hate life. I hate myself.*

I then had the *actual* rock located, which was similar in color and size, at my parents house. Sometime when I was moving, I must’ve grabbed a jelly bean instead of the actual rock and by assuming it was what I thought it was, never questioned it. So it sat on my windowsill for six months. It had never attracted ants before, because the weather had been cool. But it warmed up over the past few days and the ants swarmed it, which made me curious. So I snapped a photo and put it up on r/weird. And realized in front of 10,000 people what I thought was my beloved jasper was actually a crusty old jelly bean.

TL;DR I kept what I *thought* was a piece of jasper on my windowsill for six months only to discover it was actually a black licorice jelly bean. I thought ants were swarming it because of some weird science rock reaction. I’m an idiot 😭