I took it as one those ‘hostage video’ situations ‘We know you’re monsters, and frankly you scare us. Please don’t invade us for water and oil on a whim’ being the specific form of blind panic behind the eyes while wearing the sort of smile which normally involves strychnine to even approach the rictus terror.

It does make people with a chronic lack of imagination and a rather sociopathic parsimony reveal themselves on the internet, so there’s that. There’s also finding how genes map to fully formed organism’s morphology, which, with a small amount of imagination, has numerous applications.