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Stockholm Syndrome is a condition where hostages or imprisoned people develop feelings for the people holding them hostage. Here the ant liking the spider may be a case of that. Especially clever because Stockholm is of course in Sweden!
The y in "myran" is long, while the y in "tycker" is short. All vowels have a long pronunciation and a short pronunciation. Unlike in some languages you might be more familiar with, long vowels aren't just held out longer; rather, they have a different sound altogether. Typically (but not always), a vowel is long if it's followed by only one consonant (or no consonants), and short if there are more than one. That's why you might notice there are a lot of doubled consonants.
Actually if you watch the rest of the video you see the ant kills the spider... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAggi3eqYhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fQTWGrAD_M
tycker means think tycker om (literally) means think about
I imagine Myran och spindeln dancing to this at midsommar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fQTWGrAD_M