I originally joined Reddit in 2011, and in the beginning it was dominated by cat content. It was rare to see a post about dogs. Sometime in the mid 20-teens this phenomenon reversed. It’s always been a “pet theory” of mine that this reversal was due to Reddit becoming mainstream, and that it’s initial nerdy/techie user base preferred cats to dogs.
I think my theory is further supported by Lemmy. It’s pretty clear that most of Lemmy’s user base are techies, and currently it’s dominated by cat content. Just a shower thought. May be wrong.
NOTE: I love dogs and cats. This post isn’t arguing favoritism.
Now I’m curious what would be implied by some hypothetical social website if the animal content was dominated by, say, reptiles.
That they are Trump supporters? ( frogs are kinda reptiles, right?)
Frogs are amphibians. They’re both studied under herpetology, and there’s a broad overlap between reptile keepers and amphibian keepers, but biologically speaking there’s a lot different between them.
Hi, it’s me, the nerd with the snakes.
Snek tax
Here is an old photo of our BEL ball python named Marshmallow:
Ooh, love the eye, looks like a jem.
I’ll let Marshmallow know that a stranger thinks her eyes are pretty!
And here is our new baby, a normal BCI we have named Cinnamon Toast:
Imgur flagged your noodle as adult content 😅
That’s amazing, I’m belly laughing. For those scrolling through, the noodles are completely SFW.