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.
How about more pets in general? Gimme those pet turtle and pet spiders content
Turtles yes. Spiders not so much.
I’ve got a video of a turtle fucking another turtle…
Jk they aren’t actually fucking but think they were just before I found them. The turtle was my old friend and I’d been looking for him for years so when I saw him I immediately hit record and realized what he was doing later…