>>5014309 (OP)
It being the apex predator probably lead to it gaining its mascot status, a similar trend happens with other apex animals in various ecologies. The reality is that caring at all about cambrian ecology is still niche enough that many of the people who like it do so entirely out of hipsterism. There is obviously a lot of those kinds on reddit. But while Ive never used the site so I can't be sure, I would imagine that many of the people who like anamolocaris there also like other cambrian expansion animals for the same reason that they like anamolocaris; it just being the most visible as a result of it being the mascot. You apparently make nautilus threads, too, and while you might not realize this, nautilus undoubtedly fall into a similar enough cultural perception to anamolocaris that they either already have/are prime for being captured by reddit niche-worshipping hipsterist types. To blindly act in contrarianism against the things that those visivle hipsterist types like makes you as just as one dimensionally downstream of mass appeals as they are. You are rejecting their interest for the exact same psychological craving for uniqueness that causes many of them to gravitate towards their interests to begin with. Grow up. I can't imagine caring so deeply about what other people are interested in. It's like the mindset of a rebellious child. Anyways, for me it's Diania.
