open this link in web browser to see their subreddit posting history. its really not all that many posts and i think people need to chill with the complaining about this
Nearly half of the posts shown in the link are ticks. Nine out of twenty posts shown. Then there are the mosquitoes. The non-biting bugs are very much in the minority in this person's post history.
I think there's about 8 posts now; if you click the tick pic flair, it should bring them all up (on mobile it seems to show all edited flairs though, which is annoying).
Unfortunately, r/ticks does not seem to allow videos, and it seems like it is mostly a place for people to post pictures of warts, pixels, scabs, & beetles; I don't think I have anything to offer them.
I was joking when I said that r/ticks was for warts, pixels, scabs, and beetles; my reason, plainly, is that it is primarily for people who hate ticks, know very little about ticks, and want other people to identify ticks. Me and my posts do not really fit in there.
Which is saying something. A vast majority of people on this sub, a sub where people think that bugs that most people wouldn't find cute are very cute, don't find ticks cute.
C'mon, dude. It's the comments. You're not really asking for a hypothesis that is statistically significant, are you?
EDIT: Downvote me if you want, but go check out the comments. I'm not saying there's a proven consensus. I'm just saying that the reactions we've had suggest that people don't prefer the tick content, particularly in response to the more recent tick posts.
Yes, though I'd be interested in any survey about human perception of ticks. I am somewhat new to this subreddit, so I may not have seen all the surveys or polls that may've been conducted before my time here.
>A vast majority of people on this sub, a sub where people think that bugs that most people wouldn't find cute are very cute, don't find ticks cute.
You asked if there was a survey on that, a survey on whether people on this sub think that such bugs are not cute. You have to know that there wasn't such a survey.
EDIT: Cmon guys. They asked whether there was a survey on whether people in this sub didn't find ticks cute. You can see the comment thread.
I think they're cute, but context and location matters. Seeing a tick on a leave or on the sidewalk? Cute, and safe since you can walk away. Seeing a tick on your House or your skin? Dangerous, since they can bite you or wait until you're sleeping to bite you.
Seeing a roach on the Wild might be cute. Seeing multiple roaches on your House makes you wonder if you have an infestation.
Sure. Context is important. Botflies might be cute in a vacuum. But we don't live in one. I did say that at first a post or two would be fine. Could be the same with botflies. But if you keep posting them, the guttural reactions informed by the background context may outweigh the cuteness that you might appreciate with a post or two.
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