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Well this is an interesting outreach predicament… I’ll admit, some cutesy animal talk makes me cringe, but it’s usefulness in scicomm CANNOT be denied. Making a topic silly or cute can make it accessible
Particularly when you’re talking about snakes and spiders and other phobia-inducing animals that are (often) not looking for a fight and/or harmless, this cute-ification can help reduce the intimidation factor
This can (and has, to some extent) been applied to books, with frequent exclamations of "Absolute unit!" and "chonky," etc., and the professional pushback has been isolated
