>>50528822If you want a real answer, it's based on the copious amounts of news articles from mainstream media sources like CNN, Vice, huffingtonpost, etc. that seem suspiciously eager to advertise bugs as a future source of protein. You'll have articles talking about an "exciting" up and coming snack company that sells crickets and cicadas, or articles about how culturally significant bugs are as a dietary staple of people living in backwater shitholes so it MUST be good! Or, most alarmingly, how good bugs are as a protein source environmentally when compared to beef, pork, chicken, etc. Basically it seemed like these mainstream media outlets were shilling bugs as something you should give a try and something our society should normalize eating, which prompted lots of people in multiple political spheres on twitter to go "fuck off I'm not eating bugs" then queue similar articles about tiny houses and ecopods and then rest is schizoposting history.
The most likely reason? These articles with gross pictures of people shoving whole crickets in their mouths and maggots in burger meat were, shockingly, made to gross you out and get you to engage with the article, and it fucking worked which is why they keep making them.
