Genuine question here… How are people that are triggered by cartoony spiders not triggered by crabs as well?
Crabs are extremely spider-like. Heck, they are both Arthropods. And apparently fried Tarantula even tastes like crab. You’re trading land spiders for aquatic spiders instead if you think about it.
WoW’s spiders do no trigger my arachnophobia, but I dig crabs and honestly having the mode turned on makes the game crabtastic 
I legit don’t notice the amount of small spiders there are in the game normally but when there’s crabs everywhere, it’s crabtime.
Now I’m hungry XD
I feel like this is like asking why someone with coulrophobia isn’t afraid of normal-looking people because they look kind of similar to clowns without makeup.
correct, it’s an irrational fear, it’s not rational and therefore not easily explained.
you do you, bro.
Im not creeped out by spiders in gaming or anything but irl i run a mile.
The thought of eating lobster or crabs grosses me out as i agree theyre water spiders.
People terrified of clowns should absolutely be terrified of people. Since they’re the real horror beneath the makeup!
my guess is this will be next to get changed
Galeophobia
Thalassophobia
Phobias are irrational fears. That’s the difference.
Crabs aren’t spiders.
but they are in the same family
They’re cute as all get out, for the most part.
don’t know… I have this phobia, and let me tell you, I have the corpse of a god damn scorpion guarded inside a glass thing as decoration in my room, i can hold the thing agaisnt me and i don’t feel anything.
a tarantula though? just a cartoony bad drawing of a 12 year old drives fear in me. A real picture of one? panic, and my body starts burning, i can’t even imagine a tarantula, my own imagination triggers the phobia.
I have an irrational fear of spiders, but it’s triggered it seems by specific movements and the overall size (small ones don’t bother me).
Crabs, lobsters, scorpions, any other insect of any kind doesn’t trigger it.
Coconut crabs should, by this logic, terrify me but…nothing.
Couldn’t explain it any more than that.
The wife has a worse phobia of moths. Can’t even begin to comprehend that one myself.
Legit when I tried the mode out, I was more freaked out by crabs being in places they shouldn’t be.
By this logic, someone who likes cats should have no issue being face-to-face with a leopard, no?
one way to get rid of fear of spiders imho is to get a jumping spider
they are like puppy spiders
Okay, but like, I was horrified by moths as a child. We had these things called Black Witches all over our school as it was open to the elements. Those are these GIANT moths… Well one day a kid threw his shoe at one and it flew down the hall and right into my face… I was terrified of all moths until I grew up lol XD
i dont know where to laugh or give you a hug or both lol
You’re expecting a phobia to play fair. That’s your first mistake