Plenty of people I know dislike spiders very much. If I'm just having lunch with them, they're not going to, unprompted, say "you know what I think about all day every day? Spiders." as a random conversation starter. They don't even want to THINK about them, so they'll actively drive conversations AWAY from adjacent topics like bugs or wildlife or camping.
It's about being in a void of other topics.
Plenty of people I know dislike spiders very much. If I'm just having lunch with them, they're not going to, unprompted, say "you know what I think about all day every day? Spiders." as a random conversation starter. They don't even want to THINK about them, so they'll actively drive conversations AWAY from adjacent topics like bugs or wildlife or camping.