If you've been on the Internet for long enough, you've probably come across the meme that - sooner or later - everything turns into crabs. According to the meme, sooner or later - be you a fish or Danny DeVito - you are to become a crab. While this is, of course, just a fun exaggeration, it's based on some fun ideas. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

For you see, everything in nature (well, thankfully just crustaceans) seems to want to become a crab. Just like tech bros repeatedly trying to invent a new type of transport and accidentally reinventing the bus , evolution seems to keep spitting out animals that look like crabs.

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