If You Could Name Them, What Are The Top 3 Reasons That Caused This?

If you could name them, what are the top 3-5 reasons that caused this culture to be so trendy nowadays?

My theories are:

1. It looks like an "easier" and more "affordable" surface-level way out for misplaced parental instincts. People realize that becoming upstanding and raising upstanding people is too much work, so they would rather have an animal that can't talk back and has no choice.

2. Businesses realized they can profit off this (veterinarians and food), so they spend more $ on marketing so dogs are in more shows, movies, videos, and advertisements.

3. Society getting "easier" in a way. Less real problems like poverty, war, starvation -> less need for rationing and saving money/time/energy -> less grounded -> more wasting time on useless, fake problems.

4. It's one part of the depopulation plan. As people get more divided, they don't trust their neighbors and other people anymore. So they trust animals more, if that makes sense. It's part of a code to program society to not want to be truly fulfilled and reproduce anymore.

Let me know what you think! 😊 Am I missing any?