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Intriguing. Probably not well suited for models with arachnophobia though.

I wonder how strong the resulting layer is. The should straps being adjusted in the video show that it's definitely not weak.

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Depends on what variant of arachnophobia they have. Many are more afraid of the spiders and not the webs themselves.

I've never heard of arachnophobia being a fear of webs rather than, you know, the actual arachnids. It's utterly bizarre to me that that would be GP's first thought...

Where there's a web, there's gotta be a spider?

Right, but even if that was how phobias work, which to my understanding it's not, it still depends on being afraid of the spider to be afraid of the web, while the poster above is implying there are some people who are primarily/only afraid of the web.

So when I googled it while in the middle of writing my last comment It was heavily implied that there was not a separate phobia for just the web. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/fear-of-spid...

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