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Most people don't think spiders are particularly cute, especially not hairy, thick-legged ones. The excessive numbers of legs and eyes tend to turn people off, or at least not want them in our homes.
But one Disney-Pixar animator decided to prove the haters wrong by creating the world's cutest CGI spider, and almost overnight, a YouTube sensation was born. As of Thursday, he even has his own line of merchandise, Polygon reports, as all great internet stars do!
Meet Lucas the Spider: