I swear like half of the memes in this community are just ai generated images with an obscure reference as a caption that everybody in the comments somehow gets

To be fair, some languages outside of English reserve “it” (or the equivalent 3rd person neuter pronoun) for “non-living” things. For people whose native language is one of those languages, calling an animal “it” may seem a bit too harsh even while speaking English.

Wait till you see public companies