No idea for their specific case, but usually because VPNs makes it easier to circumvent bans as far as I am aware that is the main reason.
Not like it helps much tough as most people have dynamic IPs anyway… Any IP you have a suspicious of being of a banned person could just be of another ISP customer… Or the banned guy could have now another ip… so a user could circumvent a ban without a VPN anyway. That’s I guess why most Trackers stopped caring about the VPN.
Another reason could be to avoid crawling the content… That again would be related with banning the user anyway and nowadays with Jackett and company that is either expected or there is an API for it.
Ugh no idea I am not from USA which probably would be the place where they would put it on network tv but yeah there risk a new Frazier show from this year (or last?), it’s on Paramount+ I think.
In my head the xenomorphs can also spit some kind of sticky liquid and they use it to attach stuff. Either that or like some insects or similar there are micro stuff on the surface that works.like Velcro and stuff gets attached to it/trapped.