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[-] Neato@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago

Anthropomorphic animals have been a staple since Disney and freaking Aesop! 600BCE. People labeling it all the same as people who have a fursona are really weird.

It seems like this is what the bigots and outrage enthusiasts have latched into since they've been thoroughly shunned for hating other demographics (trans people most recently). It seems like it's getting more posts recently.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

That's exactly how it is. Bullying LGBTQ+ is shunned upon these days, so bigots are redirecting their hatred to the next thing on the list they don't understand, furries

[-] InkstainTheBat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, I want to clarify, I'm not looking to bully or harass the furry community or any of its members, I'm a furry myself, and I made this meme simply because I thought it was intresting how common anthropomorphic animals are in animation

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

All good with you, also agree it's interesting to see anthro characters getting more screen time lately. What disappoints me is the creeping tide of hate, one can't bring up the topic without trolls starting a fire

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[-] SlimeKnight@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

Sounds like an absolute win to me.

[-] Dabundis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

There are no downsides

[-] spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 year ago

Why are people acting like any animal based character is a furry? Did everyone forget about Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Cats Don't Dance, Aristocats, Mickey Mouse, American Tale, The Secret of NIMH, Adventures from the Book of Virtues, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Oliver and Company, Lion King, Bambi, Chester Cheetah, The Great Mouse Detective, the Trix Rabbit, basically anything made for kids, old fables and folktales, etc feel free to add to the list

None of this is new and it reminds me when people were losing their minds over actors playing different characters like it was a new thing

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

Looney Tunes and Time and Jerry didn't wear clothes, or pretend they were people.

The Looney tunes characters were all animals in animal settings, personified for comedic effect.

Then you've got all that Don Bluth stuff that is definitely furry, which kicked of a lot of furry imaginations.

[-] daveyeah@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I've never met anyone who hasn't watched cartoons where animals pretend to be people before, what a day.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Lola Bunny was almost a furry awakening for me.

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

S-step on me, Renamon... 😳

[-] kshade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That stuff is literally what the furry fandom is about though.

The specific term furry fandom was being used in fanzines as early as 1983, and had become the standard name for the genre by the mid-1990s, when it was defined as "the organized appreciation and dissemination of art and prose regarding 'Furries', or fictional mammalian anthropomorphic characters". However, fans consider the origins of furry fandom to be much earlier, with fictional works such as Kimba, the White Lion, released in 1965, Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, published in 1972 (and its 1978 film adaptation), as well as Disney's Robin Hood as oft-cited examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

No idea why people would lose their minds about this either, though.

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why are people acting like any animal based character is a furry?

Furries are anthropomorphic animals, i.e. non-human animals with human characteristics. Which describes everything you just listed.

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Furries are a community off-shoot of the broader sci-fi fandom that started in the 1970's, characterized by a fondness for anthropomorphic reprisentation in media. It expanded from it's sci fi roots into fantasy, alt-historical fiction, slice of life, and yes, porn, because nerds are horny.

Furries is also the term for the characters that are created by the members of the community, and also has been used to describe other characters in other media, but it's worth noting that not all of these come from furries (the people), though by now nearly all do. The lead character artists for Zootopia and Sing are out furries, for example. And Vivziepop and the Lackadaisy team certainly are furries.

[-] Oka@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

Anthro does not have to mean furry. You can still like them without being a furry

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[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 24 points 1 year ago

Said as if the whole industry as we know it wasn't spawned by an indie animation of an anthropomorphic mouse wearing clothes and piloting a steamboat.

[-] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

*anthropomorphic mouse wearing clothes, repairing a seaplane.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

we need more cartoons filled with steamboat fans

[-] InkstainTheBat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Holy crap it's true

[-] awaremi@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Lackadaisy is a work of art and you know it

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Some of the creators mentioned they just find cats more expensive. Makes sense to me, especially the tails.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

It's not a disease, you're not gonna wanna start fucking Teddy bears just because you watched something made by or for furry fans.

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[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Helluva Boss

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I was rather taken aback at the art style on Luna. It's not necessarily the idea of a hell hound, but the art style is very furry.

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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

And? Is it good?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Lackadaisy is great! I thought hellodaboss was just okay.

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[-] ytrav@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

i, as a furry, couldn't ask for anything better than seeing more furries in TV shows. They just look so cute..

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

It's where the money is. Or so I'm told (⁠٥⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠)

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

There are 2 types of furries. Those in tech who are suspiciously wealthy, and poor artists who get commissioned by the former. Furries run IT btw. 10+% of my MSP team are furries.