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

Sure there've been talking animals since humans have been telling stories, but what seems to be new is the rando who's always there in the comments to say "Yo, I'd totally tap Tigger's ass", "That Coyote character is a snack."

There are no downsides

Denial is so sad to see

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.

Also pretty sure Disney is responsible for a lot of furries. Gadget alone fucked up a lot of kids.

Lola Bunny was almost a furry awakening for me.

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.

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.

*anthropomorphic mouse wearing clothes, repairing a seaplane.

we need more cartoons filled with steamboat fans

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

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.

Lackadaisy is great! I thought hellodaboss was just okay.

Cope.

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.

Lackadaisy