Perhaps someone can help me understand the difference between an anthropromorphic animal mascot (which as a tale as old as time) and a furry? When does one cease to be one and becomes another?
There are animal mascots all the time in sports. Why is that not weird, but it’s weird to have a sporty animal mascot for coins?
For one thing, you can find furries that get horny for any fucking mascot. I 'member Tony the Tiger being “sexually harassed” by furries on twitter.
If you can think of any animalistic or anthro character, there’s a very big chance furries want to fuck it.
For me it tends to be realism vs exaggerated qualities? I think these look like furry characters because they have realistic body proportions, structure, and expressions despite the animal faces and features vs something like Mickey Mouse or Sonic the Hedgehog. This allows someone to more easily see in them the physical features humans find attractive, even a lot of subtle ones considering these characters aren’t sexualized in their official art. It’s not perfect and obviously there are people who have cartoonish fursona’s and there’s cartoonish furry porn out there, but it’s a basic observation
The gradient from “cute” to “horny” is difficult to describe, but clear to see.
“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it”
Neural networks are proof that we suck at defining things, but our labels are excellent.
I have no idea but the eyes and the smile definitely give a different vibe than most mascots.
