>>105195934I'd go as far as even separating proto-furries from the early days of the fandom of the 70s and 80s, when it was an emerging media-focused fandom, from the current furries who joined in the 90s and after, when the focus shifted to it being a fetish and alternative lifestyle fandom.
>>105195998Humans have being making anthropomorphic versions of anything and everything since the dawn of human creativity. It's only in the last 20 years that some people in tiny pockets of the internet go into conniptions over anthropomorphic _animals_, when they're perfectly fine with other anthro-things (even overtly sexual anthro-things).
>>105196069If you can't tell the difference between folk tales and fetishes...
>>105196040It wasn't until places like Something Awful and 4chan noticed Furry fandom that outright hostility started. No-one had really heard of them or paid attention to them until then. No-one outside the internet knows or cares about them.
>>105195963We need to take back control of our cartoon characters.
