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* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] 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 (1 children)

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 8 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) (1 children)

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.