I remember hearing about that on TV Tropes. Needless to say, one guy said "We sold out the Soviet Union for this?" or something like that. Needless to say, it wouldn't be surprising if any of them were furries.
Trying to figure that out, I'm guessing they wanted to make a female character that was tough or something. I don't know because all I can say is that she ended up being liked by furries, I'm sure of it.
I've never seen Space Jam, but I suspect it was probably just to give the character a uniquely identifiable model. There's a rule about character design that a good character model should be immediately recognizable as a silhouette. Without breasts the character would probably have been too similar to Bugs. They want their characters to be immediately recognizable, especially by children, so they can market toys and cereal and soft drinks and happy meals and whatnot to them, because that's where the big money is (at least before the brony phenomenon). Making the character model appealing to sexual deviants was just an unfortunate side effect, though one they'll happily go along with if those deviants also buy toys and cereal etc.
Might I try and answer your questions?
Indeed. By reflecting into one's own nature, they can pretty much see what kind of spergy lies within it. A furry looking into his own nature as a furry would question himself as to why he has babby furry images. A brony reflecting on his nature would wonder why he is attracted a pastel colored horse whose coat is like a vomited rainbow. The way a thread like this can end badly is if someone tries to respond why they look up creepy images of Tiny Toons even if said someone doesn't have the hots for Bugs Bunny.
This may be more like a weird fetish, but the characters are furry, sooo...
Gonna play a little devils advocate here. Given the tendency for some furries and bronies and their ilk to shit up forums that are completely unrelated to anything furry (like gaming forums) with their shitty "art", I can only imagine how awful the more extreme members of furry fandom might make sites that are somehow furry related. Add in the possibility that those sites might have lazy moderators and no spoiler implementation, and I can well see how a Chuck Jones fan might have seen furry shit they never wanted to see (and why they are really pissed off about it).
Distantly related and a pet peeve of mine: Google images has taught me that MLP fans will find a way to shoehorn cartoon ponies into any meme, fandom or fetish.
Yeah, I understand since there are some things you can't look up without getting porn (ex: Renamon (thankfully kids don't look her up))
You can also type in random letters and digits in search and get images with similar id's. (some of it porn)
Go even deeper and you'll find a Jesus Pony, you'll find a CWC pony. Wonder if someone made a ponified human centipede well congratulations, it is out there. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if someone made a ponified version of Null or Saney. As much as how some bronies are fans of other memes, shows, and games, there are some things that do not deserve ponify, especially if they have the mentality that "it's better because it has ponies". Then there are comments that would literally show sperging just because of ponify (both for and against). Funny thing with MLP being shoehorned, Valve had a TF2 hat that was a sort of MLP reference. Needless to say, some people flat-out sperged in rage about it.
Yeah, some internet rule someone made up.
