I would argue it's also easier to make positive associations with animalistic features, assuming positive interactions were had with pets and such. Honestly, worst an animal will usually do is bite you. People rip hearts out for shiggles. Greater intelligence gives greater potential for cruelty. Anthros might be seen as a way to get a synthesis of "intelligent, but not necessarily cruel". Dunno. Has anyone ever actually done a study on this?
Even back then it was shameful. Just look at the person shielding their eyes.
Are you saying that furriness is basically Sick Fuck Integer Overflow? Like Nuclear Gandhi? Or are we talking more Missingno-tier shenanigans?
When a human is created, they get a random value assigned to how strange their sexual desires are going to be. The random value is chosen in a range, and so it's capped. However as they are raised a random walk algorithm is run that moves this value up and down. This random walk has a floor, it can't go beneath 0, but it doesn't have a cap and can move infinitely high. This value is stored in a dynamic array of integers and as a result is arbitrarily large and doesn't overflow. When God realized his mistake and saw the brutality of man, he stepped in and tried a server-side patch with the world's religions. Wouldn't fix the cart with a hard cap, but maybe it could be an effective cap of sorts. However these days many people are getting nostalgic for the days of the 1.0.0.0.0 Beta Civilization (aka 10000 BC) and joining fan-made servers without that patch. God is planning a great and powerful lawsuit that will shut down the fan made servers and bring everyone still on company hardware to an awesome endgame.
Now let me preface this by saying that I like the idea of fucking antropomorphic goats..
The late 80s and early 90s -- a time when the oldest Millennials weren't yet in high school -- was a time when furry characters were prominent in American media. Sonic the Hedgehog was the "way past cool" answer to Mario by SEGA. There was also that furry Robin Hood cartoon by Di$ney someone already mentioned. And I wonder how many impressionable youth were seduced down the dark path by that Ninjara character in the Ninja Turtles comics...
