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Or the same group of people who were going to be furries (predominately a thing developed on the internet) were going to first be deliberate internet users who then naturally discover lemmy.
Yes.
Tumblr is the crucible in which the furries were spawned. When you think about it Tumblr was the 4chan for women/people who write fan fiction. Wild West vibe.
When Pixar animated that lion on its back with fuck me eyes its been downhill since. They employed the people who humped their stuffed animals and werent told to stop.
Jokes aside I like seeing the different groups that share the similarity of being irritated by centrally controlled forums/ privacy on Lemmy. My kind of weirdos (for the most part)
I looked it up and the first convention was in 1989
Love being wrong
Furries have been on the Internet much longer than tumblr has existed. Perhaps even longer than the world wide web has existed: I know of at least one group that was on IRC in the 90s
They were big on usenet groups and loved talking about 90s children cartoons. Alt.tv.animaniacs and alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom were notable and are still archived and browsable, though if you’re using something like Google groups you have to either search for key terms or be ready to flip past the 25+ years of spam posts that have been made since the groups were active in the 90s
https://www.animaniacs.info/ata/ - an old school poster still runs a faq on the animaniacs one. The person hosting this animaniacs site has to be 50-60+ years old. Note that another section of the site shows the show had a reference to adults obsessively documenting the show: https://www.animaniacs.info/pppgalf/ which was because the network was very much aware of them because they were sending cease and desists over erotic content like fanfic and ftps with porn
https://antifandom.com/tinytoons/wiki/The_World%27s_Biggest_Tiny_Toon_Fan tiny toons also had a similar reference, apparently, because of similar problems including tress macneille getting threatening letters and rule34 of her character mailed to her (though in those days it was just called fanart)
Like most things it seems like the majority of the group was probably fine, just super into a cartoon, and a few bad actors crossed the line which allowed the whole group to be painted as dangerous obsessive freaks. But back in the early 2000s this was one of the bigger examples of “furries are creeps” style punching down that was everywhere on the internet (and pretty much still is tbf)
Yup. That IRC group was in fact themed for one of those 90s cartoons (trying not to dox them too hard, for all I know they are still active. I know of them through a friend I've known since middle school, who doesn't talk much about the whole furry thing these days)
AFAIK, it was Disney's animated "Robin Hood" that did it first.
I'm sure it's been around longer, but if you're going to give anyone credit, it's gotta be Disney.
Here's a NSFW 1970s poster for you that doesn't look very different from today's. https://ebay.us/m/lC8tOr