An interesting exception to this trend (so far) is the furry community. We're too queer, weird, and unapologetically degenerate for most companies to want to have anything to do with us. There's a reason why you get furries being thirsty for Tony the Tiger, and horniness is only part of the picture. It's also a shield that keeps the corpos out.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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Argubly the anime industry is trying hard though (cat girls etc.).
Less anime and more video / mobile games like Fortnite, Dislyte, and ZZZ
Which is hilarious given how much modern infrastructure relies on the designs and work of furries
just a matter of time.
I first learned about "furries" when they hacked some high-rank US things, reporting was done by commoditized content farmers on youtube, I think this is a bad sign for that community as well.
The corporations seize control of any youth cultures with frightening efficiency nowadays. You’ve got stuff like Fortnite dances, where kids are copying them on Tiktok - another corporate platform - and then that’s referenced in corporate superhero films. Basically a big corporate human centipede eating its own anus. And you’ve got situations like Billie Eilish, who’d barely had a viral video before being groomed by a team into a carefully manicured chimera of every youth culture going. Grassroots is ripped out and added to the machine.