Because "funny cartoon animals" in general got lumped in with "furry", regardless of whether or not it's accurate. That's how.
Thing is, most people don't consider the Looney Toons or Disney Characters* as furries.
I'm willing to bet Sonic as "teh furrie" started around when Archie/SatAm got popular on the internet and everyone started to make their own Freedom Fighter Mary Sue/Gary Stu/Fan character.
(*)Robin Hood seems to be the exception
Most likely because before then, Sonic and gang almost never had any humanlike features except in fanart. Almost seems like the Sonic franchise has become one of the bigger parts of the furry community...at least from what I see on DA. I always considered Archie more furry in nature since the characters took on human proportions while Sega Sonic to be just mere cartoony.
Ashide Bunni:
How the heck did Sonic get lumped into "teh furrie-ness" anyhow? The designs of the characters mostly resembles 'funny cartoon animals' such as Pogo, Mickey, and Bugs and not of nearly accurate human poportions of what you see in say Omaha the Cat Dancer.
I consider Warner Bros. and Disney's characters to be furries... They are cartoons, but by definition, they are furries. Well, my definition of a furry would be an animal that walks, speaks, behaves, and has a physical resemblance like a human.
Omaha, as Ashide mentioned, and other characters with limited animal traits, like Sara in Sonic OVA, are what I call "half-furry". Just a tail and ears isn't enough to be considered a full-fledged furry.
Another definition of "furry" is someone who is a part of the furry fandom. I am a furry in the real world, but I don't pretend that I am anything other than a purebred human.
And a note to everyone here: Epic Movie is creepy. The furries in there are all insane, and it's an insult to the furry fandom. ...But I did enjoy seeing all the spoofs from other movies, mostly centered around the Chronicles of Narnia.
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Epic Movie is creepy. The furries in there are all insane, and it's an insult to the furry fandom.
It's that right there, that's what I'm talking about. Taking offense to something so small and insignificant where it's not even remotely directed to you or "the fandom". It's a satire and thus if you are okay with the rest of the movie you must be okay with whatever portion you thought was an "insult".
Nobody is out to get you, ESPECIALLY the media. The "furry community" is most definitely not out in the open for the media to really care. The most we've seen is that idiotic special from MTV "I'm a furry", which basically just followed some horny ass fur-suiters in and out of convention rooms as they got their costumes all nice and crusty, (no, I'm not being funny; there was a whole section about freakin' fursuit sex... while still in the suit).
Blogs and shnit don't count, because then only 2% of all the blogs on the internet would hate furries outright. All the furry hate out there is unbelievable and skewed, but again, it's only because the most OUTSPOKEN furries that inhabit the plains of the internet are those overly "hot sexual pudding" furries. It's a shame, because I don't hate furries... much, (I have a slight like, vendetta on the lifestyle if anything, if only because something personal that happened to me), but I know some VERY good people who have a level head that are furries.
I think the major problem is that there IS A LINE that the community shouldn't cross before everyone figures out that all furries aren't crazy in the head; I just think as a whole we just haven't found that line so we can seperate the good from the bad. It needs to get to a point where people can talk about the stereotypes of furries, but people can still go "but those are just the bad ones anyway", just like we do today with stereotypical jokes about white people, black people, hispanic people, the jews, indians, hebrews; etc.
(See, stereotypes CAN be a good thing. There is one in every types of race and religion. That way we can seperate ourselves from the idiots).
Jinsoku:
It's that right there, that's what I'm talking about. Taking offense to something so small and insignificant where it's not even remotely directed to you or "the fandom". It's a satire and thus if you are okay with the rest of the movie you must be okay with whatever portion you thought was an "insult".
Did you even watch the movie? The furries in it were pretty much centralized around #4. It was disgusting. I actually turned away when things like that came up. ...Well, it's an offence to the more sensible side of the furry community.
True enough, the focus of the movie was not on this... They made references to quite a few other movies: Nacho Libre, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Borat, Pirates of the Carribean 2, X-Men 3, and several others I can't recall at the moment.
