The weird fucking cretins are practically urinating on major games and the devs are simply acknowledging it instead of spraying them with a hose.
I actually think it's more than that. I think they are weaponizing it. This is why I had that one rant screaming at Dreamworks, yelling "YOU KNEW" in regards to their trailers for Zootopia.
Being an insular community, furries are easily manipulatable into generating viral online marketing campaigns (as long as they aren't actually the forefront). As u/SocraticMethod1 also noted they have significant disposable income, making it actually mildly profitable to market to that niche.
Not only that, but due to how online communities will also move into online games and IT; there is a real point where furries are simply entering into development and developer roles. As such, they (without anyone asking questions), simply injecting options that would otherwise never have been available.
Additionally, I think there's a larger philosophical discussion we might need to have regarding mental illness, lack meaning, identity crisis, and over-sexualization of young-people that's actually manufacturing furries. Not as a kind of recruiting attempt you might see with Queers, but the natural result of arrested emotional developments of children growing into puberty and adults while having never actually developed a mature and stoic emotional self.
To your last point, I just know that quite a few little boys like Sonic the Hedgehog, like my cousin's sons. I saw with horror as one was on Youtube the Sonic furry fanart stuff that gets pushed on him in the recommendations.
I'm sure he watched some of it to start the cascade of recommendations, but the first video was almost certainly a YouTube recommendation only because he watched normal Sonic content, not degenerate furry crap.
That's probably a weakness in the algorithm. YouTube has never really been safe for children to just go about browsing. You need some serious curation if you want to actually display only child-friendly content that you can confirm isn't subversive or randomly spliced with crazy shit, or potentially some trippy as fuck algorithm nonsense.
If the algorithm is looking for videos with the same words, or associated popularity, or even just similar colors and shapes, it's not really a good algorithm for children.
I actually think it's more than that. I think they are weaponizing it. This is why I had that one rant screaming at Dreamworks, yelling "YOU KNEW" in regards to their trailers for Zootopia.
Being an insular community, furries are easily manipulatable into generating viral online marketing campaigns (as long as they aren't actually the forefront). As u/SocraticMethod1 also noted they have significant disposable income, making it actually mildly profitable to market to that niche.
Not only that, but due to how online communities will also move into online games and IT; there is a real point where furries are simply entering into development and developer roles. As such, they (without anyone asking questions), simply injecting options that would otherwise never have been available.
Additionally, I think there's a larger philosophical discussion we might need to have regarding mental illness, lack meaning, identity crisis, and over-sexualization of young-people that's actually manufacturing furries. Not as a kind of recruiting attempt you might see with Queers, but the natural result of arrested emotional developments of children growing into puberty and adults while having never actually developed a mature and stoic emotional self.
To your last point, I just know that quite a few little boys like Sonic the Hedgehog, like my cousin's sons. I saw with horror as one was on Youtube the Sonic furry fanart stuff that gets pushed on him in the recommendations.
I'm sure he watched some of it to start the cascade of recommendations, but the first video was almost certainly a YouTube recommendation only because he watched normal Sonic content, not degenerate furry crap.
That's probably a weakness in the algorithm. YouTube has never really been safe for children to just go about browsing. You need some serious curation if you want to actually display only child-friendly content that you can confirm isn't subversive or randomly spliced with crazy shit, or potentially some trippy as fuck algorithm nonsense.
If the algorithm is looking for videos with the same words, or associated popularity, or even just similar colors and shapes, it's not really a good algorithm for children.