Someone at gamefreak is a furry
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I contend that Furries are actually in a significant number of positions of political, economic, and telecom power.
This wouldn't be an issue if a slew of them weren't also being used as stormtroopers for the political left.
It does mean that HR may require "horny jail baseball bats" going forwards.
Well we do know the USAF is infested with them.
Anyway, it would still be a problem. Furries are just one type of hedonists, addicts to pleasure - you don't wake up one day and order a fursuit out of nowhere, you have to fall really hard to find yourself jacking it to antropomorphic animals, so hard that normal porn doesn't do it for you. There's a whole rabbit hole (NOT LIKE THAT) you have to crawl through first. It's how addiction progresses, you have to become increasingly extreme just to get high as you get used to whatever you're taking. And people like this must never be allowed near any levers of power because they will do anything to satiate their increasingly deranged fetishes, as well as to keep themselves safe from the normal people, because they know that the average Joe would hang them if he had any idea what they've been up to.
I actually don't think it's a "degenerating into it" situation, but is instead a kind of self-grooming with pornography. I don't think you're going to find any cases of men who are consuming normal pornography, stop consuming that porn and switch to drawn or animated fictional characters. We certainly don't see older men switching into furry porn from regular porn. And furries are very clearly younger and male.
What I argue is that you have emotionally under-developed young men that find anthrophomorphic (literally human-like) characters to be very relatable. These anthrophomorphic characters are literally designed to be simple and easy-to-understand symbols of specific behaviors, attitudes, mental states, or emotions. As such, they tend to be extremely relatable because they are literary devices that act as a stand-in for the viewer's own internal dialogues. If these characters exude any kind of sexuality or romance, this can basically "cross wires" in an emotionally under-developed young man who can suddenly find that relatable character to be the closest thing they have to a "crush". Obviously most movies and TV shows don't go too far due to broadcast restrictions, but if these young men have access to internet porn, suddenly they'll literally have porn of those characters; which if viewed repeatedly will effectively groom their sexuality towards those characters rather than real women.
This is a long-winded way of saying, Krystal from Star Fox didn't make anyone a furry; it's that young men basically used Krystal as an outlet for sexual frustration that caused them to groom themselves into furries with internet porn.
This likely isn't any different from the rise of hentai use among young American men. I think all of the mechanisms are the same, the target of attraction is just slightly different
Funny you should say as hentai spun off of furry (well, anthropomorphic animal) art - Osamu Tezuka had a sketchbook of funny animal people inspired by Disney, which was the major influence on anime in postwar Japan.
Sorry, I don't mean to say that. "Furry Art" as a thing we've seen emerge is a western phenomenon, not an eastern one. Hentai just has a similar effect of causing men to self-groom with pornography. Anime and Hentai just don't get the level of scorn that furries do because they are almost entirely human, to the point it's not really even appropriate to call anime characters anthrophomorphic. They are, at worst, almost exclusively human, but then someone drew cat ears on their head.