>>329883758
According to wikipedia, they weren't. It cites an American porn comics movement whose page has nothing to do with weebs. The only mention of anime or manga is in the same sentence as Disney's Robin Hood, a decade before furries got started, treating both as artstyle inspirations.

>>329884164
What I'm doing is not claiming "nobody cares."
>how
The entire point of the "fitting in" meme is using a buzzphrase to claim that people can't have the opinions they say they have because you're using a buzzphrase to deny them.

>Sounded like you were trying to separate talking animals (western) from talking animals (eastern)
My first post sounded like that, but the recent post said the evidence showed furry fandom already spread there, so it can't be separated after all. My original reason for trying to separate them is that the problem is specifically the behavior of the furry fandom, so a connection to the fandom has to be proven for something to be furry.