Happened twice already

Anthropomorphic animals have been a staple since Disney and freaking Aesop! 600BCE. People labeling it all the same as people who have a fursona are really weird.

It seems like this is what the bigots and outrage enthusiasts have latched into since they've been thoroughly shunned for hating other demographics (trans people most recently). It seems like it's getting more posts recently.

That's exactly how it is. Bullying LGBTQ+ is shunned upon these days, so bigots are redirecting their hatred to the next thing on the list they don't understand, furries
- Hey, I want to clarify, I'm not looking to bully or harass the furry community or any of its members, I'm a furry myself, and I made this meme simply because I thought it was intresting how common anthropomorphic animals are in animation
- Eh, I guess, but it is a bit harder to understand. You mention LGBTQ+, so considering the sexual aspect of furries... sexualizing animals... yeah. As long as they're not going to actual bestiality, I don't really care. But no, I don't understand.
  
  Tl;dr: You're probably right and I'm rambling.
Sure there've been talking animals since humans have been telling stories, but what seems to be new is the rando who's always there in the comments to say "Yo, I'd totally tap Tigger's ass", "That Coyote character is a snack."
- Bugs Bunny dressed in drag etc etc etc. It's not new. You're just noticing it is all.
- Idk the ancient Greeks and Egyptians are definitely suspect with some of the stories they made
- People say that about every character and real actor. Where have you been?
I'm just going to go with it's really fucking weird to see a heard of kids around the furries at Pride.

I'm not anti-furry, but some self awareness would be nice.
- That's because of your personal biases and perceptions. Not anything larger surrounding it or backing your opinion up. Unless they're out there performing indecent public acts. Where is the problem? And my knowledge in general they aren't. While some might have fetishes surrounding furries. Furries in and of themselves are not objectively a sexual fetish. No more than people cosplaying is.
- Stop sexualizing everyone because of what you see on the Internet. They aren't fucking in public. People are allowed to be into fur suits and fursonas and also like fucking in them in private. That's like people being weirded out seeing you around kids because they know you had sex once.

Sounds like an absolute win to me.

There are no downsides

Why are people acting like any animal based character is a furry? Did everyone forget about Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Cats Don't Dance, Aristocats, Mickey Mouse, American Tale, The Secret of NIMH, Adventures from the Book of Virtues, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Oliver and Company, Lion King, Bambi, Chester Cheetah, The Great Mouse Detective, the Trix Rabbit, basically anything made for kids, old fables and folktales, etc feel free to add to the list

None of this is new and it reminds me when people were losing their minds over actors playing different characters like it was a new thing

Looney Tunes and Time and Jerry didn't wear clothes, or pretend they were people.

The Looney tunes characters were all animals in animal settings, personified for comedic effect.

Then you've got all that Don Bluth stuff that is definitely furry, which kicked of a lot of furry imaginations.

Also pretty sure Disney is responsible for a lot of furries. Gadget alone fucked up a lot of kids.
- I've never met anyone who hasn't watched cartoons where animals pretend to be people before, what a day.
Lola Bunny was almost a furry awakening for me.
- S-step on me, Renamon... 😳
That stuff is literally what the furry fandom is about though.

The specific term furry fandom was being used in fanzines as early as 1983, and had become the standard name for the genre by the mid-1990s, when it was defined as "the organized appreciation and dissemination of art and prose regarding 'Furries', or fictional mammalian anthropomorphic characters". However, fans consider the origins of furry fandom to be much earlier, with fictional works such as Kimba, the White Lion, released in 1965, Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, published in 1972 (and its 1978 film adaptation), as well as Disney's Robin Hood as oft-cited examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

No idea why people would lose their minds about this either, though.
Why are people acting like any animal based character is a furry?

Furries are anthropomorphic animals, i.e. non-human animals with human characteristics. Which describes everything you just listed.
- Furries are a community off-shoot of the broader sci-fi fandom that started in the 1970's, characterized by a fondness for anthropomorphic reprisentation in media. It expanded from it's sci fi roots into fantasy, alt-historical fiction, slice of life, and yes, porn, because nerds are horny.
  
  Furries is also the term for the characters that are created by the members of the community, and also has been used to describe other characters in other media, but it's worth noting that not all of these come from furries (the people), though by now nearly all do. The lead character artists for Zootopia and Sing are out furries, for example. And Vivziepop and the Lackadaisy team certainly are furries.

Anthro does not have to mean furry. You can still like them without being a furry

Denial is so sad to see
- I'm a furry ally, but not a furry myself. I don't engage in the community, but I appreciate their work. Furries get a bad reputation and too much hate, and we shouldn't bully them into submission.

Said as if the whole industry as we know it wasn't spawned by an indie animation of an anthropomorphic mouse wearing clothes and piloting a steamboat.

we need more cartoons filled with steamboat fans
*anthropomorphic mouse wearing clothes, repairing a seaplane.
Holy crap it's true

Lackadaisy is a work of art and you know it

Some of the creators mentioned they just find cats more expensive. Makes sense to me, especially the tails.
Faxx

It's not a disease, you're not gonna wanna start fucking Teddy bears just because you watched something made by or for furry fans.

Helluva Boss

I was rather taken aback at the art style on Luna. It's not necessarily the idea of a hell hound, but the art style is very furry.
- Could've had interesting demons and monsters.
  
  NO, MAKE THE DOG HOT AND GIVE HER TITS

And? Is it good?

Lackadaisy is great! I thought hellodaboss was just okay.
- Hellavoboss was kinda bad, but I still hope that Hazbin Hotel will be good

i, as a furry, couldn't ask for anything better than seeing more furries in TV shows. They just look so cute..

It's where the money is. Or so I'm told (⁠٥⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠)

There are 2 types of furries. Those in tech who are suspiciously wealthy, and poor artists who get commissioned by the former. Furries run IT btw. 10+% of my MSP team are furries.