I see one of my commissions in the opening post
I wasn't aware of this group, but this provides an opportunity as well. Since I'm a junior, I can't create a topic, so I hope you can forgive me for putting it up here.
I've been wondering this for a while now. Furry, for most people, is a dirty word. It became pretty much mainstream to piss on it after an episode of CSI were the fandom was put into its current box.
So what I've noticed from this, is that the average Joe now associates the furry fandom with any games, series whatever other media that features anthropomorphic characters.
I consider this an extremely bad thing.
That's not because I view the fandom as something inherently bad, it's mostly that it has gotten a serious stigma on it. When I hear people like Tim Schafer from Doublefine on a podcast saying he doesn't want to play Khajit in Skyrim, because it's a furry and he doesn't want to have anything to do with that, to me it is absolutely, mindbogglingly ridiculous.
Going further on that, we see pretty much anything with anthro characters immediately being labelled as furry. From Solatorobo, to Dust an Elysian Tail, they automatically get stigmatised on social media, Youtube, you name it.
So as a result, I believe it's nearly impossible to have a show, game, whatever with anthropomorphic characters getting popular, UNLESS overly cartoony and injected with a lot of humour such as Spongebob, Regular Show OR if it's an existing franchise from quite a while back such as Sonic.
I was wondering what people think of this and if I'm thinking correctly on this topic at all. I personally find it rather frustrating to see amazing works of art like Solatorobo being put into a box like that, without people ever giving it a proper chance for the quality game that it is. In turn, we're seeing less and less of these sorts of games because they no longer make any money.