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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They've been around a long time actually. Somebody had to make mascot costumes, and i imagine that skillset translates pretty well to fursuits

[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Mascots are just commercially acceptable fursonas

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Mascots are corporate / sports fursonas.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And the people behind those corporate fursonas hate it. Horny furries drove cereal mascot Tony the Tiger off of Twitter. XD

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Horny furries got Tony the Tiger off?? 👀

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Tony wouldn't fist any of them, despite wearing the red scarf

[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] night_petal@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

I read through all of this, having been unaware of it happening. "Knot first or pizza first?" madr me actually lol