Jessica Rabbit for me
In a flash I was sent back, to the moment where it all began, psychically traveling to a gloomy Saturday afternoon in 1988.
I was sitting on the orange velvet couch watching “Catteries Not Included,” when suddenly, an arousingly confident Gadget Hackwrench appeared and asked for my help fixing the ever-beleaguered Screaming Eagle. I don’t know, I acquiesced. And as I handed her the hog ring pliers, her fuzzy digits grazed mine, and in that moment, truly, I was wooooke.
Onyx is that you?
Except it would be on one of these bad boys.
I mean, there is a direct path from the marketing mindset that gave us OG He-Man to Andrew Tate.
And from Barbie to the Kardashians.
Masturs of the Universe!
Not on THAT TV
I miss furniture TVs.
I have bad internet right now but if you say you didn’t I won’t believe you
I wonder if there’s a correlation between the rise in sexy anthropomorphized animals and furries.
When I was younger they absolutely had humanized animals in cartoons, but they were super modest if they were human-ish, otherwise they were just talking animals. At some point we gave them…”generous” human attributes.
Here’s the original sexy-dog version of Betty Boop cast as a sex worker a sailor visits in 1930. This stuff has been going in in cartoons for about as long as there have been cartoons.
There’s exceptions, of course you’re right. But it became way more common in and after the 1980s. Even in earlier cartoons there were “sexy” animal humans, but they were usually mocking the human, not actually there to be human. Even in your example the anthropomorphizing is weird, not really Lola Bunny part of the show.
The explanation everyone is missing here is the Hays Code.
Pre code movies from the 20’s and 30’s can be quite racy, even occasionally including things like gay people.
Oh certainly. I do recall several cartoons (reruns from ‘40s and earlier) that had deer or other animals turning into smokin’ hot pinup farm girls luring inept farm boys on the hunt or to explain the male animal’s lust. Then again, the appearance was often brief and they tended to not be three dimensional characters like modern ones.
My off the cuff guess would be the success of who framed Roger rabbit even if Jessica rabbit was not an animal.
There are probably at least two factors, as someone who is unfit to comment this confidently on the question.
On the one hand you have a coming of age of kids who were exposed to a high dose of Warner Brothers smut.
Many of them are coming of age at the same time as the internet, making it easier for a niche community to form or be found and grow.
This seems totally plausible but again, I’m bereft of actual knowledge on this topic and I’m at least partially trying to provoke someone better fit to the question to educate me.
Jessica Rabbit says hi.
It doesn’t mean you have a thing for rabbits
Doesn’t mean that you don’t
Just sowing the seeds for Zootopia.
I believe I can fly!
