Simple, back then there weren't degenerates to fetishize the gods and beasts :P

I don't know, man. I think these people have always existed. They just didn't have a convenient website to congregate in. :P

That's a possibility as well.

What furry community were you a part of to get it completely wrong? You stupid little fuck, it's arguably the other way around. Not to mention "Then" had tons of femboys as well. Are you a little piss baby boomer? Do you beat your children because they are uwu-ing when they should be murring?
Maybe you should take a hard look in the mirror and realize that more art than before exists in the style of "then" than before, and you're the problem because you're too busy looking for femboys. You sick mongoloid inbred knuckle dragging neanderthal, don't blame the furry community for your love of femboys.
Be better rather than a loser.

Well, that was an interesting comment. Enough about your crippling insecurities about femboys, though. How did you like the pic? :)

By the way, the term you're looking for is "androgynous". This silly little meme is comparing how anthropomorphic creatures of myth were almost universally feared and awe-inspiring, compared to the diabetes-inducingly generic cuteness of a lot of furry characters. If you perceived it as being about femboys and decided to go full nuclear on it and start trying to swing insults around like they mean anything -- on a fresh account with no submissions, no less -- that says some pretty damning things about you instead.

Thank you for the laugh, though! Oh, and enjoy your block. :P

Despite the meme, I think current anthropomorphic characters trace their heritage to more mundane fables far more than they do to the awe-inspiring mythological gods and monsters of old. Sekhmet and the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, the minotaur, or werewolves of old... none of them really match how furry characters have been since the furry fandom became a thing in the 70s.

A much closer match would be the popular folklore stories (like Aesop's fables) about intelligent but otherwise non-human animals starring in stories that often had a culturally-relevant moral attached to them. As time went on, they developed into their own character archetypes (the cunning fox, the enthusiastic bunny, the thieving rat, the greedy pig...) and once the mass-circulated newspaper became a thing their cartoonists got their hands on those characters and made them popular as allegories and metaphors in their critiques. Eventually they went from anatomically-correct animals with human postures to more human-like (if cartoonish) anatomy and... well... Disney got his hands on them. The rest is history. :P

I cant wait to see the dog version of this featuring Anubis. Absolutely hilarious, bravo!

I originally intended to use Anubis for it, but I couldn't find a good enough badass line for him. And really, Sekhmet's origin story is a lot more metal than anything Anubis did. :P

Fair enough I suppose

Perhaps it's a result of the influence of anime where everything is super-kawaii with BEEEEG ANIME EYES?

Funnily enough, as much anime influence furry characters (and certainly my style!) have, anime and manga themselves have been massively influenced by Western animation post-war. Namely, Disney. So I guess we can all blame Walt for it. :P

Yup, Osamu Tezuka in particular was a fan of Disney.

So true! And love this outfit where the hair (or wig) barely covers the nipples.

Clearly you're not following the right artists.