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[Uncle]

Disney movies, manga, mascots, a lot of human history and mythology etc. You could provide examples, because videogames were built on anthropomorphic characters. Do you hate Crash Bandicoot?

Uh, yes, mascots are weird and the fact that people have sexualized and fetishized them is creepy. And Crash indeed is ugly like most art created in the mid-to-late 1990s.

And video games were built on anthropomorphic characters? Like uh... Sonic? Whose fandom (like Nepenthe) proves the point about animals I think.

hmm if I was going to be charitable, early gaming was pretty full of goofy animals, kind of mimicking children's TV and cereal mascots at the time

flicky, mappy, frogger, rampage, battletoads, licensed games like duck tales and ninja turtles

after sonic everyone wanted to copy his success and we got aero the acrobat, bubsy, sparkster, a bunch of forgotten 16-bit games like awesome possum and rolo to the rescue