Retail giant applauds weird “fursuit” image
Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet.com
October 18, 2018
Retail giant Walmart has caused confusion by appearing to encourage the bizarre ‘Furry’ subculture.
A twitter user called BlondeFoxy (a furry) tweeted a picture of themselves wearing a ‘Walmart head’ as a part of their “fursuit”.
These Walmart heads are so cute and super affordable. I’m going to modify this one to kinda show some of my younger followers the potential these things really have ❤️ #furryfandom #fursuit pic.twitter.com/Ul9hx6PAE5
— Lucky Coyote🌵 (@BlondeFoxy) October 18, 2018
Walmart responded, saying: “mentoring fursuiters for the next generation? Nicely done, Lucky.”
Mentoring fursuiters for the next generation? Nicely done, Lucky.
— Walmart (@Walmart) October 18, 2018
Many reacted with mock horror at the weird juxtaposition of a glorified supermarket interacting with a human pretending to be an animal:
— Shit Boi (@Liam_Giblin) October 18, 2018
— 🎃jessica. (@JessicaonRS) October 18, 2018
Furries, for the uninitiated, are an internet subculture fandom who anthropomorphize animals. Furries dress up, wearing full-sized ‘Fursuits’ to fit their ‘Fursonas’, and meet up at conventions.
Yes, this is a real thing.
There is, of course, a sexual element to the Furry scene and it is regarded by many to be a fetish. There are even linguistic terms used solely to describe sexual activities for Furries, such as “yiffing” (the sound foxes make during sex, obviously).
Furries on the internet are generally overly sexual. Frosted Flakes, a cereal by the brand Kellogg’s, once had to ask twitter Furries to keep it PG as too many of them were sexualizing Frosties’ mascot Tony the Tiger and sending them anthropomorphic animal porn. Kellogg’s then resorted to mass blocking…