SJIS based emoticons were based on the original Mona Cat who exclaimed "You people have too much free time," prompting all others to copy the cat face, adding variants until soon every anonymous 2channer used the cat face as their own, in essence becoming cats, often showing a white human body and a cat head, meant as an anthromorphized abstraction of their self, a cat based persona, or fursona, as posters preferred to identify themselves as emotional cat people in order to form a common bond of understanding and love. Therefore you are all furries.
No one cares about furries anymore but other furries.
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（# ｀ハ´） ＜AIYA! I am not a furry!
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I could bet you watched Looney Tunes or anything made by Disney as a child. Therefore you are a furry.