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There is no doubt a point where if it was a joke it spins out beyond the bounds or irony.

I did watch an interesting video breaking down why people jack off to furry porn though. Or rather it was about the pony-porn phenomenon but could be extended to furry stuff too. It sort of relies upon the idea that the lizard brain theory and shit though, if you buy into that.
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I suspect Disney was at least partially responsible for the furry thing. A mixture of that and social rejection that leads people to identify with peculiar shit. With MLP, that always felt manufactured, like it was a joke that some people started to take seriously. It is like the big kids telling the little kids that dirt tastes good to fool the little kids into eating dirt, which caused the little kids to eat the dirt and feel so pressured into liking it that they eventually decide it was true and started lapping it up. The internet's version of the Asch Conformity Experiment, I suppose. 

But to actually go as far as putting fleshlights in pony dolls... there has to be some serious social rejections involved there.