I just can't, and sadly it's worst in Linux community. Like dude's face hair makes him look 45, but no, he does a desktop with a cringy looking 15 old anime girl. (That, on top of hiz annoyingly high pitched voice but whatever) I just stop watching the video on the spot, it's beyond dumb.
The stupid NSFW tag on Lemmy? I turned it ON to occasionally see boobs, not some drawn pictures of underage kiddo, this pisses me off so much, JUST FCKING STAHP with this shit.
I have an impression suddenly, in a span of 2 years everyone started to jerk off on that bullshit and are proud to show it
The same thing furries represent. Just characters, that don't necessarily have an age, or gender, or species. It's the abstract representation of something you can project onto for various fantasies. Maybe they like that they're small, or cute, but don't necessarily relate it to a real life kid. When I look at furry stuff I'm not thinking about it in terms of real animals. They're completely different and they only bear a superficial resemblance to animals, just like an anime character only bears a superficial resemblance to a human.