“Most people in furry subcultures remember the shirtless dancing buff tigers used in Zootopia‘s marketing that most took to more or less mean, ‘Hey furries - we know your community has an eye for masculine forms, so to speak,'” he says. Furry is a nexus for queer art and queer people, and it’s one of the few places in particular gay men and masculine queers get to have some decent representation in our media, and queer men and masculine people are kind of starving for that.” And while it’s common for basically any masculine-coded anthropomorphized character to immediately become the subject of steamy fan art, with Mr. Wolf, furries did so “at lightning speed,” he says. Wolf is coded as an “older gentleman” - in short, a daddy type - further excited the fandom, says Seibert). Not everyone frames their adoration for Mr. “For me personally it’s because of his charming personality, the way he talks, moves, and his generally appealing design and clean artistic style,” says a 22-year-old furry artist. “The character designers and animators did such a great job of bringing him to life in the medium of animation and how expressive the wolf could get with his eyes, ears, and body movements.” It’s worth noting, however, that describes himself in his Twitter bio as “Mr.
