The Bunnies Are In Charge
There’s a running joke in the tech industry, to the effect that if somebody really wanted to take down the entire internet, all they’d have to do is find one of the big furry conventions and blow it up. The kernel of truth in the joke is that active participants in the furry fandom are indeed overrepresented in senior tech positions. People who were hanging out on Usenet in alt.fandom.furry in 1991 are at least in their fifties now, and if they’ve kept their noses to the Unix grindstone for thirty years, they now live in the box on the org chart with the dangerous-looking wavy red lines around it and a caption that says “Call in cases of dire emergency only.” They know the deep network magic, and they keep the internet backbone systems up. So, yes: be nice to furries if you want the electrons to keep flowing. It is known.
What’s less well known is that the adult internet in particular depends on rabbits. Bunnies, to be specific. The reasons for this are more murky, at least to me. Some people blame Hugh Hefner. I prefer to think he was, in his rabbit fetish as in so much else, merely a horny man who was ahead of his times. Probably he was just picking up what Bugs Bunny and the Easter bunny were putting down.
Another theory is that it has something to do with all the anthropomorphic rabbits in that seminal work of dark children’s fantasy Watership Down. Could be, I dunno. The Japanese are in on it somehow, too; there are a lot of long-eared bunny girls in manga and erotic anime, for cultural reasons nobody has ever bothered to share with me. But my own first introduction to the mysterious power that rabbits hold over the adult internet came in 2003, when Rabbitsreviews appeared — and has remained ever since — as the category-leading pornsite reviews destination, in the same year that Spanking Blog was founded. Bunnies, man. You can’t turn around and throw a flogger without hitting one!
Image credits, top to bottom: The woman with bunny ears and tail getting spanked and fucked is by Yukiguni Yuu. The cute bunny being held tightly by her ears as she’s bent over for the same treatment is by Polyle. The cheerful rabbit spankee with the heavy male hand on the back of her neck is by HaleXXX. The rope bunny being fondled in a suspension tie after getting her bottom flogged is by Orotsuji.
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