Look, we get it. With the social distancing protocols in place across the world, it's tough to find good, lighthearted content if you're a media company that doesn't peddle in hard news. So our sympathies go out to POPSUGAR for trying to post a gallery of sexy furry Lion King fan art as if it were a brand new thing that people make on the internet.


On Thursday, POPSUGAR posted a gallery of Lion King art drawn by Los Angeles freelance artist Marco Bernard. The drawings feature humanoid depictions of Mufasa, Scar, Nala, Rafiki, etc, the lot of them looking muscular and weirdly sexy. Bernard says he was inspired in part by Beastars, a hit anime series which shows humanoid animals in a high school drama.




While the art itself is fine, what made the story noteworthy was the blatant thirst POPSUGAR displayed over the characters. The title of POPSUGAR's piece reads, "An Artist Transforms Lion King Animals Into Humanlike Characters, and I'm Shook by the Results." Author Victoria Messina wrote, "Putting "sexy" and 'The Lion King' in the same sentence may feel somewhat sacrilegious, but one artist has made it feel so, so right." What really drove the story home was POPSUGAR's tweet, which bragged, "We can guarantee you've never seen The Lion King characters like this before…"

Now, if you've been on the internet for more than 30 minutes or if you've visited this very website, then you have definitely seen The Lion King characters like this (or worse) before. Twitter users were more than happy to let POPSUGAR know that sexy animated character fan art was not exactly groundbreaking internet territory.







Welcome, POPSUGAR, to the furry fandom. You have a lot to learn.


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oyus

I honestly find it funny how offended some people get over SFW furry art. If you showed this to anyone in 1995 nobody would've seen anything weird about it. In fact it'd probably be pretty popular on Saturday morning TV.

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Nue7ra1

reminds me of the "cutesy wutesy fucky wucky" thing. funny, seems like the internet is moving in circles sometimes.

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sborbl

Didn't the whole "oopsy woopsy we made a fucky wucky uwu" thing started from mocking how furries talk online? Because I'm pretty sure they're the ones responsible for about 90% of all r/creepyasterisks babytalk.

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Nox Lucis

Will, the original copy pasta comes from Cherrikissu, a well known furry yiff artist. Take that as you will.

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Nue7ra1

it started off with a tweet from the aforementioned artist, and it went viral without them expecting it, suddenly several hundred people discovered furry that day.

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toad_cat

The art is pretty awesome tbh.

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OurDeerLeader

I do love Scarface Scar

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Nox Lucis

That Scar is looking like one dapper gent.

Oh, and for reference, e621 reports roughly ~1,200 current Nala lewds going as far back as 11 years.


That's a lot of lusty lion lewds.
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Jon the Wizard

Popsugar: We can guarantee you've never seen The Lion King characters like this before!
Me: I'm actively trying not to.

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Red123

It's always funny watching normies figure out what the internet really is.

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Aztecelotl

Where are Timon and Pumbaa?

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Nedhitis

I did read on the news that animals were randomly escaping from their confines due to the human quarantine; I did not imagine the situation was this serious.

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