Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to indict furries as a whole, but to point out the crossover exists because it’s interesting.
Know Your Meme has a good breakdown of the culture, starting in 2005. Wikifur also has an article about it.
And it’s not hard for all of the things he described to be furry. That’s the joke.
If you’re already generating an md5 and truncating it (an md5 of what?), you might as well use pwgen.