I also hate the term popufur kind of but it’s sort of unavoidable to use in modern furry compared to in the past, content 100% have massive influence on the fandom now which was a thing before sure but mostly restricted to YouTubers
Follower count 100% has a part in it but overall fandom outreach and what you’re actually bringing to the space socially seems to have more power than follower count alone…I’ve seen many tik tok or twitter furs with 100k+ but not considering popufur despite follower count
One thing interesting to me is that people seem to define a “popufur” as a thing that happens once you’re over a certain follower count (10k, 40k, 100k etc) when I think it has wayyy more to do with how prevalent you are in the irl scene and consistently posting content
