Well I couldn't before

The mask is a classic.

i think it's also a very modern kind of humor, it slots in next to our memes without issue

I don’t doubt it. I grew up on a lot of stuff before my time as well. Jason and the Argonauts was one of my favorites. Me and my brother would laugh ourselves silly at how the stop-motion skeletons ran.

Or…

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice!

no one I knew in IT was a furry

I went to cons and knew furries

The spy has already breached our defenses.

I think its more like a general statistic.

Furries are still a small minority of all people, so the chance your IT crowd has furries is not high.

But on average a furry does have a higher chance to be working in IT.

Same with people who are trans.

There is some natural logic to it. People who are a little different and not always accepted discover a safe haven in computers to connect to like minded people that do accept them. The internet has changed a lot and has become more hostile so those same people went in deeper to arrange and safeguard their own communities.

When your IT crowd does include such people there is also a big chance their not going to tell cause bias and stigma.

Programmers are more likely to be Gamers™ than furries. And the myth that they are leftist/liberal/trans is also a lie. A few famous ones are. The vast majority are just regular dudes (with signifact portion of the being chuds/incels/libertarians/right-wingers/etc).