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Fursonas are pure narcissism. Imagine if non-furries acted like furries: you open someone's social media and if every pic they upload is commissioned artwork of their (human) selves. You walk into their home and the walls are covered in self-portrait paintings. You chat with them and they reply with 'stickers' of pictures of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions. Pure narcissism.
Ever heard of Bitmoji? Or Apple's Genmoji thing? People do create stickers of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions, it's fairly popular... And most of Instagram is people posting thirst traps and selfies. Not sure why you're singling out furries here...
Instagram?
This is also selection bias, the furries that dont upload their art every day and make it their profile pic aren't seen, only the ones that do.