So it was kinda consensual?

I didn’t even realize until I saw this comment. Maybe they got sonic super hearing now

now you made it look weird why did you have to point it out

They are for "humans" hearing and for "animals" hearing

sooo how do the hear….?

.... Does that amplifies their hearing

The animal ears likely have no hearing functionality and are just a biproduct of tithe way they hey evolved into more humanoid shapes. The ears are more part of the hair than the ears at that point.

I think one of the problems is that human head is not shaped to have ears that grows above... And in turn, if the artist wants it realistically, our ears will shaped like an animal's but doesn't look nice aesthetically... If do it aesthetically however, removing human ears will look a bit harder to draw or looks uncanny/weird(although can be solve by covering it with hair but it can limit hairstyles)... Some artist just say f*ck it and draw with or without human ears (whatever looks best)... I think the best ears with animal characteristics is that bunny girl in MHA but it works cuz she has long ears...

Tldr... It's just easier to draw them with 4 ears instead of thinking it anatomically

Final Fantasy XIV has only ears on top and they handle the weirdness of the jaw connecting directly the side of the face pretty well. Not to dispute what you said persay but just to share an instance of the opposite actually working.

so its basically hair? if something evolves to have other limbs such as ears the other ears shouldn't be there because the species have evolved to better the species meaning they lose useless limbs to keep the species balanced, after all human ears have very poor hearing, they have no use for them and it throws of the anatomy balance, meaning the human ears shouldn't really be there...plus the human and animal ears looks weird and causes it to not be aesthetically pleasing. (srry for the mouthful almost paragrapgh, im just a BIG science and species evolution geek, i cant help it!) ┗( T﹏T )┛

Evolution does not always support what is “better”, as humans we are actually quite frail for instance. I obviously have 0 idea why artists choose to keep both sets of ears, but I find it silly that so many people are angry about it. The ears could easily be more about signaling than they are about hearing. For instance, canines have body language cues that go as far as their ears.
If we are talking about useless appendages, than they should have no tails either. But no one complains about that.
So what you find to be aesthetically displeasing may actually be great for someone else. As stated before, the way the jaw connects to the neck can look really off when you remove the human ears.

what are "ears" ??

Ear, the one besides the head, they're two and are used for hearing
(sorry of this comes off as condescending/offensive, I'm replying assuming you're asking bc you genuinely don't knowidk how to explain this better)

Yea, I know what you are saying. It's just majority of the artist just don't want to think anatomically and just wants the aesthetics of animal characteristics on a human body...

Amazing of them to be able to work around it. Thank you for sharing tho, I will look up to that for reference because having 2 sets of ears does irk me a bit lol

This is Supernatural so it doesn't need to have any logical meaning. Everything is possible. It can be just a fashion choice, they are there, because it looks better. Mainly, I think it's based on author.

I just want with "animal ears is so they can understand animals and human ears is for normal hearing" bc this is what others told me.

lmaooo i was making a csm reference sorry if i confused you i may have spent 2 hours in er yesterday but i am still able to think ig

*sorry, accident click dislike

Everytime I come across these stories, the double ears bother me like crazy.

Really? I never thought it could be that bad?!
I just see it as a cosplays with moving ears.

Personally when irl cosplayers does this idrc but when artists does this with their "anthropomorphic" storyline it does bothers me lmao