What do you think about the Furry Fandom

[Vault101]

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Is that a Garrus dog? lol

Honestly all I've heard is the "furry piles" and... multi-racial bestiality?
Its not been very good for you guys I agree. But I suppose a girl with cat ears at a convention would look sort a cute.

You can blame the media for it. I did see a CSI episode once about furries, can imagine it would be pretty offensive to you.

yes...it is a Garrus dog

did I jsut "furrie-fie" Garrus?..I'd liek to think not (and lets not get started on him.."popping the heatsink"

anyway..CSI? oh christ..dont give thos peopel anything remotly niche..they'll butcher it to death (then again not nearly as awful as the "magical MMO girl" from NCIS...or *shudder* that part in law and order where a women met her husband "at an xbox tournament in south korea..he had the cutest avatar" wrong...SO WRONG

anyway the dog charachter is from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/FootrotFlats?from=Main.FootrotFlats

 

[Dtox333]

I'm not a furry myself, but I have a lot of respect for furry fans. their fascination with anthropomorphism is as old as human civilization itself.

I think the fandom is ok, some furries I'v come across can be total jerks and hypocrites, but hey that's with every group of people, so it doesn't really matter.

one thing that's annoyed the total CRAP out of me is how people have skewed the definition of anthropomorphism. I look at a dog on all 4s that can talk, and I say "oh, it's anthropomorphic" and someone corrects me with "no no no, it's feral, athro would be standing up," and I just sit there thinking "um....there's no difference." same thing with the whole "gijinka" thing, cute girls with animal ears/tails and stuff, people try to categorize them as being completely different than being anthropomorphic, but it's ALL the same thing, and would all fall under being part of the furry fandom.

EDIT: I would also like to add something.

just simply liking something with anthropomorphic characters (my little pony, loony tunes, certain disney films, etc.) does not make someone a furry. if their REASONS for liking something is BECAUSE it has anthropomorphic characters, THEN that'd make them a furry, because it's the anthropomorphism that's attracting them.

even liking the rule 34 of certain anthropomorphic characters doesn't instantly constitute as being a furry, because it could just be that characters personality and other such immaterial qualities that they find attractive.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

It's a horrible fandom. Which is really sad, considering i genuinely like some of their art and i know a few furries who are pretty decent people. But sadly those seem to be a minority. The biggest or at least the most vocal part of the fandom is now just about sexualizing things (and i don't really like any kind of drawn porn. Well... or porn in general, to be honest), catfighting (no pun intended) and some really weird stuff. You know, i'm german and people drawing anthros in fetishized Nazi uniforms just kinda offend me. And... again, it's sad, there's some pretty amazing anthro art but there are just too many perverts, crybabies and weirdoes in the fandom.

 

[Qitz]

I don't know any personally, least none that are confirmed, there were a couple of college friends who I suspected but never cared enough to outright ask them.

I used to watch an awesome podcast by a couple of furries but since 2 AND JIBBa HAVEN'T PUT ONE OUT IN A MILLION YEARS I haven't had any interactions with it.

Basically it's whatever floats your boat man. I wouldn't kick someone out of bed for being a furry.

The all-new Chevy Sonic can fuck itself right off that god damn road it's driving on!

 

[Fappy]

These responses are far more tame than I would expect. I go to Dragon*Con every year in Atlanta and I usually consider myself an open-minded kind of guy. However, I must admit when I see some furries hanging around I usually look for the emergency exit...

People have the right to express themselves however the hell they want as long as its not hurting anyone, and I have the right to be terrified of them

 

[JochemHippie]

Nice people, it's basically the reason I'm in it for.
Went to a convention a few years back in London, was originally in another hall for a different convention. Went there for the shit of it, went out with a lot new friends.
That and the art looks great.

 

[DugMachine]

I think its pretty odd.. but people think i'm odd my interests in video games, tattoos electronics so if you like animal people I won't judge as long as you don't shove it down my throat.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[TehCookie]

I find anthro characters adorable, but the fetish kind of scares me. Also fursonas are a bit too much like fanfic characters, the middle school girl fantasy kind.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

The sexual parts weird me out, and the non-sexual part usually involves furries claiming that if you like Looney Toons and old Disney, you're a furry, which /really/ bugs me. I like those old cartoons, but it's not because of some aesthetic appreciation for anthropomorphized animals.

Edit: It's not even the rule 34 that bugs me; it's the fursuits, fursonas, and the knowledge that yiff exists. Brain bleach, please.

 

[KrabbiPatty]

I'm a Furry.

Also a Brony.

Not ashamed. Though I will say that my interest in anthro art is almost entirely sexual, while my interest in MLP is entirely non-sexual, so I think it's safe to say that they come from two different places.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

since Furry Fandom has become more mainstream and more accepting i was curious on what you guys think about the Fandom if you are unaware of the Fandom well here you go.

I'm fine with the furry fandom, mostly because I am a furry myself.

I'm not sure if I would say the furry fandom has become more "mainstream." It was only just over a year ago that I discovered the fandom and realised I was part of it and I know now that furries have been around a LOT longer than that. I think the culture and its participants have simply becaome more accessible with the rise of the internet. So much more information can be shared amongst our fellow furries without us needing to leave the comfort of our prejudice free homes. Certainly the amount of conventions that happen is a clear indicator that there is a significantly large fan base but I think this is simply a result of the aforementioned connectivity we share.

I very much doubt furries will ever shake the negative aspects that have been attached to us by people who don't understand the fandom. I mean all you have to do is type furry into Google and you know the most prevailent examples will be pornography. But what I have seen so far is a vast, friendly and very accepting community; something that you don't find all that often on the internet. If all it takes for such civility to breed is an afinity for anthropomorphized animals, then I say that can't be a bad thing.

However, I must admit when I see some furries hanging around I usually look for the emergency exit...

I think its a little disgusting and hanging around with furries makes me feel so uncomfortable I need to get the hell out of where ever I am fast.

Not to judge, just being honest.

Colour me intrigued. Aside from the sexual elements (which is an understandably awkward aspect for non-furries to consider) it is not like furries are known to be dangerous, unhinged lunatics (or are we?) What aspect of the furry fandom makes you so uncomfortable? I'm also not here to judge, just curious is all.

 

[Woodsey]

People can jack it to whatever they want, makes no difference to me.

 

[Fappy]

since Furry Fandom has become more mainstream and more accepting i was curious on what you guys think about the Fandom if you are unaware of the Fandom well here you go.

I'm fine with the furry fandom, mostly because I am a furry myself.

I'm not sure if I would say the furry fandom has become more "mainstream." It was only just over a year ago that I discovered the fandom and realised I was part of it and I know now that furries have been around a LOT longer than that. I think the culture and its participants have simply becaome more accessible with the rise of the internet. So much more information can be shared amongst our fellow furries without us needing to leave the comfort of our prejudice free homes. Certainly the amount of conventions that happen is a clear indicator that there is a significantly large fan base but I think this is simply a result of the aforementioned connectivity we share.

I very much doubt furries will ever shake the negative aspects that have been attached to us by people who don't understand the fandom. I mean all you have to do is type furry into Google and you know the most prevailent examples will be pornography. But what I have seen so far is a vast, friendly and very accepting community; something that you don't find all that often on the internet. If all it takes for such civility to breed is an afinity for anthropomorphized animals, then I say that can't be a bad thing.

However, I must admit when I see some furries hanging around I usually look for the emergency exit...

I think its a little disgusting and hanging around with furries makes me feel so uncomfortable I need to get the hell out of where ever I am fast.

Not to judge, just being honest.

Colour me intrigued. Aside from the sexual elements (which is an understandably awkward aspect for non-furries to consider) it is not like furries are known to be dangerous, unhinged lunatics (or are we?) What aspect of the furry fandom makes you so uncomfortable? I'm also not here to judge, just curious is all.

Fuck my whole post just got eaten alive. TL;DR version - most of the furries I have seen at cons (D*Con anyway, don't think many furries dress up for Comic Con) are not afraid to display their in-character affection for each other. The sexual aspect is what creeps me out and its what I have been more knowingly exposed to.

 

[Whitbane]

I've seen worse on the internet. This is mild to what you can find.
I've seen some things, man, some scary things.

Captcha: Perfect World. I can hope...

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

My only interaction with furries has been on Champions Online.

So many fucking yiffing wolves...

But other than that I'm sure they're just the same as any other group of people. There are the good furries grounded in reality and there are the bad ones that jerk it to Renamon all day.