When did you hit peak furry and why? - When a subculture is so incredibly weird and toxic that you want to have nothing to do with it

[Isaac]

I hit peak furry when I had been called a furfag one time too many. That and, at least 40% of /an/ consists of
zoophilic furfags. I cannot even enjoy my Fox Thread, without Kitsune Dani (obscure chan lolcow) shitting up the thread and talking
about how much he wants to have sexual relations with foxes.

Sometimes, I consider writing a short pamphlet called "On The Furfags and Their Lies", then nailing it to the front doors of Discord head office.

 

[Blacklight]

My job leaves me interacting with them on a constant basis, to
the point I would consider myself part furry as a result.
Its the god damn two faced politics that has infested the fandom that makes me hate it, it went from 'tolerance to a fault' into 'all who oppose are bigots and must be silenced'.

The best part is some of the most vocal in the community regarding this topic are starting to get the very censorship they championed turned on them, getting exactly what they deserve.

I'm afraid to ask what your job is. Receptionist at a hotel or something in the hospitality sector?

 

[NoonmanR]

I almost ended up as one when i was a kid, mostly because an internet forum i went to was full of hypersexual coomers who were into that. Thankfully i had places like ED that more or less gave me a good idea of what was up and i ended up leaving the forum before any real damage was done, though it got me real paranoid about that shit, to the point where occasionally people think i'm being closeted.

On some level i get it, the core idea is more akin to xenophilia than actual dogfucking, but the reality is that it's just a degeneracy multiplier, and it's practitioners have an unusually high amount of pedophiles in their ranks, yet seem to care more about policing wrongthink.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Immediately because they're gross.

I came across two, seperately, about ten years ago before I knew what they were. The first one was an admitted 30+ year old virgin who used to constantly simp over human actresses, then slowly began replacing them with Lola Bunny and MLP characters before descending into the realm of OCs. The second one was a woman who made fursuits and modeled them by posting photos of herself in fetish gear in a dirty house. These weren't even on particularly degenerate corners of the internet, one was a music forum and the other was for sewing.

They were both creepy and greasy and probably on the spectrum, but neither (as far as I saw) were into diapers or pedophilia so they were on the milder end of furrydom.

 

[potato in mah painus]

I'm afraid to ask what your job is. Receptionist at a hotel or something in the hospitality sector?

The latter, to keep it broad and avoid PLing.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

I hit peak furry when I had been called a furfag one time too many.

Relatable.

 

[Corn Flakes]

That would be 2003 for me.

I had become aware of the furry fandom in '98, when I saw a news piece on them while visiting family in California. That's when they started registering on my radar and I started following furry drama as a hobby. I already thought they were weird, but I only hit Peak Furry when I saw the immediate backlash against This Sordid Little Business. I remember thinking to myself "well, that's a lot of people defending dogfucking". That made me realize just how fucking broken furries were as a group.

And it all went downhill from there. Not gonna lie, it's been an entertaining 24 years. I feel like one of these people who have been watching Days of Our Lives for decades, only there are cast changes every other month and all the characters are irredeemably insane.

 

[Krystal]

Consider me one all you want, but I wouldn't mind a putting a fursuit for once out of curiosity and I'm numbed over the porn. Some art is hit or miss where it's something I wouldn't mind on like a shirt or poster but others... not so much. However, my breaking point would be if someone tries to grope/hug me without permission (not that I would give it anyway). I've heard that's a problem similar to anime cons were there is inappropriate touching so I think that would be my dealbreaker to just nope out and ruin it for me. Cosplay/Fursuits don't equal consent remember.

 

[NevskyProspekt]

Aside from the usual degenerate behaviors mentioned previously, for me it was their insistence on claiming anything featuring anthropomorphic characters into their camp. Anthropomorphizing animals has been a human practice as long as humans have existed, because it's an extremely useful creative tool and allows certain things that would be more difficult to execute or emphasize with just humans. Likewise people who happen to feature anthropomorphic characters in their creative works often get hounded by furfags who assume the creator is 'one of them'. Some even extend it to the expectation that said creator's work should bend towards catering to their fandom exclusively. It's extremely irritating.

 

[SCSI]

Sometime in the late 90s when I was admiring the craftsmanship in some costuming work posted on some long-gone Goth forum, and made the mistake of clicking too many subsequent links in a webring and stumbling upon my first fursuit with a... "convenience opening." You can imagine my disappointment after waiting 60 seconds for that high-rez progressive scan GIF to sloooowly load over 56K dialup, only to be presented with the wearable version of "OwO what's this??"

 

[The Great Chandler]

Hearing from a fur friend's experience at a con. He safely described many of them as sweaty, openly perverted, and lacking self-awareness.

In a personal note, you can have the weirdest kinks in the planet. Just whatever you do, don't take it personal when other people point out how weird you are and don't bother trying to ruin others' lives over it. Only chads don't take their weird ass lifestyles personal.

Just for the love of God, don't be a fucken pedophile!

 

[Krystal]

I'd like to imagine peak furry for some may have been rainfurrest. There's no way someone didn't leave the fandom after that. Especially since most of the attendees IIRC were ones that got banned from other furry conventions for the same reasons it became such a disaster (kinks, drugs, etc). Though I guess it's also step one of con etiquette of what not to do at a convention. While were at it, the chlorine bombing may have also been peak and decided not worth it.

 

[Some Badger]

I'd like to imagine peak furry for some may have been rainfurrest. There's no way someone didn't leave the fandom after that. Especially since most of the attendees IIRC were ones that got banned from other furry conventions for the same reasons it became such a disaster (kinks, drugs, etc). Though I guess it's also step one of con etiquette of what not to do at a convention. While were at it, the chlorine bombing may have also been peak and decided not worth it.

I think a lot of the uninitiated peak when they’re caught in the crossfire of a particularly bad con. I feel like I hear more horror stories with each passing year.

 

[zuG]

I cannot even enjoy my Fox Thread, without Kitsune Dani (obscure chan lolcow) shitting up the thread and talking
about how much he wants to have sexual relations with foxes.

A lot of these 4chan threadshitters are just desperate attention whores. Part of the problem with 4chan is that normal users encourage these people by responding to the threadshitting.

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Discovering the webcomic "Jack" by David Hopkins at some point back in the mid-aughts.

Edit to add Rapey Dave's thread on here for those young enough and/or fortunate enough to never have come across this particular cow.

 

[Krystal]

I think a lot of the uninitiated peak when they’re caught in the crossfire of a particularly bad con. I feel like I hear more horror stories with each passing year.

Oh definitely, or they have that one experience that ruins the mood. Usually from other con goers forgetting to keep their hands to themselves/being unnecessarily creepy.

 

[FatMebius]

If a dude wants to jack off to weird furry drawings in the privacy of his own home? Whatever. That's his prerogative. But, they're not the ones I take issue with. I hate furries for the same reason I hate lifestyle BDSM people and leather dog faggots. They have to announce to everyone what they're doing at all times. They make every facet of their identity revolve around their fetish. It was at a comic convention when I first really started to hate them. When I saw some half-naked, blue-haired fat man(Troon? Unsure.) with paws and a tail, I was visibly disgusted. He was smelly and filthy and was coming on very strongly to a friend of mine.

 

[Dyn]

I hit peak furry in a stairwell at the 2014 Anthrocon in Chicago.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Probably when I accidentally joined a furry server on Discord.

Shit was vile after a few hours. Nice people when they weren't creaming their pants over the cat from Persona or Animal Crossing characters. They were annoyingly lewd, almost to unbearable levels.

I was never a furry myself but, I called myself a pseudo-furry in my youth. Seeing the degeneracy unfold before my eyes made me reverse course to being a normal human being.

That said, I don't hate furries. People can wank it to Cinderace or whatever the fuck, as long as I do not have to look at it. I think my problem with furries comes with all the open degeneracy, the lewd personality trait that every fucking furry I encounter seems to have, all the fetish shit, it's just too much.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Apologies for bumping the thread.

I don't hate furries, kinda like the idea of anthroponorphic critters in fiction.

But the mere fact that so many of them treat it like a bona-fide identity, lifestyle, or worse, sexuality.

Like for instance, this:

https://twitter.com/JustAnothrGiant/status/1520425744140148736

I remember a time when furries would become visibly miffed by the thought of the furfag fandom being compared to the struggles that LGBTQ people had in order to be accepted, or at least tolerated, in society. They saw their cringy hobby as just that: a cringy hobby, and they didn't bat an eye over people insulting it, and even they would poke fun at the furry fandom and its excesses all the time.

Nowadays, you have people taking it very seriously, and now it's in the same category as identifying as nonbinary, pansexual, etc.