Furry Fandom and Drama General

[Google.com]

What do you all mean by pretend furries? Like Otherkin are the real furries??? Or whatever they rebranded themselves. I've always been of the opinion that there's 3 separate groups with overlap Bronies, Furries, Otherkin.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Idk all "pretend" furries are rapey and as degenerate as their 'founder.'
Then again he was deffo using it as an excuse too.
What I'm saying is if the foundation is pretend has there ever been real furries? Like communism?

For years furries have claimed "it's not sexual!" and that rumors of refashioning stuffed animals into fleshlights and fursuit orgies were largely the fantasy of deranged minds. I'm not sure when the act was dropped, but it was definitely within the last 15 years I'd say.

Very true, but what's the racial breakdown of the furry phenomenon? Wide majority white I'd guess, even measured per-capita. Perhaps the lax policies created downstream of disparate-impact have metastasized into more general disorder? Personally I can totally believe that kids are acting up in this way; the internet is realer than real —especially for an outcast.

I would have to agree that the Internet and the real world have been intersecting in more ways than ever, it's what makes Clown World what it is, but it's weird when they stick up for some outcasts and not others, and if they do, they're not real outcasts. There's going to be that weird kid who everyone thinks is going to be the next school shooter when in reality he just wants a hug and a dad who loves him, no one's paving paths for him.

 

[derpherp2]

What do you all mean by pretend furries? Like Otherkin are the real furries??? Or whatever they rebranded themselves. I've always been of the opinion that there's 3 separate groups with overlap Bronies, Furries, Otherkin.

The obtuse bullshit they use to hide the fact that their fetish isn't a fetish. The part where the "founder" primarily used this shit for his OTHER sexual proclivities. Or a myriad other retardo bullshit.

 

[AnOminous]

What do you all mean by pretend furries? Like Otherkin are the real furries??? Or whatever they rebranded themselves. I've always been of the opinion that there's 3 separate groups with overlap Bronies, Furries, Otherkin.

I mean people like in this dumb story that took over the thread who just adopted some weird furry stuff, but aren't obviously obsessed with specific characters or have any other attributes of furries. Where's the evidence of any of this shit in the zoomer generation of phone cameras of everything? Just like troons, some people realized adopting some "marginalized" identity was a free ticket to act like an absolute piece of shit.

Previously, being a furry just got you beat up.

Seriously it looks like a scam run on stupid teachers.

 

[Toolbox]

I'm not sure when the act was dropped, but it was definitely within the last 15 years I'd say.

It still hasn't entirely been dropped, just like the 'born this way' stuff for trannies hasn't really died yet, because some people on the outer edges genuinely believe these ideas still. If anything it only really started to die during peak acceptance beginning in the mid 2010s, but I think you'll still have people claiming this fandom isn't a sexual thing until the day they die. Some people are just lost.

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

I would have to agree that the Internet and the real world have been intersecting in more ways than ever, it's what makes Clown World what it is, but it's weird when they stick up for some outcasts and not others, and if they do, they're not real outcasts. There's going to be that weird kid who everyone thinks is going to be the next school shooter when in reality he just wants a hug and a dad who loves him, no one's paving paths for him.

Such are the fruits of secularized america's grounding in the revolutionary mythos; the people understand their purpose upon the earth in terms of the ever ongoing revolution and it's promised liberation, and even the government —when all the world is made it's vassal— is still a revolutionary government. Permanent underdog status in one's own eyes is quite a trip.

 

[derpherp2]

It still hasn't entirely been dropped, just like the 'born this way' stuff for trannies hasn't really died yet, because some people on the outer edges genuinely believe these ideas still. If anything it only really started to die during peak acceptance beginning in the mid 2010s, but I think you'll still have people claiming this fandom isn't a sexual thing until the day they die. Some people are just lost.

The ones too retarded to even know how their shit started isn't really helping things. Especially with their constant whinging.

 

[whurz]

It still hasn't entirely been dropped, just like the 'born this way' stuff for trannies hasn't really died yet, because some people on the outer edges genuinely believe these ideas still. If anything it only really started to die during peak acceptance beginning in the mid 2010s, but I think you'll still have people claiming this fandom isn't a sexual thing until the day they die. Some people are just lost.

They're doing the same logic excusing zoophilia, pedophilia, all kind of horrors but I am not allowed to be racist? I demand rights!

 

[Death of an Ego]

nigga it's the same virus that flowers into genderspecial furfaggotry later on in life the school admins are just running a chris chan parenting psy op that everyone against them is just being mean and jealous of them and enable them to weaponize being a faggot while anyone fighting back and telling them to act normal gets in trouble any person with a nourished mentality like that is just gonna grow up to be a fucking niggercattle faggot

I'd have to disagree with you on this one. This is already borne of genderspecialism and other shit pushed on kids by social media peer pressure and the usual suspects. It's not necessarily from some oldschool furry who got that way from a bent mind and watching gadget from rescue rangers back in the day and thinking "mmm, she's a hottie, I think I'll see who else on AOL thinks so too".

This crap is what happens when you don't fight a culture war.

When the culture war is being fought by two reactionary internally squabbling tribes while both are being ripped off while distracted by bullshit, I think it's one of those situations where the winning move is not to play.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I found "Get Furry", an article that appeared in Texas A&M's Battalion student newspaper in 2005. (Wikifur has a small article summarizing it). This was my first time really hearing about furries (I didn't go to Something Awful or whatever) in a real-life setting.(TexAgs notes the author now works for CNN or at least did as of 2021). This is probably wildly inaccurate by all standards but still an entertaining read.

When Brendon Jones gets ready to leave his apartment, he puts on his pants, his shirt and his dog collar. Without the collar he feels upset; almost as though he has no identity.

Jones, a freshman computer engineering major, goes by Sakanz - the name engraved on the metallic blue bone on his dog collar - and is one of thousands of Americans who identifies himself with a group of people that calls itself the furries. He describes furries as people who like to dress up as animals and interact with each other.

"I'd say being a furry is like being something that you feel is more yourself than being a human," Jones said. "Some people identify more with animals than humans."

Jones said that a majority of furries are homosexual or bisexual, and often engage in sexual activities with each other while adapting the mindset and donning costumes of specific animals. Two furries rubbing up against each other is called "yiffing," and they sometimes make noises that their chosen animal would make.

The Internet has served as the main networking method for furries to find others with this same fetish, and people like Sakanz attend conferences specifically for furries to meet. In the Bryan-College Station community, Jones and his roommate know 12 furries and try to hold meetings occasionally. About four furries go to Texas A&M;, he said.

Jones describes himself as being an "otherkin," a person who believes he or she was an animal in a past life and still carries its spirit. Jones believes he is a raptor, and wishes he had a tail and scales so he could be more like the animal he has always admired. He tries to assimilate the raptor way of life into his own because he believes it's better than the human way of life.

"(Raptors' lives are) more basic," he said. "You don't have to spend four years in college to get a good job to live. They can just hunt; they don't have to starve if they can't afford food.

At one point last semester, Jones tried to construct a raptor suit to feel more like a raptor, but the process was time consuming, and he soon gave up. Other furries, however, sometimes wear entire body suits or simply a tail or ears to identify themselves with the animal they more closely relate to.

This way of life hasn't always gone smoothly for Jones; people's reactions to his dog collar aren't always pleasant.

"One person asked if I got my rabies shot," he said. "I just ignored him."

Alex Harder, a freshman biomedical science major, lived with Jones for two and a half weeks at the beginning of the school year in a dorm room after the two were randomly assigned to live together. Harder wasn't happy with his assignment. During their time together, Harder slowly learned about Jones' lifestyle and decided he didn't want to live with Jones anymore.

"I was probably a (jerk) when he moved out," Harder said. "I was really scared. I didn't know what to do. I told him I couldn't live with his lifestyle."

Harder said that before Jones told him the specifics of being a furry, he noticed a number of drawings of foxes adorning Jones' walls, and when asked, Jones told him that they were pictures of his boyfriend.

Piles and piles of stuffed animals could be found around the room, he said, and recounts walking in on his roommate lying disrobed between the bed sheets with every single one of them.

"I didn't know what to do," Harder said. "I talked to my mom, and she said it was really gross and perverted."

Jones explained that he liked the stuffed animals because they look like animals, and they are "fun to snuggle with." Snuggling and cuddling are a big part of Jones' draw to the furry fandom, or culture.

"(Snuggling is) one of the side effects of being a furry," Jones said.

Jones' sexuality and lifestyle bothered Harder, and eventually Jones moved out of the dorm room into his own apartment.

Arnold Leunes, an A&M; professor of psychology, said that because many furries are homosexual, and their behavior could be an alternate way to manifest their sexual preferences.

"It strikes me that there's a sexual motive," Leunes said. "It's not easy being gay in this society. (This) might be an attempt to find a little gentler touch to the whole thing. Americans aren't too at ease with sex anyway."

Because people like Jones and some of his other Furry friends became involved as furries when they didn't fit in with any particular clique in high school, Leunes thinks their furry antics may be an attention-grabbing mechanism.

"Kids tend to be outrageous sometimes, " he said. "That's one of the nice things about being young; you can do some crazy, outrageous things."

Source

 

[Roxanne Wolf]

Does this already have a thread? Some freak died gooning, inside a squeaking, latex, furry inflatable suit, fucked up on nitrous and poppers a few days ago. Apparently he made the suits, as well as using them

(I have a 360p archive saved, but it doesn't want to upload here)

I've seen a few commentary channels that picked up the story (but the videos seem to vanish off YT, as soon as they go up), but searching his username ("CandyCoatedSqueaks") turns up no results on KF. I usually pay zero attention to furry drama, but this seems like relatively big news (or is furry death-by-gooning pretty routine?)- Kinda surprised it doesn't already have a thread.

[edit] Turns out he died about a month ago; His buddy just didn't make the above video, til earlier this week.

(is it just me, or does that look uncannily like an Andrew Dobson drawing?)

Just FYI, these are the kind of suits we're talking about.

R.I.PVC CandyCoatedSqueaks.
He died doing what he loved...

This dude runs an Etsy, and has some banger fucking products photos

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CandyCoatedSqueaks

Spoiler: The Man Himself

Spoiler: East Asian Wagies in Photo

Lol, lmao even

 

[Solid Hyrax]

Looks like he's having a lot of fun.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Lol, lmao even

I unironically want to purchase the Urinal costume.



Hear me out, I would paint on a signature of R. Mutt and go to the local Museum of Modern Art and cosplay as my favorite piece of art history. I'll call this performance piece, The Fountain Evolved.

 

[Roxanne Wolf]

Looks like he's having a lot of fun.
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>If only you knew how squeaky things really are

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This dude runs an Etsy, and has some banger fucking products photos

I'm going to save some of those, they'll make for some great zero-context photos on 4chan.

 

[Barry Williams]

I know that a dude who posted on their site Scaleheat had a similar looking mask which he states he bought from Red Nebula Studios.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that Scaleheat was a gay porn website?

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Are we just going to ignore the fact that Scaleheat was a gay porn website?

You can focus on it if you want, I failed to see the relevance of it since it isn't our unknown mongloid. How do I know the difference? One looks like I can bench press'm and the other looks like they want to eat me.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I just noticed that someone within 24 hours an anonymous IP edited the Wikifur article to the archived link that I posted here, the first edit to the page in fourteen years.

Sakanz is still alive and well (at least as of a year ago). If he was a freshman (roughly 18-19) in fall 2005, he's in his late 30s by now.

 

[AnthonyLoggerhead]

Looks like he's having a lot of fun.
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Imagine surviving Mao’s Cultural Revolution & Great Leap Forward, then 1989 at Tiananmen Square, only to spend your later days making inflatable animal sex dolls for weird Westerners who are attracted to animals.

 

[The Homelander]

Well.. that's one way to skip school

That's the thing lol. Who doesn't want to skip school?

Also I think it's worth mentioning that these are a bunch of Prime-drinking TikTok addicts who were born during Obama's second term. We wouldn't take them seriously under normal circumstances, let alone with a camera in their face, so why should we now? I'm willing to bet some parents who enjoy Fox News helped organize the protest after watching that segment with litter boxes in schools (never proven, lol). These kids don't have jobs and they don't have cars, so someone bought those supplies for them. And they talk about their Principal as some kind of machaivellion supervillian in her ivory tower rubbing her hands together as she plots the next furry terror attack. Kinda like how every fucking kid views the principal lol, and how their parents probably view Biden and the CIA and the deep state.

I want to eat my words though, because I think it would be pretty hilarious if there were actual furry attacks at a public school. Would just secure more Trump votes lol.