Furry Fandom and Drama General

[drain]

I'll have to do that, then. Thanks for the heads up!


Damn. That makes me proud. I figured I was just some asshole on the internet who thought he was chill and reasonable but turns out he's just an asshole. I guess I'm not.

Perhaps I'm just a person who enjoys his privacy, but even if I did have weird fetishes, it's just astounding that people don't think it's weird or abnormal. It really angers me when people just introduce themselves with a list of what they get off to. I'm pretty desensitized to degenerate fetishes and honestly don't care if someone has them or posts them on their profile because there's an audience for it, but I WILL get angry if you let that one facet of yourself take over the entirety of you and you need everyone to accept it. Flanderization isn't good in fiction, and it's horrifying in reality. Just keep it to the places it belongs, sites where it's allowed or meant to be posted, friends, yourself, etc. I don't care. Though in that same sense, I should be allowed to mock it and laugh, because there are plenty of fetishes that are fun to laugh at. There's no malice in that, for me anyway. Fantasy is fantasy, but learn to take a joke and be aware of the fact that your fantasies can be weird/funny/fucked up. Self-awareness goes a long way in my book. Perhaps I'm in between the "don't kinkshame" and the "this is disgusting" mindsets. Weird fetishes that are impossible in reality just don't really get to me. I feel they're not worth getting angry at unless someone is trying to push it down your throat or you see it everywhere or where it's not supposed to be.

Yeah, there's an autistic rambling for you guys. TL;DR - Weird fetishes don't really bother me as long as you don't announce it everywhere publicly, be aware that it's weird, and learn to take a joke.

I don't have issues with what people get off to, really. I'm a pretty tolerant person, I like to hear about other cultures, experiences, religions... I'm very open minded the majority of the time.
But when people have zero self awareness, thats where I draw the line. Putting innocent people into your fetishes, especially kids, makes me extremely uncomfortable. I'm not saying that I'll go out my way to do bad things to the person, I simply go away and cut all the contact.
Shitting yourself in public, grabbing strangers, making inappropriate jokes in public and things like that is a big "nope" in my book. I'm not part of a "fandom", I mean, I'm not part of any culture. I like things, sure, but I don't consider myself X or Y. I'm just a fan of some things. So I never went into any conventions, but I think if someone started to shit their diaper in front of me, I don't know what I would do, maybe call the police? lol

 

[Reynard]

I don't have issues with what people get off to, really. I'm a pretty tolerant person, I like to hear about other cultures, experiences, religions... I'm very open minded the majority of the time.
But when people have zero self awareness, thats where I draw the line. Putting innocent people into your fetishes, especially kids, makes me extremely uncomfortable. I'm not saying that I'll go out my way to do bad things to the person, I simply go away and cut all the contact.
Shitting yourself in public, grabbing strangers, making inappropriate jokes in public and things like that is a big "nope" in my book. I'm not part of a "fandom", I mean, I'm not part of any culture. I like things, sure, but I don't consider myself X or Y. I'm just a fan of some things. So I never went into any conventions, but I think if someone started to shit their diaper in front of me, I don't know what I would do, maybe call the police? lol

Yep. The way I see it, be self-aware, don't force it on other people, and be able to understand people will make fun of you for it so just learn to laugh along or simply ignore it. Hell, if someone posts it online where it's allowed or supposed to be, whatever. There's an audience for it, I get that. But not everyone will like it. Whether them being malicious with the mocking is where I start to say no to "kinkshaming." If you get malicious with trolling, you're probably just as bad if not worse than who you're trolling. Hell, I'm aware people would mock me for being a furry. So what? I laugh at things I find stupid all the time. It'd be hypocritical to say I can do that, but if I'm the butt of the joke it's off limits. The only time I'd get angry is if it's truly threatening or ill-intended, but even then it's more to do with the how than the what.

I mean, I'm somewhat in the fandom, but that's mostly because like many people, I like to hang around people with similar interests and I like the character design style and the art. Hell, I'm hoping that perhaps that by presenting myself well here and pointing out the whackjobs, it'll clean up the fandom and people who want nothing to do with it won't be bothered by them, meaning that the fandom gets a better image while the other people don't get bothered as much. Honestly seems like a win-win if you ask me.

TL;DR - Joking is fine, just don't get malicious. I'll be happy to expose many more furry cows, as outing their insanity and/or terribleness would be mutually beneficial to both furs and non-furs alike. Yeah, it's sappy and autistic, but whatever.

 

[drain]

The only time I'd get angry is if it's truly threatening or ill-intended, but even then it's more to do with the how than the what.

I don't know if you're already aware, but here in this community, we have the "weens". They're generally harmsless users who try to make "trolling plans", and almost nobody likes them, bc we are here to laugh, simply.
I don't recall users here trying to actively harm the lolcows, but I'm sure they exist. And they're as pathetic as the fetish flaunting ones.
I think the answer is "live your life, enjoy your things but leave other people alone". It suits the two sides, the "trolls" and the "trolled".

 

[TowinKarz]

Sane people are out there, you just won't find them at cons because they find the idea of publically carousing with 40 year olds in diapers mortifying. When the internet allows you to indulge in your fetishes from the privacy of your own home, only the defectives would knowingly or ignorantly take it outside.

 

[Reynard]

I don't know if you're already aware, but here in this community, we have the "weens". They're generally harmsless users who try to make "trolling plans", and almost nobody likes them, bc we are here to laugh, simply.
I don't recall users here trying to actively harm the lolcows, but I'm sure they exist. And they're as pathetic as the fetish flaunting ones.
I think the answer is "live your life, enjoy your things but leave other people alone". It suits the two sides, the "trolls" and the "trolled".

Oh, I wouldn't be here if I thought the majority were malicious trolls. I enjoy laughing as well, hence why I'm here.

Sane people are out there, you just won't find them at cons because they find the idea of publically carousing with 40 year olds in diapers mortifying. When the internet allows you to indulge in your fetishes from the privacy of your own home, only the defectives would knowingly or ignorantly take it outside.

I haven't been to a con, but I can safely say that daiperfurs and babyfurs are the laughingstock of most furries. Hell, if I'm not mistaken, there was a big shitstorm (no pun intended) by the babyfur community and its enablers found out that the second biggest fur con, Eurofurence, banned babyfur stuff in public. Only crazy people and those within the babyfur community don't mind babyfurs.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I don't know if you're already aware, but here in this community, we have the "weens". They're generally harmsless users who try to make "trolling plans", and almost nobody likes them, bc we are here to laugh, simply.
I don't recall users here trying to actively harm the lolcows, but I'm sure they exist. And they're as pathetic as the fetish flaunting ones.
I think the answer is "live your life, enjoy your things but leave other people alone". It suits the two sides, the "trolls" and the "trolled".

Users who treat lolcows as punching bags for anger management issues rather than sources of comedy are called A-Logs after the illustrious gentleman Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto, who absolutely hated Chris and made this glorious video.

Sane people are out there, you just won't find them at cons because they find the idea of publically carousing with 40 year olds in diapers mortifying. When the internet allows you to indulge in your fetishes from the privacy of your own home, only the defectives would knowingly or ignorantly take it outside.

People indulged in their fetishes in privacy before the internet. The Marquis de Sade predated FurAffinity.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

Users who treat lolcows as punching bags for anger management issues rather than sources of comedy are called A-Logs after the illustrious gentleman Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto, who absolutely hated Chris and made this glorious video.

Oh my god. I've never actually seen an A-Log video despite following Chris for so long.

It's amazing. The constant flubbed attempts at humor, the complete dismissal and scorn from nearly every person visiting the convention, and the shop-keepers who all looked like they were ten seconds away from telling him to fuck off and stop driving business away.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Oh my god. I've never actually seen an A-Log video despite following Chris for so long.

It's amazing. The constant flubbed attempts at humor, the complete dismissal and scorn from nearly every person visiting the convention, and the shop-keepers who all looked like they were ten seconds away from telling him to fuck off and stop driving business away.

A-Log at his best was as big a lolcow as Chris. Unfortunately, he went quiet a few years ago, and I'm not sure what he's doing now.

He also did the worst stand up comedy I've ever seen in my life:

 

[Trilby]

A-Log at his best was as big a lolcow as Chris. Unfortunately, he went quiet a few years ago, and I'm not sure what he's doing now.

He also did the worst stand up comedy I've ever seen in my life:

Sometimes people know when to step down.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Sometimes people know when to step down.

A-Log isn't one of them.

He's particularly relevant to this thread, since he was himself a furry, writing an epic called "The World's Luckiest Guy" about himself as a furry with a six inch foxdick.

http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?showtopic=4354

 

[Reynard]

A-Log isn't one of them.

He's particularly relevant to this thread, since he was himself a furry, writing an epic called "The World's Luckiest Guy" about himself as a furry with a six inch foxdick.

http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?showtopic=4354

You know, I'm pretty used to people having their fursonas in stories or art, whether it's NSFW or not, but that title just makes me recoil. Not because he wants to be an anthro whatever, I assume most furries want to be their fursonas, but because he's basically writing the fantasy about himself and calling himself lucky. Is a self-insert of yourself with a different name too hard to use? At least there's some originality there. There's barely any, but at least there's some in the fact that you came up with a new name for yourslf.

I'll have to read this at some point, though. I get the feeling it'll make me ashamed to be at all associated with this group, and I love feeling terrible about myself.

 

[AnOminous]

A-Log isn't one of them.

He kind of is, though, because he actually did knock off what he was doing. If he's being a cringelord elsewhere now, he's at least hiding his powerlevel irl.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

He kind of is, though, because he actually did knock off what he was doing. If he's being a cringelord elsewhere now, he's at least hiding his powerlevel irl.

What was the last we heard of A-Log? I know he tried to become a voice actor at one point.

 

[JFKdestroyer]

The fandom is going nuts after Bernie Sanders appeared in the background of a photo with a fursuiter in it.

 

[Papa Nier]

At the risk of getting Islamic content
I present you, ear rape the movie

Do furries think this is actually "cute"?
The suiter in the video is apparently the creator of some dragon species called the "dutch angel dragon" which for some reason has a pretty big fan base
http://www.dutchangeldragons.com/what-is-an-angel-dragon

Its pretty much every other deviantart MUH ORIGINAL SPECIES but ascended.
As uncreative and mary sue as you can get
They literally dont shit, they dont have sex or anything. They are beings of "pure energy" whatever the fuck that means

And apparently, their fan base attacked others who design their dragons with fur and feathers as being copies of the dutch angel dragons

I liked this abomination better when it was eating children in The Last Guardian.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

The fandom is going nuts after Bernie Sanders appeared in the background of a photo with a fursuiter in it.

Is that furry actually doing the Curse-ye-ha-me-ha?

A TRUE AND HONEST fan indeed.

 

[Reynard]

At the risk of getting Islamic content
I present you, ear rape the movie

Do furries think this is actually "cute"?
The suiter in the video is apparently the creator of some dragon species called the "dutch angel dragon" which for some reason has a pretty big fan base
http://www.dutchangeldragons.com/what-is-an-angel-dragon

Its pretty much every other deviantart MUH ORIGINAL SPECIES but ascended.
As uncreative and mary sue as you can get
They literally dont shit, they dont have sex or anything. They are beings of "pure energy" whatever the fuck that means

And apparently, their fan base attacked others who design their dragons with fur and feathers as being copies of the dutch angel dragons

I've heard a number of people criticize the Angel Dragon species for being super strict with what one can do with them and so on. Plenty of furs I know see the species and those who make them as a big joke.

There was a better fursuit cooking video I once saw where they got drunk before suiting up and baking a cake. Much more entertaining, and accurate as to what furries naturally do. Drink WAY too much alcohol.

 

[c-no]

You know, I'm pretty used to people having their fursonas in stories or art, whether it's NSFW or not, but that title just makes me recoil. Not because he wants to be an anthro whatever, I assume most furries want to be their fursonas, but because he's basically writing the fantasy about himself and calling himself lucky. Is a self-insert of yourself with a different name too hard to use? At least there's some originality there. There's barely any, but at least there's some in the fact that you came up with a new name for yourslf.

I'll have to read this at some point, though. I get the feeling it'll make me ashamed to be at all associated with this group, and I love feeling terrible about myself.

Beyond lack of originality, and having an OC whose only difference is some "change of appearance" (Like Chris being skinny, it's A-Log being a fox whose dick magically enlarged to be 6 inches), it's all the same shit A-Log is doing with little variation outside of the people he's fucking either being established characters from other shows or original characters. And then you have his incest fetish being outright shown with two characters that managed to give him a boner.

Is that furry actually doing the Curse-ye-ha-me-ha?

A TRUE AND HONEST fan indeed.

Like Chris, the furry is trying to copy something straight out of Dragon Ball Z. Had they known it was Bernie Sanders then, Sanders himself could of seen any possible cringe.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

At the risk of getting Islamic content
I present you, ear rape the movie

That was absolutely terrifying. I'm usually a live and let live sort of guy, but, man, I guess even my tolerance has limits.

 

[Reynard]

Beyond lack of originality, and having an OC whose only difference is some "change of appearance" (Like Chris being skinny, it's A-Log being a fox whose dick magically enlarged to be 6 inches), it's all the same shit A-Log is doing with little variation outside of the people he's fucking either being established characters from other shows or original characters. And then you have his incest fetish being outright shown with two characters that managed to give him a boner.

Like I said, I'm not saying it's not a cringy story (the title and synopsis is enough), and I still think the self-insert is a bad type of character, but in this case, having one's fursona be a self-insert isn't really an issue to me. It's a bit more honest when you represent yourself as yourself, even if they have a different appearance because the internet allows us to present ourselves as whatever. The time when the self-insert fursona bothers me is when you use it in stories that fulfill your weird fantasies. Tell the story of a character you'd want to be or find interesting, not a flawless version of yourself so you can live a fantasy.