Furry Fandom and Drama General

PrEP is going to end up making things worse because everyone is laser-focused on HIV and somehow forgot every other STI that exists.

As if this isn't already happening.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis
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Nothing says family friendly "not a fetish" con like HIV testing rooms. So many furries sleep around with god knows who to the point where cons had to offer HIV testing onsite.

Yeah, seeing that at a furry con is REALLY reassuring.

I recall that years back Xydexx used to have a “don’t worry, be furry!” sig he used a lot. If I wa even near furries, let alone being one, I’d worry. I’d worry a LOT. And take a lot of showers.
 
I guess, strictly speaking, it's better to have the HIV testing rooms than not have them. but it is an excellent proof that something is very, very wrong.

imagine finding out you're HIV positive at a goddamn furcon. it's one of those so-bad-it's-funny things

PrEP is going to end up making things worse because everyone is laser-focused on HIV and somehow forgot every other STI that exists.
100% agree, it's already a growing problem in my local gay community where a lot of us know each others' business and I have no doubt that it is a problem in the furry community too.

i don't work in public health but I spend a stupid amount of time trying to force people to get educated and furries are way way way worse about getting educated on any topic except cartoon animals than the average person. furries and safe sex is like trying to teach calculus to short bus kids.
 
imagine finding out you're HIV positive at a goddamn furcon. it's one of those so-bad-it's-funny things

Well, you already knew you were a furry, so how much worse could it get?
 
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I've been sort of testing the waters to see if I even want to identify with this horrid fandom. I've been into furries ever since I was a teen, I guess I never 'grew out of it'. I would dare to say that it's definitely a fetish thing for the majority. Most furries are lying if they say, "Not ALL furs are into yiff".

Anyway, I am absolutely disgusted by all the weird fetishes in the fandom, the bad fursuits, and the need to pander to LGBT, PC, and BLM SJW's. Not to mention all the suicidal mental cases. I'm just trying to find some like-minded people that aren't bat-shit crazy, but alas, it's more of a pipe-dream for me.
 
I've been sort of testing the waters to see if I even want to identify with this horrid fandom. I've been into furries ever since I was a teen, I guess I never 'grew out of it'. I would dare to say that it's definitely a fetish thing for the majority. Most furries are lying if they say, "Not ALL furs are into yiff".

Anyway, I am absolutely disgusted by all the weird fetishes in the fandom, the bad fursuits, and the need to pander to LGBT, PC, and BLM SJW's. Not to mention all the suicidal mental cases. I'm just trying to find some like-minded people that aren't bat-shit crazy, but alas, it's more of a pipe-dream for me.
You don't need to identify with anything to post here, actually it's highly suggested that you don't.

Welcome to the farms.
 
I've been sort of testing the waters to see if I even want to identify with this horrid fandom. I've been into furries ever since I was a teen, I guess I never 'grew out of it'. I would dare to say that it's definitely a fetish thing for the majority. Most furries are lying if they say, "Not ALL furs are into yiff".

Anyway, I am absolutely disgusted by all the weird fetishes in the fandom, the bad fursuits, and the need to pander to LGBT, PC, and BLM SJW's. Not to mention all the suicidal mental cases. I'm just trying to find some like-minded people that aren't bat-shit crazy, but alas, it's more of a pipe-dream for me.


Welcome to the Farms. Hell if by "like minded individuals" you mean self-hating furfags you couldn't have come to a better section of these forums.
 
I've been sort of testing the waters to see if I even want to identify with this horrid fandom. I've been into furries ever since I was a teen, I guess I never 'grew out of it'. I would dare to say that it's definitely a fetish thing for the majority. Most furries are lying if they say, "Not ALL furs are into yiff".

Anyway, I am absolutely disgusted by all the weird fetishes in the fandom, the bad fursuits, and the need to pander to LGBT, PC, and BLM SJW's. Not to mention all the suicidal mental cases. I'm just trying to find some like-minded people that aren't bat-shit crazy, but alas, it's more of a pipe-dream for me.
What's to identify with? Furries don't "do" anything but draw and share porn, and pretty much everyone does that anyway. Most Twitch streamers targeting kids have nsfw channels to subs and shit.
 
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What's to identify with? Furries don't "do" anything but draw and share porn, and pretty much everyone does that anyway. Most Twitch streamers targeting kids have nsfw channels to subs and shit.

Pretty sure the reason why furries are reduced to continuously humping one another is just that there's nothing else to *do* in the fandom. It's the fandom where there's literally nothing to be a fan of except yourself.

Oh I guess you can run around as a mime dressed in a vaguely animal-shaped carpet too.
 
I've been sort of testing the waters to see if I even want to identify with this horrid fandom. I've been into furries ever since I was a teen, I guess I never 'grew out of it'. I would dare to say that it's definitely a fetish thing for the majority. Most furries are lying if they say, "Not ALL furs are into yiff".

Anyway, I am absolutely disgusted by all the weird fetishes in the fandom, the bad fursuits, and the need to pander to LGBT, PC, and BLM SJW's. Not to mention all the suicidal mental cases. I'm just trying to find some like-minded people that aren't bat-shit crazy, but alas, it's more of a pipe-dream for me.

You should find a different interest and a different group to hang out with. And I’m with Cactus Wings; why do you need to identify with anyone, especially a porn and sex fetish fandom? And why does anyone need to identify with anything, anyways?

Stay away from it. Your reputation will thank you later.
 
If you're even half conscious, furry is a waste of your time and you'll often find yourself questioning what the fuck there is to do that doesn't involve spending money on shit you don't need. Imagine being normal and going to conventions only to find people kinning as "dragons" or some gay shit. It's weird and I'm still not sure if these people actually believe the shit they say. Activities include: Listening to people talk about Pokemon, buying porn you'll never read more than once, and going to panels to listen to more people talk about Pokemon.
 
I've been sort of testing the waters to see if I even want to identify with this horrid fandom. I've been into furries ever since I was a teen, I guess I never 'grew out of it'. I would dare to say that it's definitely a fetish thing for the majority. Most furries are lying if they say, "Not ALL furs are into yiff".

Anyway, I am absolutely disgusted by all the weird fetishes in the fandom, the bad fursuits, and the need to pander to LGBT, PC, and BLM SJW's. Not to mention all the suicidal mental cases. I'm just trying to find some like-minded people that aren't bat-shit crazy, but alas, it's more of a pipe-dream for me.
The "sanest" furries tend to be the ones who are either "only in it for the porn" or who try to avoid the fandom. The fandom is a magnet for broken people, rich attention whores, and my favorite, obsessive erpers. The furry fandom leans far more towards fetish community than anything resembling a fandom, especially due to the fact that the majority of content the fandom puts out tends to be self indulgent porn. For every furry who makes a video game, comic, or book involving anthromorphic animals that's not porn in any way, it'll be crowded out within the fandom by tons of porn, or even sexually suggestive webcomics like TwoKinds or Sabrina Online.

If you want to draw anthromorphic animals and especially ones that look more like cartoon characters that's fine and all, just don't associate yourself with the fandom in any way. Even back in the 90s, the animation industry frowned upon furries. Besides the stories that floated around about Eric Schwartz being denied jobs due to his furry comics, there was the story of crazy Tiny Toons fan Dennis Falk, who ran a FTP server at one time for Tiny Toons porn where many "first generation" furry porn artists uploaded content to. Dennis started sending voice actor Tress MacNielle sexually explicit mail involving the characters she voiced. Not only did she have to cancel appearances near the area the letters came from, but in a TV interview (which sadly was not uploaded) Tom Ruegger mentioned that he lost interest in Tiny Toons as he was sick of the obsessive internet fans, and the final episode of Tiny Toons even featured a parody of Dennis Falk (and Animaniacs also featured parodies of similar nerds like Dennis):

Hell, even some of the more successful works made by furries that got noticed outside the fandom (like Dust AET) have at times suffered from the stigma associated with the fandom, and it's due to the fact that the furry fandom has gone out of it's way to create the worst image for itself while none of it's members understand why at all.
 
Even back in the 90s, the animation industry frowned upon furries.

Hell, there was never a period in the fandom where this wasn't the case. ConFurence started because, aside from SDCC, the other cons in CA started to really frown upon furry parties being held there. Some of it was because they were sexual deviants, but most of it was because they honestly treated professional artists like shit. You had to support amateur artists in the fandom because the professional artists outside of the fandom just didn't "get" what being furry meant. It was really creepy and cult-like.

So the fandom has always been up its own ass. It's pretty funny. You couldn't just draw furry art, you had to actually be a furry. Typically combined with weird New Age stuff about spirit animals and shamanism.

You can still notice a hint of this in people like Xydexx.
 
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