Furry Fandom and Drama General

YayLasagna said:
No pets should be allowed to furcons for obvious reasons.
Not that'll ever happen, since it'll starve the petting zoos.
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If we're being perfectly honest, it should go further to be age restricted as well. Especially given that James Hoyt (Sangie from the Zoocrew) is still kicking around various conventions.
 
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Gorgar said:
I got a question that needs to be answered, how long until the first “service” horse gets to join these lunatics? It’ll be an absolute joy ride for everyone.
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Probably unlikely. Miniature horses are generally guide animals for the blind, with emotional support being their other [not] service. Service dogs cover a much wider range of jobs. Most furries with a service animal are covering a need like seizures, autism, PTSD, hearing, etc. There aren't as many furries with guide dogs.
 
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Cactus Wings said:
Why do they exclusively use fursuiters for these documentaries? What about the vastly more presentable, succesful people who just so happen to not be a suiting shitlord? Not worth it? Or hell, why only interview at conventions?
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Because it makes a better documentary than "people who like to pretend to be animals on the internet and pretend to stick their imaginary animal body parts in each other's imaginary animal orifices."
 
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Sintharia said:
Probably unlikely. Miniature horses are generally guide animals for the blind, with emotional support being their other [not] service. Service dogs cover a much wider range of jobs. Most furries with a service animal are covering a need like seizures, autism, PTSD, hearing, etc. There aren't as many furries with guide dogs.
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plushydog, the chick who thinks she owns the monopoly on generic scented sprays, claims her service/show dog is for her BPD.
how a service dog and not emotional support animal is supposed to help with that? no one knows.
 
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plushydog, the chick who thinks she owns the monopoly on generic scented sprays, claims her service/show dog is for her BPD.
how a service dog and not emotional support animal is supposed to help with that? no one knows.
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I've never in my life heard of a service dog being given to someone with BPD. Maybe an emotional support dog (which costs like $20k to get in most states), never for this shit though. Sounds more like "stop being mean to me for abusing my dog!"
 
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Leonard Helplessness said:
Because it makes a better documentary than "people who like to pretend to be animals on the internet and pretend to stick their imaginary animal body parts in each other's imaginary animal orifices."
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It also is to make furry look like it’s a fandom about performance art and costuming, rather than tell everyone the truth about it being a LGBTQ and fetish safe space.

Honestly, with all the times I’ve seen Furrys just come out and say that cishet people make them uncomfortable and nervous, I’m surprise that guys like Sam Conway are still trying to push the “furry is about cartoon animals and it’s the fandom for everyone!“ Narrative. But then, Sams always struck me as being something of a broken record anyways.
 
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billydero said:
It also is to make furry look like it’s a fandom about performance art and costuming, rather than tell everyone the truth about it being a LGBTQ and fetish safe space.
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Pretty sure there's some other documentary that does go into the gay roots of the fandom that originated from the weebs.

billydero said:
I'm surprise that guys like Sam Conway are still trying to push the “furry is about cartoon animals and it’s the fandom for everyone!“ Narrative. But then, Sams always struck me as being something of a broken record anyways.
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His goal with that was always to 'de-stigmatize' furries, and trainwreck interviews from the media whenever the dark side of furries was brought up. Wouldn't be surprised if to some extent the greater push for a 'positive' view of furries in the media aside from Sam is to not offend the gays.
 
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billydero said:
It also is to make furry look like it’s a fandom about performance art and costuming, rather than tell everyone the truth about it being a LGBTQ and fetish safe space.

Honestly, with all the times I’ve seen Furrys just come out and say that cishet people make them uncomfortable and nervous, I’m surprise that guys like Sam Conway are still trying to push the “furry is about cartoon animals and it’s the fandom for everyone!“ Narrative. But then, Sams always struck me as being something of a broken record anyways.
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It's because dressing up in animal costumes is far more marketable than you know, the whole fandom being fetish centric to the core. Free HIV tests at cons and scenes out of Rainfurrest aren't marketable whatsoever, and neither are scandals.

Sam is a good PR guy. He might wrestle too much control over documentaries or ban people for portraying the fandom in a bad light on TV shows, but his goal is to make sure that the locals think furries are cool and contribute dollars to the city's economy. Unlike more mainstream nerd cons, furry cons tend to draw a less normal clientele so Sam has to try himself to make the fandom look better.

Womanhorse said:
Heres a video of the owner literally holding in the shit of their "service dog" who is clearly doing so out of fear of the crowds and fursuits. (Archive)

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apperently these people have brought this "service dog in training" to meets before too (Archive)

I doubt MFF will actually do anything about this considering they allowed a literal goddamn fox that was a "rare Russian breed" service dog years back with little question. Despite having full legal authority to kick out an "out of control" animal like that.
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Abusing service animal policies has already become enough of a problem outside furry conventions. Airlines have been dealing with people trying to bring emotional support peacocks and pit bulls onboard planes, when it's clear it's an excuse to bring your pet on a plane.

In a furry convention it's exponentially worse considering how zoophiles keep managing to show up. Putting that aside there's also the clear stress on the dog from being around thousands of people, as you can see from the video.
 
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billydero said:
It also is to make furry look like it’s a fandom about performance art and costuming, rather than tell everyone the truth about it being a LGBTQ and fetish safe space.

Honestly, with all the times I’ve seen Furrys just come out and say that cishet people make them uncomfortable and nervous, I’m surprise that guys like Sam Conway are still trying to push the “furry is about cartoon animals and it’s the fandom for everyone!“ Narrative. But then, Sams always struck me as being something of a broken record anyways.
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There's only one difference between fur fetishists and leather fetishists; leather fetishists will at least admit they're a gay fetish subgenre.

(Originally there were going to be two differences. I was going to include that furries prefer the animals they're horny about to be alive rather than dead and tanned, but the necrozoos have proven me wrong on that one. Also with all the leather daddies now calling their subs "pigs" or "puppies" I guess they are into live animals after all.)
 
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CIA Nigger said:
It's because dressing up in animal costumes is far more marketable than you know, the whole fandom being fetish centric to the core. Free HIV tests at cons and scenes out of Rainfurrest aren't marketable whatsoever, and neither are scandals.

Sam is a good PR guy. He might wrestle too much control over documentaries or ban people for portraying the fandom in a bad light on TV shows, but his goal is to make sure that the locals think furries are cool and contribute dollars to the city's economy. Unlike more mainstream nerd cons, furry cons tend to draw a less normal clientele so Sam has to try himself to make the fandom look better.


Abusing service animal policies has already become enough of a problem outside furry conventions. Airlines have been dealing with people trying to bring emotional support peacocks and pit bulls onboard planes, when it's clear it's an excuse to bring your pet on a plane.

In a furry convention it's exponentially worse considering how zoophiles keep managing to show up. Putting that aside there's also the clear stress on the dog from being around thousands of people, as you can see from the video.
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Sam Conway doesn't do it to save the fsndom because he is a good person.

He tries to save the fandom in order to feel relevant and also as a means to get himself fresh meat at cons
The fact his PR machine some what helps the fandom is just a happy accidemt
 
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“Well sorry showing concern and actually wanting help for someone who got assaulted is clogging up your timeline, very sorry to inconvenience. Will make sure nobody else gets assaulted just so your timeline is clearer. To be clear, I don't know the hotels well and I don't know...”
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Security has its number on the back of all con badges. 911 is the police in America. Not exactly hard to remember

What happened to the days where people knew to call 911 or whatever when they are sexually assaulted? Now everyone runs to the internet like it has the ability to do anything other then be a place for outrage venting

You have to question how and why someone seems to always be at the right place, right time for major events like sexual assault. Especially when you remember Coreycoyote having their own issues regarding sexual assault accusations by others
 
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