Why do furries exist?

[skiddlez]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the furry fandom. The eroticism is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of animal biology most of the anatomy will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also the average viewer's erotic outlook, which is deftly woven into their characterisation- their personal philosophy draws heavily from furry hentai, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of furry porn, to realise that they're not just furry- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike furry porn truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the anger in the normies' existential catchphrase "yiff in hell furfags," which itself is a cryptic reference to how humans got AIDS from fucking animals in the first place. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Hasbro's genius MLP unfolds its pony legs on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

And yes, by the way, i DO have a dragon dildo tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid

 

[Kuchipatchi]

But seriously tho. If aliens ever discover the furries, I hope they nuke them from orbit.

They'll probably think that furries are an invading species and zap them to ashes because they're charitable aliens.

Why I think furries exist is because everyone loves animals, people have pet cats, dogs, birds, etc. Then there's people who love animals so much that they dedicate themselves to animals and make the focus of their art mostly/exclusively animals because like-minded people want more.
Then you have those that develope fetishes of the animals. They make porn of the animal characters and other people get turned on and spreads like a disease.

Furries are fucking cancer.

 

[The Flawless Gazelles]

because we didn't kill them yet. #killallfurries

 

[Lemmingwise]

Don't worry, it's just natural goy guy, people are born that way, look at nature, those animals are also fucking animals, so why would it be strange for a human to do so?

 

[Terminus Est]

Hopefully soon

 

[Furina]

I'm no expert, but this is the internet and hastily-assembled reckonings presented as facts are what it is for, so after contemplating this subject for roughly a minute, here are my original and interesting conclusions:

I think the largest part of it is simple escapism. You don't tend to see a lot of successful and well-adjusted people who are also furries because they don't feel the same need to get out of themselves as perhaps a socially outcast loser might. By piggybacking off the reputation of an animal, they can convince themselves they too embody that reputation, which is why wolves are so common. Wolves are intelligent, ferocious, scary and cool, so if you become a wolf, then you too can be all those things. You're not a shlubby manlet with thinning hair, zero muscle mass and an awkward laugh, you're a wolf, a dog, a cat, dragon, pokemon... whatever. On the one hand, I kind of understand it, but on the other it really is pretty pathetic and the amount of deviancy that lives within the community makes all the hate they get well deserved.

Except that one furry who dresses up and waves a sign whenever a speeding camera is set up near his house. He's based.

 

[JohnDoe]

Are furries just a modern thing? Or do they go back as far as the Stone Age?

I dunno man, the oldest example of figurative art we have in the world is a sculpture of some cave-dude's lion fursona, so I doubt its just a modern thing.

The Löwenmensch figurine or Lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel is a prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave in 1939. The German name, Löwenmensch, meaning "lion-human", is used most frequently because it was discovered and is exhibited in Germany. The lion-headed figurine is the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest-known uncontested example of figurative art. It has been determined by carbon dating of the layer in which it was found to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old, and therefore is associated with the archaeological Aurignacian culture of the Upper Paleolithic. It was carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife. Seven parallel, transverse, carved gouges are on the left arm.

 

[ES 148]

I dunno man, the oldest example of figurative art we have in the world is a sculpture of some cave-dude's lion fursona, so I doubt its just a modern thing.

The Löwenmensch figurine or Lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel is a prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave in 1939. The German name, Löwenmensch, meaning "lion-human", is used most frequently because it was discovered and is exhibited in Germany. The lion-headed figurine is the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest-known uncontested example of figurative art. It has been determined by carbon dating of the layer in which it was found to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old, and therefore is associated with the archaeological Aurignacian culture of the Upper Paleolithic. It was carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint stone knife. Seven parallel, transverse, carved gouges are on the left arm.

That's a mighty chin. This is truly the Chad of lion men.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Hopefully soon
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I would say I'm conflicted by this but after enough lame-ass self-inserts into the BT universe by furries...no, no I'm not. (Fuck you, Calbeck. ELH sucked anyway.)
I'm more bothered by the fact that I can't figure out what the mech in the back is. Atlas is front, Firestarter is the second, but I'm struggling to place the last one. Guessing those are LRMs, and it looks like a medium or heavy, so that... doesn't narrow it down much. Doesn't look right for a Trebuchet or Griffin at all.

 

[Terminus Est]

I would say I'm conflicted by this but after enough lame-ass self-inserts into the BT universe by furries...no, no I'm not. (Fuck you, Calbeck. ELH sucked anyway.)
I'm more bothered by the fact that I can't figure out what the mech in the back is. Atlas is front, Firestarter is the second, but I'm struggling to place the last one. Guessing those are LRMs, and it looks like a medium or heavy, so that... doesn't narrow it down much. Doesn't look right for a Trebuchet or Griffin at all.

Don't really give a shit

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Don't really give a shit

Good thing I wasn't talking to you, then, huh

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

It's because the western world, in its quest for tolerance, completely abandoned any concept of moral authority. We said "Well who am I to judge" too many times...

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Disney’s animals are progressively evolving into anthros.

 

[The Lizard Queen]

Back in the old days, furries were the baddest dudes in the tribe. If you wanted to cosplay as your wolf fursona, you couldn't put down your vegan soy latte and buy a bunch of fake fur and a sewing machine.
No, you had to go out and kill a bunch of goddamn wolves using nothing but a crude knife and a stick. Then you had to go and sew their flayed skins together with raw sinew using a needle carved from their bones.

Naturally these gods among men demanded to be worshiped, leading to the first religions.
Furries used to be cool.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Disney’s animals are progressively evolving into anthros.

Huh? Zootopia is pretty much just a reprisal of Robin Hood in terms of stylistic choices. They've been at this for a while.

Or is there something even MORE blatantly furbait than Zootopia that's happened since I last paid attention?

 

[left arm]

In general, people acting like you're oppressed for people (reasonably) finding you a sexual deviant because you can't enjoy something without openly waggling your dick to it probably can be attributed to the gay rights movement. (As in gays were likely seen as sexual deviants at the time, then others think "If these weirdos are proud and open about being weird, I can be too!")

So I assume the degeneracy of modern furries came from the spread of the idea among the community that you should be open about whatever weird shit you like, but who knows.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

In general, people acting like you're oppressed for people (reasonably) finding you a sexual deviant because you can't enjoy something without openly waggling your dick to it probably can be attributed to the gay rights movement. (As in gays were likely seen as sexual deviants at the time, then others think "If these weirdos are proud and open about being weird, I can be too!")

So I assume the degeneracy of modern furries came from the spread of the idea among the community that you should be open about whatever weird shit you like, but who knows.

Should be noted that some of the earliest hallmarks (though perhaps not the FIRST) of what could definitely be considered degenerate behavior in the fandom came from the gay subsections of said fandom acting out at early conventions. (This is why you had openly homophobic people lining up on the Burned Furs' side of that fight, perhaps to the Burned Furs' chagrin.)

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I think we can all agree at this point that people have been combining animal and human traits in art (sculpture, painting, etc.) for millennia.
At there core, what modern furries are (besides degenerates) are really, really obsessive fans of anthropomorphic animals, much like how weebs are really, really obsessive fans of cartoon women with absurdly huge eyes anime. However, like that one girl who got surgery to look like an anime girl, furries take their obsession way too fucking far. The modern furry culture, as we know and hate it, exists because the internet, for better or for worse, gives the degenerates a platform to show their kinks to the world at large and demand acceptance for it.

As you can imagine, they don't always succeed.
That said, the sheer reach of the internet allows other furries to see them, realize "Hey, I'm not the only lonely degenerate in his mom's basement dressing up like a wolf," and they band together at places like conventions or online forums.
But all this is how they exist, not why. In my opinion, they exist for the same reason Chris-Chan exists: to show you what not to do.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

I also think the animosity Battletech fans have for furries might also be linked to the fact that the Clans (you know, the biggest fucking imbalance to the game system ever put into place) are basically fucking space furries with superiority complexes. (No coincidence that most of the idiotic furry BT self-inserts I see are driving Clan mechs. Retards.)

The "ACCEPT MEEEEEE" shit is something I'm convinced they picked up from the LGBTQwhateverthefuck, as from all accounts the early fandom wasn't known for being super-pushy from what I gather, just the same amount of spergy you'd expect from any other sort of niche fandom. The sexual aspect was always there but it wasn't the DOMINANT narrative until a little later, which is probably what prompted the Burned Furs to come about (and get promptly smacked down by hordes of people with their hands firmly clasped around their dicks).

 

[UE 558]

Because Narpassword came to this forum one day and spread their degeneracy like a disease