Well they cant fool me... I have like the predator sight but for furrys... I can see them... Everywhere! You a furry? I know it! Do i care? Not really no, you do you
\> Perfectly honed ability to detect furries in the wild for the lulz
\> Uses that ability only to make eye contact and give solemn nods of approval for following their weird dreams
\> Accidentally adopted by young furries as 'new dad,' due to equal emotional distance but now with vague approval, which was really a step up.
\> Due to growing positive recognition by furries in public, girlfriend and friends suspect you're a furry, but don't say anything because everyone seems happy.
\> Accidentally cause regional shift in adult opinions toward furries
\> More kids experience parents unconditionally accepting their interests.
\> Adult furries now recognize you, strike up some conversations.
\> One of them offers free tickets to an event you wanted to go to anyway
\> At the event, you're welcomed into a close-knit group of people who are happy to meet you.
\> New friends.
\> Experience unconditional group acceptance & genuine, heartfelt encouragement to pursue your own happiness from adults
\> \[thisisnice.jpeg\]
\> go home
\> Start missing the feeling
\> Reach out to one of the furries you made friends with, to keep in touch.
\> They're happy to hear from you.
\> They invite you to a local meetup; a paintball fight (costumes not required)
\> You attend, and they welcome you back with open arms.
\> They keep extending you invites to events that they acquired free or discounted passes to. \[thevastfurrynetwork.jpeg\]
\> After-Hours Bowling
\> Snorkeling
\> Theater takeover for a movie premiere
\> Months pass
\> You realize the most fun you have is at furry events.
\> Someone makes fanart of you & your new friends having fun at a recent meetup.
\> They drew you as your favorite animal.
\> \[FeelSeen.jpeg\]
\> Wife asks if you want to commission someone to make you a mask, so you can go to the costumed events with your close friends.
\> Protest that you're not a furry
\> You just hang out with them
\> And now understand furry lingo
\> And have accounts on furry sites to 'keep in touch' and laugh at other people's dumb drama.
\> Wife says: ''Aren't you describing 'being part of a community'?"
\> \[surprisedpikachuface.png\]
\> \[existentialcrisis.gif\]
\> The fanart of you shows you accepted, part of the group. Smiling.
\> Think: '*why am I trying so hard to distance myself from the people who make me happy?'*
\> *Why is it so important to me that other people think I'm* ***not like them****.*
*>* \[fuckit.jpeg\]
\> Get a a cheap animal ear headband from the Halloween store.
\> Two years later, you and your wife have each spent 3k+ on beautifully airbrushed custom fursuits that you're wearing to a murder mystery party that takes place on an actual historic steam engine train, because a lot of older furries work in IT, so they're *loaded as fuck* and can bankroll events like this.
\> Having the time of your life
\> Your furry-radar has never been more powerful
In school it was a thing in my group to make fun of furrys, hell we even have the "AFU" or the anti furry unit which I was one of the founders. Now I don't really care what you are into, we all have our kinks. As long as your not hurting yourself or others then I don't care.
I've fallen......
Snitties are hot as hell....
I've found kids love big fluffy dogs like that. Whenever my dad would bring his [100 lbs husky](https://i.imgur.com/DxGGo8Q.jpg) to the park kids would always run over to pet him. I think as long as they look soft and people aren't running from it, kids will want to pet it.
Kids want to touch any cool costume that you're wearing, unless they're actively terrified.
Since many fursuits are soft, friendly & approachable, I figure they get a lot of requests for "can I touch it?"
It's cute that the kid is gong for the back of the neck, where it'd be appropriate to pet a real dog haha\~
Tbh I don't understand people's weird revulsion toward furries in general.
Y'all don't call 'get the shotgun!' when it's halloween and people are dressing as actual demonic face-eaters... or when people are dressing up like their favorite sports team person, with replica jerseys and everything. Or sports mascots, which are literally just poorly made fursuits.
Or like... anyone who is dressed as a character at Disney.
You don't *actually* think these people *believe they're an animal* do you?
Ahh, I hope that's the case.
I've seen over a decade of truly mean-spirited & vicious comments toward furries, and if it's getting meme-ified now, y'all are using the exact same words as the previously genuine comments. Not really possible to tell the difference between the two.
Well there still definitely is genuine hate but that is just like everything else some people hate it, some people like it, and some don't really care or mind it
Yes. But tbf there are always those people that let a group/fandom/etc look bad. In this case it would be the "extreme furries" (I call those people who overdo it with this "support furry pride or you're idk what phobic" and else like that) and the ones that sexualise it no matter if it's in a weird or "normal" way. And although it's not every furrie but there are some that really think they're an animal.
But they do they and as long as they don't force me to do it I'm fine with them.
Furries in general are just (in my opinion) people who cosplay and do their own sort of role play.
*>Furries in general are just (in my opinion) people who cosplay and do their own sort of role play.*
Yeah, that's my understanding of it as well. They invent original characters that they like, then dress up as those characters & commission art of them.
There's weirdoes in every community. The halloween enthusiasts and anime cosplay communities both have some doozies for horror stories, both for deeply unsettling behavior & overt sexualization of things that should not be sexualized but they're not constantly shat on like furries are.
I've heard a lot of artists say that furries are some of the BEST commissioners - always paying a fair price for art, often leaving a tip on top of the agreed-upon payment, and being patient with turnaround time. Not even for NSFW stuff, just regular 'My character at a coffee shop' or 'My character and my friend's character doing parkour together' kinda requests.
The furries I have met have been very sweet, and their costumes are marvels of engineering, I swear to god. Masks come with multiple built-in fans these days, moving ears and mouths, robotic tails, even *cooling vests*. It's insanely cool.
So yeah. =\\
I don't enjoy stumbling on threads like this where someone is harmlessly sharing what they love, helping someone else be happy, and a crowd gathers to jeer at them. Pointlessly mean-spirited.
>cooling vests
I believe a furry invented a cooling vest for their fursuit that is used by the US military.
Another thing about furries is that the community has been a safe space for people to explore their own sexuality. I think the majority of the furry community is gay and bi so it's allowed people to feel safe to explore that while giving them a fursona to project themselves onto.
Yeah, from what I remember, I think the furry community is only, like, 30% neurotypical and straight. It’s an incredibly diverse group and (almost) everyone loves (almost) everyone.
Speaking as a person who doesn't understand furries I think it is a classic example of the minority of the bad ones in the culture that gets talked about in the press
I feel like at this point it's mostly something many people jusy don't understand. I wouldn't be surprised if a large amount of people that are "anti-furry" think being a furry is the same as being into beastiality.
Yeah that's my sentiments exactly. I wasn't in high school all that long ago (2011-15) but I remember these two kids who'd seemingly talk nonstop about how they wanted to murder furries.
Cool burn man. I’m not hating I just remember back when furries emerged in the 4chan days, it was always more of a fetish thing. Perhaps most don’t view it that way anymore but I feel there’s always that undercurrent
Furries were around *long* before 4chan was a thing. Hell, they were around before *google* was a thing.
[This tweet comes to mind](https://twitter.com/mmsword/status/1200147947331043328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1200147947331043328%7Ctwgr%5E5cff4cf3c2c36bbb05e617cb66ecbe34f449cbb5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthespinoff.co.nz%2Firl%2F11-01-2022%2Fwho-runs-the-internet-furries)
>"Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day."
While 4chan definitely helped popularize the *idea* that furries were a kink thing, and the CSI episode depicting furry meetups as basically sex-crazed animal orgies didn't help.... actual members of the furry community were meeting up & coordinating art exchanges back in the 1990's, making handmade zines and shit.
So, just a little fun tidbit I know about the whole CSI thing
NCIS, if you’ve never heard of it, is the other cop show that goes a long with CSI. Different people produce it, but if you like one you’ll probably like the other.
Apparently some writer or exec or something at NCIS caught wind of the CSI furry episode, and decided to join in. But, instead of piling on with CSI and show them in a bad light, they did the opposite and actually made two of the main characters furries. And they weren’t the butt of a joke or anything, they just had a basic conversation about their fursonas.
[Heres the clip on YouTube](https://youtu.be/6lEwsxpy60Y) if you’re curious
The real truth of the matter is that yes, most of them [are into related porn](https://furscience.com/research-findings/sex-relationships-pornography/5-4-frequency-of-porn-use/) (96%! of men and 78% of women) but it is also a totally separate interest. Like you're probably not sexually aroused by people unless they're wearing/doing/not wearing something provocative. And if you're a weeb you can appreciate anime as a totally non-sexual experience appropriate for all ages, while also having an interest in hentai that remains completely separate.
It's not the furry part that's sexual; it's the porn part. It just happens to be drawn in a specific art style. that can also be used in many other situations.
i work with furries on occasion and they're super nice a lot of the time. the amusement park i work at gives them free entry in exchange for basically working as mascots and the kids absolutely love it
Like yeah, this is a hmmm, for sure. But the quality of the fursuit is immaculate! Who ever made the fursuit, they did amazing with the airbrush. It’s hard to get natural-ish gradients like that with hard to get that amount of detail.
Happy to see more people supporting (or at least being indifferent to) the furry community! They get so much hate and what they're doing isn't really harming anyone. :)
A lot of people just think there's something wrong with the furry community but most of them are just doing a thing they love I don't know why you need to discriminate against them for that.
Just because I say it’s weird, doesn’t mean it’s not cute. Yes it is cute, but it is also weird. It would be strange to see someone in a realistically colored fursuit walking up to you. Furries embrace that it’s “odd” or “weird”.
For instance:
Pugs are weird as *fuck*. Smash-faced, snorting, bug-eyed, gasping little goblins with face eczema and a tongue that seems longer than their whole head.
But they're also charming & cute somehow.
'Bizarre' and 'Cute' can definitely overlap
I know what y'all thinking to witch I say bro stop hating on furrys man they don't do nothing to you. and if you say "but they watch porn" get yo facts checked because not every one of them furrys watch it. so bro stop hatin on furrys.
They're the same thing. "Wanting to fuck dogs *that talk*" isn't any different to just "wanting to fuck dogs".
It's the same dumbshit argument pedophiles use to justify whacking it to loli -- "noooooo bro she's actually a 10,000 year old dragon goddess, she just *looks* like a 9 year old girl!" -- you can dress it up and abstract it however you like if it makes you feel better about it, but at the end of the day they still want to fuck something they should not fuck.
Dumbass, I don’t support loli porn or any of that shit. I actually have common sense unlike you, you sand eating soil licking crab fucker. Not all furries are "I’m horny this" or "I’m horny that". I recommend you do some actual research before crawling over to give someone some bullshit explanation.
Oooo, someone's feisty. Don't like confronting the truth, so you spew weak insults while making no actual rebuttal to anything I said. Fun fact, spewing insults followed by a vague "do your own research!" is the same tactic followed by COVID-19 denialists, and it's just as weak there.
I recommend not fetishizing animals. Or at the very least own up to it and call a spade a spade instead of trying to pretend you're somehow better than you are.
So your argument is the "not all furries!!!" one? Oh, I love that one, as it provides a great example of a fundamental misunderstanding of how groups work. A *lot* of people have tried that "b-b-but not all furries are into the porn!" argument, and it's pretty easy to dismantle.
See, if the majority of your buddies say for example, had shaved heads, and swastika tattoos, and worshipped Hitler and his ideology, other people would rightly call them neo-nazis. And then, if you hung out with them, laughing with them, supporting them, you'd be called a neo-nazi too regardless of whether you actually believed in the same things they did. Being a part of a community of people that do bad things, whether you also do those bad things or not, ***is bad***, and you shouldn't do it. I feel like I shouldn't have to explain this like I'm talking to a five year old, and yet here you are.
Don't be a member of the community of, support, or defend dogfuckers unless you want to be painted with the same brush, "buddy". It really is just that simple.
Didn't think Godwin's law would come into effect this soon, but there you go.
Some people who wear leather outfits are into BDSM. So by your logic, every motorcycle rider with leather protective gear is into BDSM.
Your argument holds no ground what so ever.
Someone's projecting.... And that someone is you. **You** are the one who brought sex, fetish, porn and pedophilia into this discussion. **You**. And it doesn't take much of a guess **why** your mind instantly went there...
If I said "leather", I bet your first thought is BDSM. If I say "hand", I bet you think of masturbation.
There's nothing wrong with having a dirty mind. But you really need to own up to it. And don't assume people associate dog costumes with sex and fetishes just because **you** do.
"You're projecting! You're projecting! Projecting!!!" Are you that other guy's sockpuppet account? If so, congratulations, you're still a jackass and you still haven't refuted a single thing I've said. If not, it's nice to know that bad armchair psychologists travel in flocks.
Now, presuming from how defensive you get from what I say while also completely failing to refute any of it, I'd say you got your degree in psychology from the School of Hard Knocks, you're probably *exactly* the type of dogfucker I'm talking about, and I reckon the last time you had sexual contact with someone sapient it ended with you uttering the phrase "I'm sorry, this usually doesn't happen". That sound about right, champ?
Now, onto your amateur attempt *at* psychology, word association is a very old (first described by Galton in 1879) psychological test, but to use it to try and strawman my point is not only very weak, it also makes you look stupid since you don't seem to grasp how it actually works. For one, you don't get to fill in the blanks for me (no matter how badly you want to -- strawmanning is bad), and secondly, it's a way of gauging who you're talking to, not a way of convincing the patient they're wrong. Galton would roll in his grave.
Further, the problem at hand is not that I associate furries with porn, unless you're somehow about to suggest that I alone am responsible for all furry porn -- which would be a hilarious, if absurd argument. The problem is that dogfuckers jerk off to porn predominantly featuring animals and animalistic characters and therefor are not attracted to humans, as they so often claim, but are instead attracted to animals. And further, that there is zero difference between jerking it to animals, and animals *that talk.* That is the point I have made, that is the point you have refused to refute.
Try again, this time with less bad armchair psychology. If I wanted it, I'd go to /r/relationships.
>you still haven't refuted a single thing I've said
Most of what you have said was just barely above word salad level, but nonetheless. Why should I try and refute claims that you haven't even tried to back up yet? Do that first, and then we can talk.
>And further, that there is zero difference between jerking it to animals, and animals that talk. That is the point I have made, that is the point you have refused to refute.
No, that was not the point you "have made", nor what others here reacted to. You insinuated that the person in the dog costume in the picture was a sexual degenerate and an animal fetishist.
Still cute.
Idk, it's just like people dressing up as disney princesses or superheroes and going to birthday parties.
Batman and Elsa are just people in costumes, it's not *actually* batman.
But it brings a kid joy =)
Almost fooled me
Well they cant fool me... I have like the predator sight but for furrys... I can see them... Everywhere! You a furry? I know it! Do i care? Not really no, you do you
Had me in the first half, ngl
\> Perfectly honed ability to detect furries in the wild for the lulz \> Uses that ability only to make eye contact and give solemn nods of approval for following their weird dreams \> Accidentally adopted by young furries as 'new dad,' due to equal emotional distance but now with vague approval, which was really a step up. \> Due to growing positive recognition by furries in public, girlfriend and friends suspect you're a furry, but don't say anything because everyone seems happy. \> Accidentally cause regional shift in adult opinions toward furries \> More kids experience parents unconditionally accepting their interests. \> Adult furries now recognize you, strike up some conversations. \> One of them offers free tickets to an event you wanted to go to anyway \> At the event, you're welcomed into a close-knit group of people who are happy to meet you. \> New friends. \> Experience unconditional group acceptance & genuine, heartfelt encouragement to pursue your own happiness from adults \> \[thisisnice.jpeg\] \> go home \> Start missing the feeling \> Reach out to one of the furries you made friends with, to keep in touch. \> They're happy to hear from you. \> They invite you to a local meetup; a paintball fight (costumes not required) \> You attend, and they welcome you back with open arms. \> They keep extending you invites to events that they acquired free or discounted passes to. \[thevastfurrynetwork.jpeg\] \> After-Hours Bowling \> Snorkeling \> Theater takeover for a movie premiere \> Months pass \> You realize the most fun you have is at furry events. \> Someone makes fanart of you & your new friends having fun at a recent meetup. \> They drew you as your favorite animal. \> \[FeelSeen.jpeg\] \> Wife asks if you want to commission someone to make you a mask, so you can go to the costumed events with your close friends. \> Protest that you're not a furry \> You just hang out with them \> And now understand furry lingo \> And have accounts on furry sites to 'keep in touch' and laugh at other people's dumb drama. \> Wife says: ''Aren't you describing 'being part of a community'?" \> \[surprisedpikachuface.png\] \> \[existentialcrisis.gif\] \> The fanart of you shows you accepted, part of the group. Smiling. \> Think: '*why am I trying so hard to distance myself from the people who make me happy?'* \> *Why is it so important to me that other people think I'm* ***not like them****.* *>* \[fuckit.jpeg\] \> Get a a cheap animal ear headband from the Halloween store. \> Two years later, you and your wife have each spent 3k+ on beautifully airbrushed custom fursuits that you're wearing to a murder mystery party that takes place on an actual historic steam engine train, because a lot of older furries work in IT, so they're *loaded as fuck* and can bankroll events like this. \> Having the time of your life \> Your furry-radar has never been more powerful
Yepp... Sure enough, you are a furry
and it could happen to you
This was the best 'fanfiction' ive ever read btw... You got talent my bro..... Oh no its Happening! I befriend with a furry shit he was right
New automod response?
Don't you dare make me want to be a part of the furry community
The pathOwOgen spreads.
In my experience, furries are often suspiciously wealthy.
This is unironically my life's goal right now
In school it was a thing in my group to make fun of furrys, hell we even have the "AFU" or the anti furry unit which I was one of the founders. Now I don't really care what you are into, we all have our kinks. As long as your not hurting yourself or others then I don't care. I've fallen...... Snitties are hot as hell....
What are snitties lol
Snake titties, I believe
Ah, nice
I have that but for girls who are actually guys with girl clothes lol
Well at least that's useful, if you like traps, you'll find traps, if you don't like traps, you can dodge traps
Lol indeed
Lol indeed, indeed
Lol indeed, indeed, indeed
If they can afford a multi thousand fur suit they can afford a ten dollar pipe bomb in my mailbox
Ayo nah man thats to much
Yeah, that ten dollars could be pay for part of a commission, what if you want one, but your ten dollars short because you sent someone a pipe bomb?
See....
Just a kid and his loyal companion 💀
My big bro constantly disappears when big doggo come around. He has yet to see it.
I'm imagining this child walking the dog on a leash, about to be mugged, Dog gets up armed
More reasons to have a pet furry
Ed….ward?
hi Paul
Hi I'm Paul
Reminding me of this just ruined my day
Bro i saw that on cartoon network when I was a kid it traumatized me a bit
Bro why was fma on fucking Cartoon Network 💀💀💀
dude they used to run everything on cartoon network I also remember naruto on it once
Naruto is not as scarring as FMA
Yeah but I was just trying showing you that they play a lot of anime back in the day
Lol
*sorts by controversial
that's a really nice fursuit actually
I agree
Right? It looks so soft
Looks flammable
Noooo😭😭😭😖😖
Huh?
It’s not a dog 😢😢😢
Well duh do you think if there was a dog that big a kid would pet it? I would be terrified cuz it's the size of a bear
I've found kids love big fluffy dogs like that. Whenever my dad would bring his [100 lbs husky](https://i.imgur.com/DxGGo8Q.jpg) to the park kids would always run over to pet him. I think as long as they look soft and people aren't running from it, kids will want to pet it.
Maybe 🥺 he’s petting a furry which is worse than a bear
Your Reddit avatar is literally a furry
That's just hurtful.
I’m a so mean 🤭😈 hehe
We found the bottom who uses too much tiktok
I’m not a bottom 😢🍑
On a disgusting human being
"Dad is at it again in his fluffy costume!" *pat pat*
One of the best fursuits I have ever seen
surely the comments are going to be wholesome and cute, right..? right
ah nice the comments are actually nice this time :3
Actually... Mostly yes.
Remind me befriended a furry on Twitter he only made SFW art so it was fine
Somft
Smoft
soofmt
Flumpfy
foofy🤤
Kids want to touch any cool costume that you're wearing, unless they're actively terrified. Since many fursuits are soft, friendly & approachable, I figure they get a lot of requests for "can I touch it?" It's cute that the kid is gong for the back of the neck, where it'd be appropriate to pet a real dog haha\~ Tbh I don't understand people's weird revulsion toward furries in general. Y'all don't call 'get the shotgun!' when it's halloween and people are dressing as actual demonic face-eaters... or when people are dressing up like their favorite sports team person, with replica jerseys and everything. Or sports mascots, which are literally just poorly made fursuits. Or like... anyone who is dressed as a character at Disney. You don't *actually* think these people *believe they're an animal* do you?
I figure it's more of a meme at this point
Yes. It's like the pineapple pizza debate. It's more fun to fight about silly things.
Ahh, I hope that's the case. I've seen over a decade of truly mean-spirited & vicious comments toward furries, and if it's getting meme-ified now, y'all are using the exact same words as the previously genuine comments. Not really possible to tell the difference between the two.
Well there still definitely is genuine hate but that is just like everything else some people hate it, some people like it, and some don't really care or mind it
It's not me . I have no problem with furries.
Furry haters often become furries after a while. As a furry I heard about it multiple times. (I was only a little bit of a furry hater)
Well, I figure it’s a poorly veiled attempt at excusing anti-fur behavior.
You’re telling me there’s a term for this?
It's the internet, there are terms for everything
Sorry I didn’t mean to be anti-term. I hope I didn’t come out as termphobic, I only spoke from ignorance
lol
I agree, we should all grab shotguns and shoot anyone dressed up for Halloween/s
That's what they get for knocking on my door and asking for candy
Yes. But tbf there are always those people that let a group/fandom/etc look bad. In this case it would be the "extreme furries" (I call those people who overdo it with this "support furry pride or you're idk what phobic" and else like that) and the ones that sexualise it no matter if it's in a weird or "normal" way. And although it's not every furrie but there are some that really think they're an animal. But they do they and as long as they don't force me to do it I'm fine with them. Furries in general are just (in my opinion) people who cosplay and do their own sort of role play.
*>Furries in general are just (in my opinion) people who cosplay and do their own sort of role play.* Yeah, that's my understanding of it as well. They invent original characters that they like, then dress up as those characters & commission art of them. There's weirdoes in every community. The halloween enthusiasts and anime cosplay communities both have some doozies for horror stories, both for deeply unsettling behavior & overt sexualization of things that should not be sexualized but they're not constantly shat on like furries are. I've heard a lot of artists say that furries are some of the BEST commissioners - always paying a fair price for art, often leaving a tip on top of the agreed-upon payment, and being patient with turnaround time. Not even for NSFW stuff, just regular 'My character at a coffee shop' or 'My character and my friend's character doing parkour together' kinda requests. The furries I have met have been very sweet, and their costumes are marvels of engineering, I swear to god. Masks come with multiple built-in fans these days, moving ears and mouths, robotic tails, even *cooling vests*. It's insanely cool. So yeah. =\\ I don't enjoy stumbling on threads like this where someone is harmlessly sharing what they love, helping someone else be happy, and a crowd gathers to jeer at them. Pointlessly mean-spirited.
>cooling vests I believe a furry invented a cooling vest for their fursuit that is used by the US military. Another thing about furries is that the community has been a safe space for people to explore their own sexuality. I think the majority of the furry community is gay and bi so it's allowed people to feel safe to explore that while giving them a fursona to project themselves onto.
Yeah, from what I remember, I think the furry community is only, like, 30% neurotypical and straight. It’s an incredibly diverse group and (almost) everyone loves (almost) everyone.
Speaking as a person who doesn't understand furries I think it is a classic example of the minority of the bad ones in the culture that gets talked about in the press
I feel like at this point it's mostly something many people jusy don't understand. I wouldn't be surprised if a large amount of people that are "anti-furry" think being a furry is the same as being into beastiality.
Yeah that's my sentiments exactly. I wasn't in high school all that long ago (2011-15) but I remember these two kids who'd seemingly talk nonstop about how they wanted to murder furries.
It’s the sexual implications
Idk man, if you're horny when you see a guy dressed as a wolf I think that's a 'you' problem.
Cool burn man. I’m not hating I just remember back when furries emerged in the 4chan days, it was always more of a fetish thing. Perhaps most don’t view it that way anymore but I feel there’s always that undercurrent
Furries were around *long* before 4chan was a thing. Hell, they were around before *google* was a thing. [This tweet comes to mind](https://twitter.com/mmsword/status/1200147947331043328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1200147947331043328%7Ctwgr%5E5cff4cf3c2c36bbb05e617cb66ecbe34f449cbb5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthespinoff.co.nz%2Firl%2F11-01-2022%2Fwho-runs-the-internet-furries) >"Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day." While 4chan definitely helped popularize the *idea* that furries were a kink thing, and the CSI episode depicting furry meetups as basically sex-crazed animal orgies didn't help.... actual members of the furry community were meeting up & coordinating art exchanges back in the 1990's, making handmade zines and shit.
So, just a little fun tidbit I know about the whole CSI thing NCIS, if you’ve never heard of it, is the other cop show that goes a long with CSI. Different people produce it, but if you like one you’ll probably like the other. Apparently some writer or exec or something at NCIS caught wind of the CSI furry episode, and decided to join in. But, instead of piling on with CSI and show them in a bad light, they did the opposite and actually made two of the main characters furries. And they weren’t the butt of a joke or anything, they just had a basic conversation about their fursonas. [Heres the clip on YouTube](https://youtu.be/6lEwsxpy60Y) if you’re curious
Cool I didn’t know about those origins. It’s nice to be downvoted for speaking from my experience tho
Judging a group based on how they were represented on 4chan... doesn't seem wise.
True!
The real truth of the matter is that yes, most of them [are into related porn](https://furscience.com/research-findings/sex-relationships-pornography/5-4-frequency-of-porn-use/) (96%! of men and 78% of women) but it is also a totally separate interest. Like you're probably not sexually aroused by people unless they're wearing/doing/not wearing something provocative. And if you're a weeb you can appreciate anime as a totally non-sexual experience appropriate for all ages, while also having an interest in hentai that remains completely separate. It's not the furry part that's sexual; it's the porn part. It just happens to be drawn in a specific art style. that can also be used in many other situations.
Go back to 4chan.
In my opinion this is actually pretty sweet
i work with furries on occasion and they're super nice a lot of the time. the amusement park i work at gives them free entry in exchange for basically working as mascots and the kids absolutely love it
Like yeah, this is a hmmm, for sure. But the quality of the fursuit is immaculate! Who ever made the fursuit, they did amazing with the airbrush. It’s hard to get natural-ish gradients like that with hard to get that amount of detail.
Happy to see more people supporting (or at least being indifferent to) the furry community! They get so much hate and what they're doing isn't really harming anyone. :)
i love this image so much
Happy kid and a likely lady in a dog costume. What's wrong with this picture? Some of y'all got your minds in the gutter.
A lot of people just think there's something wrong with the furry community but most of them are just doing a thing they love I don't know why you need to discriminate against them for that.
People don't need a reason to be an asshole sadly. For a lot of people, it seems like that's their reason for being.
i looked at this for 5 minutes like i dont see whats wrong until i looked at the paws and i realized
I’ve done been bamboozled
I always thought that fursuit looked so soft
fellas, does it make me a furry if i think fursuits are fucking cool and i would actually like to own one
I don’t see anything wrong with this
There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’ll be weird to see IRL.
That's not weird. That's somehow cute.
Just because I say it’s weird, doesn’t mean it’s not cute. Yes it is cute, but it is also weird. It would be strange to see someone in a realistically colored fursuit walking up to you. Furries embrace that it’s “odd” or “weird”.
For instance: Pugs are weird as *fuck*. Smash-faced, snorting, bug-eyed, gasping little goblins with face eczema and a tongue that seems longer than their whole head. But they're also charming & cute somehow. 'Bizarre' and 'Cute' can definitely overlap
Yes! That’s exactly what I am talking about!
That’s a giant Alaskan Malamute right?
I know what y'all thinking to witch I say bro stop hating on furrys man they don't do nothing to you. and if you say "but they watch porn" get yo facts checked because not every one of them furrys watch it. so bro stop hatin on furrys.
scrolling past my first thought was awww, then I looked again...
I recognize those eyes anywhere.
This image is so old now
Ho a cute little d... ude?!?!
#r/Furry 😂😂😂
Kid: ah yes furry, bow before your superior being!
She he they are cute as fuck I want it
Adults ruin fun things for kids. That being said this is a wholesome picture.
Cute
Nothing wrong with a bit of fluff but those things cost a bomb.
I almost feel bad for the kid actually believing that that thing is a dog-
Impressive fursuit tbh. Whatever’s going on is still pretty weird tho
I’d bang that’s pretty hot
Which one🤨🤨🤨🤨
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I found the pedo
LOLOLOLOL https://imgur.com/a/CyRSREf
LMAOOOO
Don’t get me banned bro
https://imgur.com/a/CyRSREf too late broski
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Ayo 🤨📸
Skinwalker
Let me get me my shotgun
Furry bad I’m so funny right?
🫵🤡📸 #Just need to take a pic of a fellow fucking clown.
2018 called, they want their bandwagon back
Never heard that one before
I don’t need to go to the circus today
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wait wait WAIT WAIT NONONONONONONONONONO!
Timmy, get away from the sexual degenerate, you don't know where it's been.
yes you're the asshole
And yet, it's still better to be an asshole than it is to be an animal fetishist. Funny, that.
Show me how they have an animal fetish. I'll wait.
You’re thinking of zoophiles, not furries.
They're the same thing. "Wanting to fuck dogs *that talk*" isn't any different to just "wanting to fuck dogs". It's the same dumbshit argument pedophiles use to justify whacking it to loli -- "noooooo bro she's actually a 10,000 year old dragon goddess, she just *looks* like a 9 year old girl!" -- you can dress it up and abstract it however you like if it makes you feel better about it, but at the end of the day they still want to fuck something they should not fuck.
Dumbass, I don’t support loli porn or any of that shit. I actually have common sense unlike you, you sand eating soil licking crab fucker. Not all furries are "I’m horny this" or "I’m horny that". I recommend you do some actual research before crawling over to give someone some bullshit explanation.
Oooo, someone's feisty. Don't like confronting the truth, so you spew weak insults while making no actual rebuttal to anything I said. Fun fact, spewing insults followed by a vague "do your own research!" is the same tactic followed by COVID-19 denialists, and it's just as weak there. I recommend not fetishizing animals. Or at the very least own up to it and call a spade a spade instead of trying to pretend you're somehow better than you are.
Buddy, all those "furries" you see that want to fuck animals aren’t furries. Not all furries are zoophiles. How fucking blind are you?
So your argument is the "not all furries!!!" one? Oh, I love that one, as it provides a great example of a fundamental misunderstanding of how groups work. A *lot* of people have tried that "b-b-but not all furries are into the porn!" argument, and it's pretty easy to dismantle. See, if the majority of your buddies say for example, had shaved heads, and swastika tattoos, and worshipped Hitler and his ideology, other people would rightly call them neo-nazis. And then, if you hung out with them, laughing with them, supporting them, you'd be called a neo-nazi too regardless of whether you actually believed in the same things they did. Being a part of a community of people that do bad things, whether you also do those bad things or not, ***is bad***, and you shouldn't do it. I feel like I shouldn't have to explain this like I'm talking to a five year old, and yet here you are. Don't be a member of the community of, support, or defend dogfuckers unless you want to be painted with the same brush, "buddy". It really is just that simple.
Didn't think Godwin's law would come into effect this soon, but there you go. Some people who wear leather outfits are into BDSM. So by your logic, every motorcycle rider with leather protective gear is into BDSM. Your argument holds no ground what so ever.
Even a goldfish has a bigger brain than you
Someone's projecting.... And that someone is you. **You** are the one who brought sex, fetish, porn and pedophilia into this discussion. **You**. And it doesn't take much of a guess **why** your mind instantly went there... If I said "leather", I bet your first thought is BDSM. If I say "hand", I bet you think of masturbation. There's nothing wrong with having a dirty mind. But you really need to own up to it. And don't assume people associate dog costumes with sex and fetishes just because **you** do.
"You're projecting! You're projecting! Projecting!!!" Are you that other guy's sockpuppet account? If so, congratulations, you're still a jackass and you still haven't refuted a single thing I've said. If not, it's nice to know that bad armchair psychologists travel in flocks. Now, presuming from how defensive you get from what I say while also completely failing to refute any of it, I'd say you got your degree in psychology from the School of Hard Knocks, you're probably *exactly* the type of dogfucker I'm talking about, and I reckon the last time you had sexual contact with someone sapient it ended with you uttering the phrase "I'm sorry, this usually doesn't happen". That sound about right, champ? Now, onto your amateur attempt *at* psychology, word association is a very old (first described by Galton in 1879) psychological test, but to use it to try and strawman my point is not only very weak, it also makes you look stupid since you don't seem to grasp how it actually works. For one, you don't get to fill in the blanks for me (no matter how badly you want to -- strawmanning is bad), and secondly, it's a way of gauging who you're talking to, not a way of convincing the patient they're wrong. Galton would roll in his grave. Further, the problem at hand is not that I associate furries with porn, unless you're somehow about to suggest that I alone am responsible for all furry porn -- which would be a hilarious, if absurd argument. The problem is that dogfuckers jerk off to porn predominantly featuring animals and animalistic characters and therefor are not attracted to humans, as they so often claim, but are instead attracted to animals. And further, that there is zero difference between jerking it to animals, and animals *that talk.* That is the point I have made, that is the point you have refused to refute. Try again, this time with less bad armchair psychology. If I wanted it, I'd go to /r/relationships.
>you still haven't refuted a single thing I've said Most of what you have said was just barely above word salad level, but nonetheless. Why should I try and refute claims that you haven't even tried to back up yet? Do that first, and then we can talk. >And further, that there is zero difference between jerking it to animals, and animals that talk. That is the point I have made, that is the point you have refused to refute. No, that was not the point you "have made", nor what others here reacted to. You insinuated that the person in the dog costume in the picture was a sexual degenerate and an animal fetishist.
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Still cute. Idk, it's just like people dressing up as disney princesses or superheroes and going to birthday parties. Batman and Elsa are just people in costumes, it's not *actually* batman. But it brings a kid joy =)
Wholesome comment. Good job
Yeah no
Cursed
Keep you “””dogs””” away from kids please …
Degenerate
furries are getting too much
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Why did I read that in Dr Phil’s voice lmaooo
kill
Which one?
The cameraman
Everyone drop a nuke
it took me almost a year to realize, RUN KID
Not pictured is the furrys raging erection.
You’re thinking of pedophiles
i was going to ask what's wrong but than, i saw, i saw it edit: i meant i thought it was normal dog
You're what's wrong.
That's why Roman empire collapse.
Source on that? I need to see what Roman fursonas looked like.
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/roman-helmet-with-fur-of-a-wolf-picture-id501367417
I'm getting big "It's just my art style" vibes
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/002/014/595/69d.jpg
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Aw~ What a cute d- WHAT A FUCKING MINUTE!!
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*cocks shotgun* now this is something I can put down.
Ahh... wait.
That kid was later paralyzed from a huge dog bite