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PrinceKaro posted...

starcow posted...

everyone hates each other for very silly, minor reasons.

this is very true and is one the reasons i do not participate socially in the fandom any more.

i am trying to find more social avenues that are not so based on furry or being just a hot mess online in general

Esuriat posted...

If someone does have a problematic view I don't see it as bad if they get challenged on it, at least inherently. What I take issue with is how such a large contingent take the attitude of never forgiving people for their transgressions. People aren't going to get everything right immediately. Then you have people making these call outs a massive, public ordeal on Twitter when they could likely handle the situation with a DM conversation.

That said, I think the rhetoric about the fandom being a social field of landmines is a bit overstated, but as someone with severe anxiety I definitely feel that fear about everything crumbling from a single misstep.

the problem isn't being challenged by it, so much as like, taking a screenshot and posting it on twitter like you got "the epic own" on someone, and then siccing all your friends on them like dogs. In the past week this has been a heavy topic. in the past year or so, so much of furry twitter interaction has been people trying to dunk on other people, and just trying to get their hour of feeling cool in front of their friends. it's really frustrating to see. then everyone hides on alt accounts and says poopy doo-doo things about everyone, because for some reason in furry actual discussion leads to horrible fragmenting of communities and flinging insults.

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

When I was waiting at the airport for my vacation a month back there were furries departing on our same flight. The ones by us were very unfortunate smelling and all wore odd animal shirts. And there was one little girl who was only wearing her wolf head around while her very depressed looking mother followed her around.

This is my only run-in with the furry culture.

This checks out. Everyone likes to wear their furry shirts to the airport so they can spot other furries going to the same con. A lot of the times my experience with furries in the wild is like:

There are: furries :)
and there are: furries :(

There's also a decent amount of children at cons, or parents who bring their families, which I feel is pretty baffling. If it was up to me, furry cons would absolutely be 18+. There are certain sub-groups of congoers(who aren't necessarily furries or fursuiters, but those aren't excluded either) who like to get uhhh, steamy in public.