/fur/ - Furry★

>>77047 (OP)

Too autistic, too human, too poor, too boring, too normal, too sane, all of the above. Take your pick.

Even though I've got a fursona* I still have the same problems (except that i've never had furry friends). It's amusing that the slogan of furry is basically "we will take literally everyone who can at the very least tolerate dogs" yet it winds up being harder to get into than Area 51.

*technically i don't think of it as a fursona because it predates knowing furry existed, but to any outsider that's what it is. I'm basically only here today because I never got over the disappointment that furry wasn't actually a community for maladaptive daydreamers to share worldbuilding with animal people in it.

>>77047 (OP)

I'm sinking my way into it while slowly trying to escape.

>>77054

>Too everything

That's what it feels like a lot of the time. I'm too frugal to buy art because I don't want to waste money if I dont get into the community, but having art is one of the anchors that builds your legitimacy. I'm too much of a normie to really dive into the fandom, but also too weird to be part of mainstream society. I dont think I've ever been considered 'boring' but I really cant get into the drama that seems ever present within social groups of furries.

Its fucking depressing to think that I cant fit in with even the lowest-ppssible denominator on the internet.

>>77064

Better to be a peasant in Heaven than a king in Hell. I too know what it's like to be stuck in the in between normalcy and internet autism, and at the end of the day it's probably for the best not to become part of such a mess.

>>77066

>Better to be a peasant in Heaven than a king in Hell.

Doesn't the expression go the other way round?...

>>77066

I mean, on the one hand sure. But I dunno. I just dont have that many outside friends, and it's not that I'm not a socially-awkward guy. I just dont really live/interact with people my age or people whom I have stuff in common with. Internet friends are something I never really made either.

>>77047 (OP)

There isn't much of a larger "fandom" to get into anymore. Identity politics, lynchmobs, and "progressives" pretty much killed it, and what was left broke up into a bunch of sub groups.

And unfortunately as a side effect to that, all of said subgroups are highly defensive and volatile. Best thing you can do is just lurk around until you maybe find a small group of people you can befriend and hang out with, I'd stay away from large communities.

>>77089

>blames it on /pol/ memes rather than the fact the fandom has ALWAYS been a haven of drama, hatred and lies

>>77089

I mean, I guess. It really just seems like the only groups who are indeed open to outsiders, tends to be just low-quality yiff groups. Which aren't usually interested in just hanging out and talking with some vidya.

>>77107

your nostalgia goggles are problematic and have to be purged to improve the community, unless you're looking back to something like usenet. and even then...

the fragmentation of the community is probably driven more by technology than by SJWs. Even now furry is relatively centralised, but with Twitter and Discord it's easier to just hang around with a subgroup than be forced to put up with a wider fandom. Especially since furry is so rarely "really" about the animal people, it's usually much more about a few individual, popular personalities. If you want to talk Robin Hood, why use Furaffinity Forums when you could join Discord's Robbin Hood chat? If you want to talk one artist, why use one big centralised site where they ignore your shouts when you could shitpost @ them on Twitter and occasionally get a like(favourite? i forget.). Then there's Tumblrs too.

The big thing with Discord, Twitter and Tumblr is that they all also stream content to your face. Your art gets a burst of attention as soon as it's released and then there's basically no slow-burn to popularity like there is with a gallery-style site like furaffinity. For the average non-autist, why dig with a spoon for content you like when you can be drowned in it every morning?

>>77111

The problem with fragmentation is that it allows people to only to receive information that supports what they already think. It's why it took /pol/ and Fox News viewers 18 months to realize that Trump is a complete retard; because while they were THERE, they were only being told how excellent he is for a very long time. It's easy to be fooled into believing that you're right when you shut out any and all voices that say you're wrong, and that happens easily and automatically now. With teeny tiny little insular communities that cater to every little thing these days (and software that "predicts" what people think and bombards them with more of the same) it's had the result of even completely insane sub-groups (like Flat Earthers) to see a rise in popularity. Essentially, everyone has gained the ability to surround themselves with yes men, and the insidious part is that it often happens without them completely realizing it. Times past, you saw balanced news on the ONLY three news networks (four if you count public broadcasting) and handful of local newspapers. But now, there's dozens of news networks for every political ideology and position, and even more online news sites --- and these have virtually no vetting process so can be the words of any Joe Schmo who can make a basic webpage. Whereas people used to be exposed to the entire rainbow, so to speak, now they can end up where day after day they only see the color yellow. Nothing but yellow, yellow, yellow from the handful of very censured and particular news media they consume. Pretty soon, they actually begin to believe that the entire world is really only yellow.

Complete bullshit thread, OP "knows" what he's doing.

>>77047 (OP)

Youre already a furfag

>>77047 (OP)

>I'm not mentally ill

congrats

>>77089

the latter half of this post is true, I've had the same furry friends I've talked to for the past three years or so because most of the other furries I've talked to are boring. they just play video games and talk about banal bullshit like what artist to commission or what they're gonna do at the next furry con or what reddit.com/r/furry_irl post is funny

>>77047 (OP)

You can't really meaningfully interact with the furry as a 'fandom' unless you have a large (like rich trust fund daddy level large) quantity of disposable income, the ability to produce art (animation is even better) and a high level of autism. You need to not only wish to engage in petty drama but revel in it. The furry fandom is one of the most cancerous things on the planet but it's true.

just masturbate to cubs and ferals and youll be a furry and get a murrsuit and whore yourself out in shitty porn.

>>91450

it sucks that this is so true but I still strive for it just because being a nobody in this fandom is so infuriatingly boring. Must be my high level autism showing, tbh

Now if only I had the disposable income or artistic talent.

>>91478

Find literally any other fandom to be a part of if it's that important to you. Furry completely went to shit when it became the playground of art students with rich parents and a lack of guidance. Either take out a lone for that murrsuit and commission a few hundred pictures of your cancerous fursona or get the fuck out while you can. I'm here for the sole hope of maybe one day finding a cute boyfriend but that hope dwindles almost every day.

>>91480

cute? everyone in the fandom has mental problems thats what its been an escape from reality and an escape from sanity.

keep looking for that "cute boyfriend" aka that one thing that lasts for maybe 10 years if you have good genes and then it will all go downhill when your 30 then 40 then 50 then 60 then youll be 70 will your boyfriend still be "cute then" or will you proliferate into pedophilia to find your fix?

>>91480

aka your going to be alone because your looking for the vaniest thing society can offfer and if looks alone are what you want in a person this is why your exactly alone because you get your one mental fix have sex and go oh fuck now what do i do and panic.

>>91493

>>91492

Whoa did I walk into the fucking psychiatrist office? When I say 'cute' I'm not talking entirely about looks you fucking mongoloids, a cute personality exists too. I know furries are retarded and insecure but you really could stand to not be so fucking retarded all the time.

>>91497

>cute

>as in innocent and bubbly and naive

>just like

Oh gee youre a pedo and you dont even know it

>>91497

>but you really could stand to not be so fucking retarded all the time.

With speech like that it's hard to believe you're single.

>>91506

If you're right/Christian at all you're going to be too right leaning for the furry fandom. Write it off.

so dont try and promptly fucking leave we dont need you.

>>91505

i love the sarcasm.

>>91637

Generally speaking you can still partake in anthro material without associating yourself with the fandom. Still, I'd say you should just broaden your horizons into another creative but niche hobby like tabletop.

>>77047 (OP)

I mostly know that feel. The furry community at large isn't really engaging unless you're looking to blow lots of money on degenerate shit, or you're a massive slut, or you love petty drama.

I don't think you need to be super into the fandom in any mainstream (for furry) way to be a furry if you want. I'm basically just in a small server with a couple of chill bros and kooky cunts that I'm friends with. Sometimes we do furry stuff like share furry memes, or some yiff, or make some of our own art, but mostly we just hang out there. It's comfy.

I can help you design a fursona, anon. I just combined the 2 pokemon I liked the aesthetic of the most, because double the pokemon equals double the autism. Just pick something you like, doesn't even need to be an animal; you could be one of those airplane people or something; it doesn't really matter. Just don't make it overly flashy. Simple is better. I got another pokemon friend who's just a buizel with some kind of hat that he likes and aviators. Simple, but still recognizable as his character.

>>91648

I'll have to look into that, thanks.

>>91608

Out of curiosity, why is there such energetic opposition? I'm not going to attempt to squeeze myself an anywhere, but I am curious why you (or people in general) are so against my being there given some of the other individuals that are around. One of the servers I lurk is also pretty casually anti-Christian in sentiment whenever it comes up in their conversations.

If you know one fandom, you know them all. It is the same sexist, hateful, lovingly, perverted, bestiality loving and disgusting piece of shit in the deepest of the internet anus called the Intrawub.

It is always the same stinky and slimy filling but only with a different package and look.

>>91480

There's still hope of finding a furry bf to fall in love with. I happened to meet an absolute catch on 4ch. The funny thing is, neither of us are involved in the fandom, aside from fapping to gay furry porn. I might make a fursona sooner or later, but in regards to my bf, furry is merely an added bonus that we have in common.

>>77113

I much prefer information not being in the control of so few people. The issue was a million times worse before the internet, because the truth was much more easily suppressed. That's not to say technology can't become a tool of oppression in the wrong hands though- just look at China and its Social Credit system.

>>91658

They're not exactly good at handling dissent, so they aggressively run off and publicly shame anybody that doesn't fit the current furfag zeitgeist. It's pretty consistent really- whether it's political views, religion, or even constructive criticism of popufurs and the fandom at large. My advice is to watch this trashfire from as far away as possible, it's full of insecure rich kids with nothing to do but ruin each other and waste money.

>Just can't get into the 'furry fandom'

Why would you want to?

>>77098

Isn't there a version in the bible that's closer to what that anon said?

be prepared to spend alot like 5 grand or more in the fandom to get any bit of reputation.

its not like 2010 and older where people were less about excess and saving a sinking ship.

>>77047 (OP)

It's all on a spectrum, maybe even an autism spectrum. If you can't get into it, you don't necessarily have to. You cannot force yourself to like something without some severe mental gymnastics. It's okay to just jack it to animal people or fantasize about otherworldly concepts.

>>77054

>>91408

>>91427

It's so shitty because the fandom used to be all about that at one point, especially the Furcadia community.

Then there was a shift in the community as a whole, the age of the "Popufur" started. Fursonas became a thing and pushed characters out the window. Now everyone were obsessed with these Marry Sue's of themselves.

Then the world building stopped. Every roleplay has to be a club/bar/RL except furries. Then it all followed through.

Yeah there are the holdouts of the good 'ol days but they're becoming rarer and rarer as the agenda is pushed.