I actually witnessed a guy discovering and becoming part of the fandom in college. Bearing in mind in the UK at the time you left school at 16 years old and college is kind of an extension of high school until uni. So this guy must have been 17 so still basically a kid but no less cringy.
>First few months just a typical spazzy kid, bit of a loner, had an NES controller designed backpack, occasionally quoted memes irl, just assumed he was somewhere on the spectrum and left him at that. I accepted his friend request on facebook (Back when I actually used facebook) because why not.
>Notice he changed his middle name to "Wolfboy", thought nothing on it, assumed he was just an edgy kid, probably had a few giggles.
>He starts drawing pawprints all over his notebooks in college, it clicks. Oh shit I am watching a repeat of myself at 14 when I discovered the fucking fandom, kill me now.
>He then starts to greet the few friends he has made by making fucking dog noises at them from time to time
>Catch him looking at FA on library computers occasionally, not on SFW mode either, still to this day never knew why the site wasn't blocked on campus, deviantart was.
>Near the end of our year in the same class, he started wearing a fuzzy grey wolf tail which he attached to the belt at the back on his jeans.
It's been 8 years. He's now a fursuiter and has a lynx fursona. He attends furmeets on the reg, thankfully I don't do any of that shit anymore (because the london fur meets actually make me want to ram an ice pick up my nose into my brain) so he still has no idea I'm also a furry and I'm happy with this.
He seems to be quite content now though so I won't rag on his current self, his "furry awakening" however what a hilarious display of tisms that had me grinning from ear to ear each day so If you're in here college furfag buddy, thank you for making my college years a bit more memorable.