that if you're a fan of something or a member of a community that means you have a special interest of said thing or community!!!
"furry" isn't a fandom. it's not an art style. it's not a social movement. it's a giant community of losers who bond over their mutual loveual deviancies while shielding each other with a ten-foot-high wall of denial. nobody buys the bullstuff that youre somehow obsessed with the way Star Fox characters are drawn, you don't obsess over random bullstuff like that for no reason.
what's worse is the furries like you who are like "yeah, we're furries, but we're better than
those furries who forget dogs and dress in animal costumes"
its a load of horse stuff. you think you and your special little group of furries are somehow unique and you act like youre working hard out there to make furries look good, when everyone still sees you as the generic animal research enthusiasts they know you to be. its a bullstuff claim to try and state that the fandom isnt about research or love with these anthropomorphic monstrosities you create. e621 is a furry site that specializes in furry research and it contains nearly 400,000 images.
four hundred thousand images of animals loving. that is an absolutely huge number when you take into account that "furry" is only the word that the english-speaking sects of self-righteous zoophiles use.
so, vincent, explain to me again how furries are a fandom and not a special interest.