There's been all sorts of news stories throughout the past few years. The key phrase here is "that I've seen"
Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don't exist. Also I should mention that when I say "reputable source" what I mean is they're informative sources, not an entertainment show like CSI
fox is a news source
out of every news source i follow i generally do not see anything about furries unless it's actually important, as the homicide was
obviously this is skewed and it could just be that i happen to follow news sources that
don't talk about furries, but you can't rule out the possibility of vice-versa, you could just happen to follow news sources that talk about furries much more often than other sources
Yes, it is strange. Most furries will freely admit that.
But again, strange isn't a reason to throw the amount of hate that some people do.
There's all sorts of people that like all sorts of strange things. But I never feel the need to go out of my way to bother them for it
i don't recall any furry i know saying it's strange
and strange / weird / different shouldn't warrant hatred, but obviously it does.
but this doesn't mean that
every furry is only hated because of them being different. a lot of them
are degenerates and create "works of art" that are just disgusting to a normal person, which of course can be said about a lot of communities, even blockland. remember those research models i made a post about a year or so ago?
I said most people, not all.
All you need to do is look at this thread.
You're the only person to actually attempt to communicate. Everyone else just says "lmao stop" "you're embarrassing"
I respond to an outdated Badspot quote with nothing more than more recent Badspot quotes, and all I get is "yiff in hell"
you said most regular people don't care, this is what you said about people that hate furries
These days, your average person who hates them are denizens of the internet hiding behind anonymity; either trolls, or the type of people who just have to have something to hate.
most was not included
the forums are definitely a mean place which is why you get met with "stop" rather than an actual discussion most of the time. either they don't want to explain why they don't like furries because they think it's wasted effort, they simply don't like furries, or don't like specific furries
You know conventions aren't just in the middle of nowhere, right? They're in the middle of major cities, with all sorts of businesses and businesspeople all over the place. And convention attendees don't just stay in the hotel the whole time, they wander the city.
The hotel also isn't there exclusively for the convention, either. There's always people there for business trips and such, and they're very easy to identify: formal clothing and a facial expression of confused amusement
i understand where conventions are at, i've been to a few gun shows, outdoor conventions, etc, at a fairly large expo center. my point is why would someone
stop at the center if they don't like furries? if someone is on their way to a business or something of the sort, i doubt they're going to stop walking / riding their bike or park their car to go check out a bunch of people they don't like
the ONLY reason i can see someone who doesn't like furries stopping at a furry convention is because they're either recording it to make some silly video on why they don't like furries, are there simply to harass furries, or are just interested and would rather learn more, but i highly doubt the latter
It's not just "here's your spot, go do your thing and give us money"
The employees are going out of their way to go to us, interact/dance/generally have fun with us
i didn't assume they just told you to stand around
but my point is even if you're not a furry or in some strange get-up, they would still interact with you since you're being nice and helping out, especially if you're recognized as someone who comes around often
I'm sure there's some, but there's plenty of people who DO fully know what furries are and still don't care
and those people obviously don't hate furries or disregard odd part of the furry community as a few "bad apples"
but i can already tell you a great big majority of people in cities have no idea what a furry is and just think they're basically animal people, not anything more. that's what i thought furries were for awhile
As Ike said, this isn't specific to furries, it's a fandom thing in general. Look at anime. You're probably going to encounter the same issue if you image search an anime character. There's all sorts of weirdness, like anime girl body pillows. I have many friends into anime, and their more outspoken about their hentai interests than than any of my furry friends are.
And yet nobody goes around complaining about anime fans. You get the occasional "lol weebs" here and there, but not to the extent of furry.
speed grapher is probably my favorite anime and has some pretty heavily loveual themes, so i decided to take you up on that
out of the main cast (tatsumi saiga, kagura tennouzu, hibari ginza, chouji suitengu and shinsen tennouzu), there was a single loveual picture and it was of an actual scene in the show
keep in mind the tony the tiger research is on the
second row of images in a google search, so i'm only looking at the first four rows.
maybe not on this forum, but anime fans definitely get flak and hated. not to the extent of a furry, you're right, but it's because one is a person who watches cartoons, and the other is someone who calls themself a dog-man
Why would a website dedicated to pictures of animals not have an option to filter by species?
If you're uploading a picture of a dog, why would you not tag it as "this is a picture of a dog!"
And how are your misunderstanding the point of a tag system this badly?
It's not about saying "this is what I am"
It's about maximizing your audience, about helping people looking for pictures off dogs to find your picture by saying "hey, here's a picture of a dog"
i'm talking about the tag you can put on your profile specifically for telling people what you are, not on the pictures themselves
guess i should've been more clear about that
Can you provide some sort of numbers to back this up? Or is this just confirmation bias? Because in my experience, it's been the other way around, e.g. my hentai friends more open than my furry friends
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying it is or isn't. I'm legitimately interested in seeing a way to quantify this.
i'm not sure you can back up something like "x being more prominent than y in this community" with actual numbers, unless you actively watch a huge group of furries that are generally different and try and tie together what they seem to be interested in the most
obviously i haven't gone to an extent like that nor do i think i ever would, and obviously even if you pooled together a thousand furries that are all different from one another, you wouldn't get what every furry is interested in. you'd just get what that pool of furries seems to care the most about
but again, it's the same reason why deviantart seems to have the general consensus that the place is full of garbage: it just happens to be more prominent. i'm not sure how or why, but it's just how it seems to be.
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