Why does Reddit hate furries so much?

[H0R53]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

animated, talking animals. big diffrace to people running around in fursuits, haveing sex with other people in fursuits and so on. the art is then connected to that culture and therefor hated aswell. its quite diffrent from disneys animation style aswell, being close to manga/anime with its big eyes and exadurated character

That's not necessarily true about the art style.

There's a lot of different art styles, and some artists even like to stay true to the Disney-esque style.

I can think of a lot of different ones, hyperrealism being my favourite.

Just now, Nuluvius said:

Exactly what I said, I tend to play devils advocate I am afraid thus I am calling you out as a troll.

I'm a troll? Okay buddy.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, H0R53 said:

That's not necessarily true about the art style.

There's a lot of different art styles, and some artists even like to stay true to the Disney-esque style.

I can think of a lot of different ones, hyperrealism being my favourite.

never seen anything but the anime looking one. but that dosent even matter, its connected to the culture so its hated aswell.

[H0R53]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

never seen anything but the anime looking one. but that dosent even matter, its connected to the culture so its hated aswell.

Take a gander at Orangina commercials. It's a multipurpose orange beverage.

 

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, H0R53 said:

Take a gander at Orangina commercials. It's a multipurpose orange beverage.

 

i did indeed find that a bit distrubing, the straeing eyes like looking into my soul... also neat how i understood some of it without the subtitles, yay for almost failing 9th grade french lol.

[TheRandomness]

17 minutes ago, Nuluvius said:

Exactly what I said, I tend to play devils advocate I am afraid thus I am calling you out as a troll.

Troll accusations are against the community standard.

 

Please can we steer clear of any arguments? I can see one start. Also, keep discussions of said artists and that site to either PMs or off-site, please. 

[H0R53]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Also, keep discussions of said artists and that site to either PMs or off-site, please. 

Sounds like someone's uncomfortable about furries.

 

Just kidding. I won't talk about it any more.

[TheRandomness]

Just now, H0R53 said:

Sounds like someone's uncomfortable about furries.

 

Just kidding. I won't talk about it any more.

(Read my profile, there's a little snippet of info there :P)

Nah, these forums have been listed as a NSFW site before because people posted too much porn, so any accidental links and such may cause that to happen again. 

[H0R53]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Nah, these forums have been listed as a NSFW site before because people posted too much porn, so any accidental links and such may cause that to happen again. 

Really? By what, school filters?

 

Interestingly enough it'd be easy to store said pr0n in PMs and look at it at a place like school hahaha

[TheRandomness]

Just now, H0R53 said:

Really? By what, school filters?

 

Interestingly enough it'd be easy to store said pr0n in PMs and look at it at a place like school hahaha

If a site contains enough links to anything nsfw that is known by google, it'll get flagged as a nsfw by itself. PMs are exempt because they cannot be access by anything really unless they're reported. 

[H0R53]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

If a site contains enough links to anything nsfw that is known by google, it'll get flagged as a nsfw by itself. PMs are exempt because they cannot be access by anything really unless they're reported. 

So basically

[TheRandomness]

Just now, H0R53 said:

So basically

PMs would be on the little ledge behind that pillar unless that's not how that works  But if you're going to do that, you may as well go on discord or something for it. 

[themctipers]

Just now, H0R53 said:

So basically

there's a reason why we can't discuss anything remotely close to NSFW

 

because google will flag this site as a porn site lol 

[H0R53]

7 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

PMs would be on the little ledge behind that pillar unless that's not how that works  But if you're going to do that, you may as well go on discord or something for it. 

I'm out of college so I have no interest, I keep all my pr0n on my 1.5TB RAID0 array.

 

539 files, 4 folders, 532mb.

 

LOL.

 

Back when I had a Dell Inspiron 17R Special Edition, I had a 90GB OCZ Agility 3, and a 500GB drive for games.

 

It was more like 13,000 files, 260 folders, and 13.6GB.

[YedZed]

3 hours ago, H0R53 said:

The furry fandom is a subculture interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, the ability to speak, walk on two legs, and wear clothes.

Okay, so mainly the furries people hate on are the one's that straight up walk around and interact in costume, or are into that. Noone, i repeat, noone is gonna be against someone who is interested in fucking stuart little or the like. That definition is so conservative it covers 50% of cartoon characters...

[Kamina]

I don't like furries.

 

They disgust me.

 

[ARikozuM]

We're humans and we always usually deduce the worst in others.

[PlayStation 2]

Because the community of Reddit is genuinely annoying as hell. Not enough to be toxic and not enough to be enjoyable, even ironically.

[H0R53]

3 hours ago, Kamina said:

I don't like furries.

 

They disgust me.

 

Those are extreme examples by people that the general furry community despise.

 

Sexual attraction to furry characters is a polarizing issue met with vehement opposition within the fandom; in one survey with 4300 furry respondents, 37% answered that sexual attraction is important in their furry activities, 38% were ambivalent, and 24% answered that it has little or nothing to do with their furry activities.

 

So 63% of furries are subjectively normal people.

 

In a different online survey, 33% of furry respondents answered that they have a "significant sexual interest in furry", another 46% stated they have a "minor sexual interest in furry", and the remaining 21% stated they have a "non-sexual interest in furry". The survey specifically avoided adult-oriented websites to prevent bias.

 

A portion of the fandom is sexually interested in zoophilia (sex with animals), although a majority take a negative stance towards it.

 

That majority are the subjectively normal people within the fandom.

 

Liking anthropomorphic characters is not abnormal for people in the slightest.

 

Sexually liking anthropomorphic characters for their animalistic qualities is.

[kasugatei]

I personally don't like them, but don't hate them either.

 

IMHO they are just weird and I live in a country where weird is "normal". 

[LAwLz]

2 hours ago, H0R53 said:

Those are extreme examples by people that the general furry community despise.

 

Sexual attraction to furry characters is a polarizing issue met with vehement opposition within the fandom; in one survey with 4300 furry respondents, 37% answered that sexual attraction is important in their furry activities, 38% were ambivalent, and 24% answered that it has little or nothing to do with their furry activities.

 

So 63% of furries are subjectively normal people.

 

In a different online survey, 33% of furry respondents answered that they have a "significant sexual interest in furry", another 46% stated they have a "minor sexual interest in furry", and the remaining 21% stated they have a "non-sexual interest in furry". The survey specifically avoided adult-oriented websites to prevent bias.

 

A portion of the fandom is sexually interested in zoophilia (sex with animals), although a majority take a negative stance towards it.

 

That majority are the subjectively normal people within the fandom.

 

Liking anthropomorphic characters is not abnormal for people in the slightest.

 

Sexually liking anthropomorphic characters for their animalistic qualities is.

So basically what you're saying is that if you have watched for example the Lion King and enjoyed it then you're a furry? Come on...

When someone hears the word furry then instantly think of the people who are sexually attracted to anthropomorphic animals. Even according to the surveys you yourself quoted, less than 25% of furries said it was not a sexual thing. That means over 75% do have some sexual attraction to anthropomorphic animals. The surveys also seemed pretty biased by themselves since they specifically avoided certain websites because that would raise the number of people thinking it was sexual. I mean, it certainly would raise the percentage but there is no way of knowing if that number would have been more or less accurate.

 

Imagine if 95% of the furry community only cared about porn and were all located on the same website.

You can't just go "oh we want to avoid skewing the results so we will only ask on this website where 5% of the community is. Oh look, it's 50/50 if they like furry porn or not".

A statistic like that could be presented as 50% for and 50% don't care about furry porn. The real and accurate number would actually be 97.5% thinks porn is an integral part, and 2.5% does not.

 

So those surveys are fairly meaningless since they come from a biased sample, and even then the non-sexual crowd was a rather small minority. Depending on the wording the numbers might be even lower. For example if the survey asked if they thought sexual attraction was an important part of being a furry they are no longer answering what they prefer, but rather what they think is acceptable.

Think of it like this, if someone asked me if I thought being homosexual was OK I would say yes. That does not mean I am homosexual however. Depending on how the question was worded you will get two different statistics which might sound like they mean the same but, but actually mean completely different things.

 

 

 

Anyway, it's not just people on Reddit that hate furries (as in, people who are sexually attracted to anthropomorphic animals). Pretty much everyone does. Abnormal sexual fetishes are almost always looked down on by society as a whole. In the case of furries, the expectations of how they act (based on how some furries act and events that have happened) also makes people resent you even more. Furries are known for being weird and obnoxious. You might not be, but the general perception of furries is that they are.

You better get used to it, because the more communities you go to the more you will realize that it's not just Reddit.

[Mooshi]

Reddit is just 4chan for sophisticated neckbeards tbh

 

When it comes to furries, I'm indifferent. I'm also not going to pretend it's rainbows and butterflies to defend something full of degeneracy lol. 

 

Like please don't pretend the fandom isn't pretty sexualized. I have lots more respect for a lewd furry than one constantly sweeping things under the rug to maintain some non-existent image. Just be honest dudes and dudettes it's cool.

[Megah3rtz]

10 hours ago, H0R53 said:

Considering the Internet is about 35% furries that statement is statistically inaccurate.

What about the furries who hate themselves 

[TheKDub]

10 hours ago, RevoltTrain said:

95% of the internet hates furries

 

Not just Reddit

I agree, much more of the internet than just Reddit hates furries. I'm not sure if 95% is quite accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's close.

[Mooshi]

Just now, TheKDub said:

I agree, much more of the internet than just Reddit hates furries. I'm not sure if 95% is quite accurate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's close.

Furries hate other furries lolololol

 

Having an anthro persona is fine, being into the art is fine, come at me with yiff yaff scritch scritch murr =^•^= and you get the hose.

[Taja]

What furries are, really? Honest question.

 

For all I have seen, I just assumed furries were people with a "fetish" for ficticious animals, like cartoons or game characters.