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chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
it’s 2025 and people still pretend to hate furries lol
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
dude lol it’s fine. it’s a hobby. you know it, i know it, everyone knows it. zoomers are fine with furries, alpha even more so. you’re not going to win this just stop. it’s so dumb.
papalonian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
zoomers are fine with furries, alpha even more so. you’re not going to win this just stop.
Who’s trying to win anything? Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For the record, you sound exactly like the type of person a furry wouldn’t ever want to befriend so worry not, bud
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
weird that you’re focusing on minors when i mentioned two generations
if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along
most furries are normal about their hobby is the overall point here, and one that i have seen spread like wildfire online the lat 5 or so years. i have seen furry posts on TikTok receive a ton of attention and all the comments are some variation of “why did people hate furries?” or “furries seem cool.” it might be cringey but being cringe is not embarrassing anymore. catch up. it’s freeing.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
Holy shit, is Gen Z the new Millennials? Gen Z is commonly agreed to be the generation born between roughly 1995 and 2012, meaning that the oldest of them would be 30.
Existential crisis aside, my real point is that I’ve been around the internet a long time - long enough to have seen the start of hate against furries - and I’d like to take your second part and play with it in that context because I’ve heard it all before somewhere.
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
So let’s start with the good faith interpretation, as furry is a subculture/hobby, so we’ll replace it with something similar:
For the record, I don’t “hate” Marvel fans, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a Marvel fan, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
Kind of a weird statement, as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else, but not the weirdest thing to say by any means. But, knowing the history of the internet in this regard, let’s take your statement and change it to represent what the anti-furry sentiment actually is:
For the record, I don’t “hate” gay people, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re gay, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
That’s right, the furry hatred was thinly veiled bigotry all along. There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days. It’s been a longstanding thing for hating furries to be “cool” because it was an easy way for bigots to hate minorities openly. Furries have major minority populations in the fandom (I think like twice the size compared to the world? Probably even higher), and so hating on furries was an easy way to hate on minorities - especially LGBT people as the fandom is commonly connected to the LGBT community in the cultural zeitgeist. So when they said that the OP isn’t going to win, I believe it’s in relation to that history - especially the whole “it’s cool to hate furries” thing that still seems to pop up amongst young kids even today.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I neither hate nor judge them, but all the yiff shit around here grosses me out, block it at every occasion.
Pissmidget@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed. I just block the stuff I’m not interested in viewing in my feed and move on with my day.
There are so many better things to reserve my ire for that someone posting their softcore fursona doesn’t make the cut, sorry to say.
If you’re gonna hate, hate productively. Now I’m off to judge someone who pronounces it jif and not gif, should the opportunity present itself.
Slotos@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
You pronounce it yiff, obviously.
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
yeah that’s normal you’re fine
octoham@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“i don’t hate them, but the degenerate things they do grosses me out” like this aint even hidden, imagine saying this about any other marginalized group
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
any other marginalized group
Lmao furry lives matter!
octoham@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
they are a particularly disliked and misunderstood group, right wingers have already been labeling them as “delusional degenerates” and lots of ppl just constantly shit on them just for enjoying aj unconventional hobby
papalonian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you not judging them as “gross”?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gross to me personally, yes.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Hate? I dont think its hate to be ambivalent.
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
ambivalence isn’t when you write the opinions of an entire group of people off because they’re weird
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Tru. I take it back.
thedruid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Its 2025 and some idiot ignores people bssed on some inscrutable social cue as well
Just not smart.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Bro thinks this is 2014 frfr
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
furry hate in 2005 was 100% homophobia lol it’s never really gone away either. it’s largely that nowadays too. it’s a way to hate queer people without outwardly hating queer people. they think we don’t see it. it’s also just dumb as hell and a waste of your one life spend any amount of time literally hating people for a hobby that involves playing pretend and using their imagination. oh no, the horror, they can access something you can’t anymore.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I think it’s the drug-fuelled sex parties that weirds people out.
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
yeah if you’re a loser
lena@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
You just made that up but okay. And you can’t put a whole group of people together and be like “yep they’re all drug addicts having sex parties.” That’s how racism works.
Doxin@pawb.social 1 week ago
Like there’s less sex at tupperware conventions. Humans are horny a/f, no matter which subgroup you pick.
Soulg@ani.social 3 weeks ago
You know not every furry is gay lol
chosensilence@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
yes, i am aware. i’m a furry.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Furry hate in 2005 was from furry friday posts. I still have a bunch of memes saved from both sides of those flame wars.