Why are some many people role playing as animals?

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  UPDATE: can't help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals

  I think you'll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is "animal roleplay" to you? Where are you seeing it being done?

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• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Imma guess, like most things it seems, they always have been, we just see it more thanks to the internet.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is an interesting point and makes me wonder: are there historical accounts of furries in history? I guess you could count things like werewolf stories, maybe, but that seems like a stretch…? I get the feeling I’m describing an existing field of study and hope there’s something to read about it?

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    • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Egyptians and native Americans dressed up as animals… Or maybe I’m very uneducated and this racist.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.

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  • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No. When i was growing up, never saw this ever and the internet was still around. This is something else

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    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Dunno how old you are, but we got internet when I was about ten years old and lemme tell you it’s always been there.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There's been furry content on the Internet since before the World Wide Web was invented.

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    • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fredryk phox disagrees

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• chosensilence@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  …? you mean us furries? why are there so many furries? lol

  if so, the human fascination with animals is ancient. over time we began attributing human traits to their behaviors and started connecting to them on personal and spiritual levels. then when we started making art we depicting those anthropomorphic animals on cave walls.

  furries simply inhabit a persona (fursona) to express themselves behind the security of the confidence being that character gives them. a lot of us feel like our fursona is an ideal representation of ourselves. it helps us connect to our own personhood, strangely.

  it’s also fun and can be sexy if ya want.

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  • stinerman@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think it is interesting that relatively recently it became possible for furries to wear suits that allow them to express themselves in this matter. How many people throughout human history wished to be able to do this, but couldn’t because the “technology” simply wasn’t there.

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    • chosensilence@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      i agree heh. i’m glad i’m a furry during a good time to be one. also, with more tech we get more advanced suits and species like protogens can exist IRL. there’s a lot of suit makers too, so there’s tons of unique styles. it’s neat.

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• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m a squirrel… no further questions

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Being savvy enough to be on the Internet must mean you have a helluva nut collection!

    You buy special nuts from around the globe?

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    • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure, I “buy” them

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• SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you’re not talking about furries, then you’re gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    OH, are they maybe talking about all of the inflatable animal costumes worn by protesters in the US? There’ve been a lot of pictures of that recently due to the No Kings protest over the weekend.

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    • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Possible. I’d hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.

      OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.

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• WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably because humanity has become so pathetic. /S

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  • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think humanity is pathetic. What makes you say that?

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    • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      [gestures broadly at everything]

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    • dbx12@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s true, humans fighting humans just to reclaim borders from some point in the history. A country cheers on autocratic behavior of their leader. The planet itself is dying because humanity consumes more resources to than it can restore. The universe would do us a favor if the heat death happens sooner than prognosed.

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅

  The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We've been imagining what it's like to not be human for as long as we've been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.

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  • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So a sculpture depicting a feline standing on it’s hind legs which they do when reaching up a tree is a furry to you?

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did you actually look at the image of the sculpture? It's not reaching up. It's just standing.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because the internet is full of furries. Which isn’t a bad thing it’s just people are judgemental as fuck and think being a furries is childish.

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  • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s not explaining why they are doing it

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because they can is a perfectly adequate reason.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because we find it enjoyable; what more reason does anyone need to engage in an activity?

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• dwemthy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are you not an animal? Be you vegetable or mineral?

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Appropriate answer: Escapism.

  Lemmy answer: people want to fuck animals.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m going to guess that it’s because most animals spend their days eating, sleeping, and fucking. Some of them don’t even “raise” their kids. They don’t have the same responsibilities that humans do. Animals are assumed to be innocent. It’s an idealized life.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, most role playing will be as other humans, and we are animals. So that explains most.

  After that I feel it’s mostly mammals. I guess it’s easier the more similar the animal?

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• toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are you spending lots of time in VR chat roleplay servers?

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are they? Im partial to elven or half elven druids.

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• Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where?

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• loomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I guess frogs are protesting against ICE. Hope this helps

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• kip@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one on the internet. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches

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• Satellaview@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It lets you view modern life from outside.

  Which of the things we do every day are truly necessary? When you remove something or add another, what happens to the greater shape of society? What do our relationships to each other look like without cars, without jobs, without money? What might take their place?

  What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean to be human? What’s the shape of the gap between those two things?

  I find it philosophically entertaining.

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• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sometimes I roleplay as a human animal.

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• celeste@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You mean as animals, instead of humans with animal features? I don't know what specifically you're talking about, but usually it springs from a desire to play with traits the animals are assumed to have. The less they're playing at being a human with fur or echolocation or whatever, the more it's about a desire to disconnect from human responsibilities and worries.

  Some people who have been abused in a way that resembles how humans treat animals (assumption of stupidity, obedience required with the assumption you're incapable of understanding why you need to do things, etc) will play at it when they're free of it as a way to process the shitty way they were treated in a way they can control.

  But it mostly seems to stem from a desire to not think about human concerns for a while, and just exist in your body as we assume animals do.

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