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It’s funny because I used to hate them them, then like them, and now I guess I fall somewhere in the ranks of “furry”.

The way I see it, is that for the longest time, the complete majority of furries were very much so the stereotype everyone sees them as. Literally creepy, mostly male, basement dwellers who lived on shitty archaic chat rooms collecting perverse erotic babs bunny fancomics well through the 80s and 90s. Pretty much this in every way:

But then DeviantArt launched in 2002, and like much of the internet at the time, opened the “furry fandom” to legions of annoying 12 year olds who now finally made it onto the internet. Really being part of that generation where high technical knowledge wasn’t a prequesite to use the internet and when cable broadband was proliferating like mad. Instead of stomping around in a backyard sandbox pretending to be a monster, they were doing so online - with other kids.

Those 12 year olds made dog characters with shitty scene accesories and conversed with other 12 year olds who did the same. They grew up building huge networks of friends, in and off line, and discovered there was a name for this PLAY PRETEND they were doing.

Now all those 12 year olds have grown up and are in their late teens and early to mid 20s. They are otherwise normal, attractive, sociable people, but CONCEAL THEIR POWER LEVEL until they goto cons. At cons (read: furry, anime, comic conventions) they go apeshit because here’s where they see all the other likeminded people they’ve known forever. So cons transformed into an awkward place for caricatures like the above to pick up perverted comics and otherwise duck out of the public eye, to becoming a sort of indoor burning man or whatever.

Parties and creepers have been and are still present at cons, but the emphasis has shifted in favour of the newer generation. Cons now feature shit like floor wars (street dance fighting competitions) and hotel party floors where the carpets are lined with plastic for the weekend as every suite on that floor opens up to being separate themed parties with free booze. Essentially bar hopping for free but travel’s been reduced to crossing over to the next room over.