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Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

That Little Demon posted:

also the rule that sagas have to be "funny"

This site has had, literally, 10 times more pedophiles, rapists, and murderers than any other social media site combined. But I'm not supposed to talk about that? It makes you "feel bad"? Lmfao

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That Little Demon
Dec 3, 2020
Ask me about shitposting in SAD to get the attention my parents never gave me
not to mention that "funny" is up to, ahem, the mods discretion lol

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

If the truth makes you "feel bad" it's time to back the gently caress up and accept reality

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
Seriously why the gently caress has hedrigall not been banned yet. Who is reading his posts and going "yes I definitely want to hear more from this absolute freak"

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
guy spilling out of his jeans like a superfund site trying to explain that it's not fun to talk about all the times him and his friends hosed up really badly in public

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

ArfJason posted:

id rather see him featured in the obituaries

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I've been aiming to stay as hands off with what can or can not be talked about as much as possible.

I am interested in reducing the time restriction as much as possible. It is intended to keep people from running here to discuss whatever random drama is going on, which might be better expressed with a rephrasing.

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

Roth posted:

I've been aiming to stay as hands off with what can or can not be talked about as much as possible.

I am interested in reducing the time restriction as much as possible. It is intended to keep people from running here to discuss whatever random drama is going on, which might be better expressed with a rephrasing.

well as long as it no longer makes you feel icky in the tummy.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I have Xanax for my anxiety don't worry :v:

I'm not sure where the "No unfunny sagas" thing is coming from? I, at least, don't really care if people talk about mods getting exposed as pedos and what not. Is it the doomerism rule that Rhino posted? I interpreted it as a general 'stfu about politics' rule not that we couldn't talk about the serious poo poo that has happened on this forum.

Peachfart
Jan 21, 2017

If they made it like a month delay, that would be far less dumb.

And the less people whining about politics over all of SA, the better.

Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007

everything is politics :eng101:

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Shifty Nipples posted:

everything is politics :eng101:

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

Roth posted:

I have Xanax for my anxiety don't worry :v:

I'm not sure where the "No unfunny sagas" thing is coming from? I, at least, don't really care if people talk about mods getting exposed as pedos and what not. Is it the doomerism rule that Rhino posted? I interpreted it as a general 'stfu about politics' rule not that we couldn't talk about the serious poo poo that has happened on this forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WjozwcRqI&t=14s

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

CelticPredator posted:

I hated anime until I watched an anime and now I’m willing to try some more animes.

But slowly please. I’m still in my shonen easy phase lol

watch rideback, op

Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007


lol

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

Hedrigall posted:

I'm actually only into Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith in lion form now

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
Retroactively baptizing your dead ancestors and assigning them fursonas so they can get into furry mormon heaven.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
This feels apt

Ask me about being a bitter, angry former furry.

quote:

So, where to begin? I'm Camrath, and up until about a year ago I used to be a furry. I'm nearly 34 now- I joined the fandom in 1999, about a week or so after my 18th birthday. So I spent basically the entirety of my adult life involved to a greater or lesser extent in this hosed up fandom, from what was very much its genesis as an organised scene in the UK up until its current colossal (and horrifying) state. Along the way I've had good times (some), bad times (many) and a lot of genuinely WTF moments that still make my mind boggle a bit.

What's my purpose in this thread? Well, there are several. First of all, simply to entertain. Secondly, to inform a bit- while a lot of the stories about the furry fandom have elements of truth to them, there's also a lot of myth and propaganda attached. And often the truth in itself is stranger than fiction. Thirdly (and this is something that I'll touch on more in a later section), it's somewhat therapeutic to me to pour out some of the bile that's built up in me over my entire adult life, and frankly it helps reinforce in my own mind that getting the hell away from it all finally was very much the right decision for me to make.

Before I begin properly, I'd like to make a few requests if I may.

1. Please take this thread in the spirit in which it's offered. Yes, the fandom is hosed up. Yes, I was part of it. I'm not here to defend it in any way, shape or form, but at the same point I will try and counter any false beliefs people have about it. I'd sooner people hate it for real reasons than just because of internet tribalism.

2. Please, no internet detectivery or contacting anyone involved. While I'm outside of the fandom now, I do still have friends who are involved and I don't want to see them hurt. I'll be using furry pseudonyms rather than RL names, but I will also be posting some pictures and if you recognise someone then for Christ’s sake don't start harassing them IRL about it.

3. Try and be constructive- I'd like to be able to share hosed up stories and laugh along with you all at the weird poo poo that I used to be involved in. Page after page of 'gently caress u furry human being' or whatever will only serve to shut down my interest in providing what should be some pretty funny, awful, messed up poo poo for you guys.

quote:

You're factually off base on a few different areas here, and your tone is needlessly aggressive- however. Firstly, it's neither about pretending to be an animal per-se, or about wanting to gently caress them (though there are zoophiles/petfuckers/animal rapists in furry, they're at most a small minority. And one that I'd happily see lined up and shot). It's more akin to say, cosplay or performance art for most participants. With a touch of escapism/roleplay/wish fulfillment attached. The sexual aspect is I think more a result of a shitload of poorly socialised or socially retarded nerds getting together in a judgement-free community, same as the anime or brony fandoms.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I don't know what to say to that but it's funny to be like it's not a sex thing we're just all retarded. And also everything you've ever seen about it unless you're deeply into this totally non sexual thing for, in his own words, socially retarded people, is sex stuff. Lol

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









you're factually off base in a few different areas here

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I only mind furries when they start shoving how horny they are for Robin Hood and Judy Hopps in my face.

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I knew a dude in furry fandom who knew Camrath, and you will no doubt be shocked to hear that, no, it was actually a sex thing. (Sadly, I don't remember any stories besides "he's full of poo poo in that SA thread and also a sex pest on a MUSH.")

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
making your personal identity revolve around what you get a boner to is really weird

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Spanish Manlove posted:

making your personal identity revolve around what you get a boner to is really weird

even worse when they try to say it's the same as being queer so im a bigot for not wanting to know what people jack off to or what non-elucidian relationship dynamic they have at this particular moment

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

Furries overall get poo poo on really bad but that's mostly because the only people who Talk About Being Furries Online are the people who are real weird about it. I don't give a poo poo what you're into, sexual or not, just don't be weird in public

Like, dude who is really into motorcycles: fine
Due who only talks about being really into motorcycles: exhausting

It's not even that it's gross or weird or whatever just like we're trying to have a conversation here

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

more falafel please posted:

Furries overall get poo poo on really bad but that's mostly because the only people who Talk About Being Furries Online are the people who are real weird about it. I don't give a poo poo what you're into, sexual or not, just don't be weird in public

Like, dude who is really into motorcycles: fine
Due who only talks about being really into motorcycles: exhausting

It's not even that it's gross or weird or whatever just like we're trying to have a conversation here

Dude who's into motorcylces: fine
Dude who's really really into motorcycles and devotes their whole existence to motorcycles: kinda weird but fine
Dude who wants to gently caress their motorcycle: cringe

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

the people who made DALLE2 had to ban all furry terms because 100% of them were attempts to make porn

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

Spanish Manlove posted:

Dude who's into motorcylces: fine
Dude who's really really into motorcycles and devotes their whole existence to motorcycles: kinda weird but fine
Dude who wants to gently caress their motorcycle: cringe

Dude who wants to gently caress their motorcycle: cringe but whatever, who cares, it's your motorcycle
Dude who posts on forums that are not about motorcycle loving about how he wants to gently caress his motorcycle, exclusively: exhausting

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

Most people who want to gently caress their motorcycle don't make it my problem, to which I say go with god

some plague rats
Jun 5, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Spanish Manlove posted:

Dude who's into motorcylces: fine
Dude who's really really into motorcycles and devotes their whole existence to motorcycles: kinda weird but fine
Dude who wants to gently caress their motorcycle: cringe

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

more falafel please posted:

Dude who wants to gently caress their motorcycle: cringe but whatever, who cares, it's your motorcycle
Dude who posts on forums that are not about motorcycle loving about how he wants to gently caress his motorcycle, exclusively: exhausting

funnily enough 'exhausting' is also their term for it

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Zetsubou-san posted:

funnily enough 'exhausting' is also their term for it

Lmao

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

Zetsubou-san posted:

funnily enough 'exhausting' is also their term for it

lol

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Don't gently caress the bike hot

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

some plague rats posted:

Seriously why the gently caress has hedrigall not been banned yet. Who is reading his posts and going "yes I definitely want to hear more from this absolute freak"



the only possible answer. it distracts from his illegal dogfighting ring

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

some plague rats posted:

Seriously why the gently caress has hedrigall not been banned yet. Who is reading his posts and going "yes I definitely want to hear more from this absolute freak"

a number of mods have not gotten the memo that lowtax gave himself a 5.7mm exit strategy and that they can go back to banning people now that rereg fees no longer go to his box wine and percocet habit

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Larry Parrish posted:

even worse when they try to say it's the same as being queer so im a bigot for not wanting to know what people jack off to or what non-elucidian relationship dynamic they have at this particular moment

Furries have done more to fight against fascism online than anyone on this website and quite good at pwning blizzard loving chuds too, so maybe tone it down, mkay?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
the problem is a lot of grey forum mods are afraid of touching their buttons because they don't engage their frontal lobe when using them and so when a dumber one gets yelled at or made fun of for a bad call they decide that the safer option is to not use them. or at least that's the charitable take since for some reason there's plenty of ways to get instantly banned but talking about what you jack off to constantly isn't one of them somehow. i leave it up to the reader to decide why they continue to make exceptions for unwanted freaks

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Furries have done more to fight against fascism online than anyone on this website and quite good at pwning blizzard loving chuds too, so maybe tone it down, mkay?

Fighting fascism


ONLINE!

Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Furries have done more to fight against fascism online than anyone on this website and quite good at pwning blizzard loving chuds too, so maybe tone it down, mkay?

the nazifurs... so easily forgotten

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Dongicus posted:

the nazifurs... so easily forgotten

read this in the dark souls intro voice

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