I think he understands the problem considering he mentioned his 200k income at the start of the post.
Fur suits are expensive so hes the perfect money source :D
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"can I be your fast breeder reactor?"
😂
Is Lemmy a furry?
I think there's a large population only because this is inherently niche. And niche things attract niche interest groups in larger quantities.
TLDR FUR FREAK GALORE
Or the same group of people who were going to be furries (predominately a thing developed on the internet) were going to first be deliberate internet users who then naturally discover lemmy.
Yes.
Tumblr is the crucible in which the furries were spawned. When you think about it Tumblr was the 4chan for women/people who write fan fiction. Wild West vibe.
When Pixar animated that lion on its back with fuck me eyes its been downhill since. They employed the people who humped their stuffed animals and werent told to stop.
Jokes aside I like seeing the different groups that share the similarity of being irritated by centrally controlled forums/ privacy on Lemmy. My kind of weirdos (for the most part)
I looked it up and the first convention was in 1989
Furries have been on the Internet much longer than tumblr has existed. Perhaps even longer than the world wide web has existed: I know of at least one group that was on IRC in the 90s
They were big on usenet groups and loved talking about 90s children cartoons. Alt.tv.animaniacs and alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom were notable and are still archived and browsable, though if you’re using something like Google groups you have to either search for key terms or be ready to flip past the 25+ years of spam posts that have been made since the groups were active in the 90s
https://www.animaniacs.info/ata/ - an old school poster still runs a faq on the animaniacs one. The person hosting this animaniacs site has to be 50-60+ years old. Note that another section of the site shows the show had a reference to adults obsessively documenting the show: https://www.animaniacs.info/pppgalf/ which was because the network was very much aware of them because they were sending cease and desists over erotic content like fanfic and ftps with porn
https://antifandom.com/tinytoons/wiki/The_World%27s_Biggest_Tiny_Toon_Fan tiny toons also had a similar reference, apparently, because of similar problems including tress macneille getting threatening letters and rule34 of her character mailed to her (though in those days it was just called fanart)
Like most things it seems like the majority of the group was probably fine, just super into a cartoon, and a few bad actors crossed the line which allowed the whole group to be painted as dangerous obsessive freaks. But back in the early 2000s this was one of the bigger examples of “furries are creeps” style punching down that was everywhere on the internet (and pretty much still is tbf)
Yup. That IRC group was in fact themed for one of those 90s cartoons (trying not to dox them too hard, for all I know they are still active. I know of them through a friend I've known since middle school, who doesn't talk much about the whole furry thing these days)
I'm sure it's been around longer, but if you're going to give anyone credit, it's gotta be Disney.
Here's a NSFW 1970s poster for you that doesn't look very different from today's. https://ebay.us/m/lC8tOr
A friend has made a compelling case that furries are a key indicator species in web communities. If the community hosts furries, it means things are going on there, if it doesn't host furries it's probably not worth your time.
The hacker known as Lemmy?
Any negative comments about their weirdness will not be met kindly here.
I'm not pro-furry, and it's clear that this statement on its own is sufficient advice — largely, regardless of its subject.
(fuck fascists, tankies, trolls, MAGAts, hexbear, ml, etc., though)
Ooh, blanket "fuck communists"? We really are gearing up for another world war.
When people started first migrating from reddit there was a TON of furry porn.
How does he know who's is a furry and who isn't at a party? Are they always dressed up?
In a million years, I never would have guessed that this was an issue.
Tell em you work for Boeing.
I think I’ve only ever met 2 furries in my entire life. I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common. Then again, I’m not a nuclear engineer. Maybe radiation attracts furries?
I don't know where this person is that furries are so common.
Seattle.
I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common.
Idk maybe he’s at a furry convention?
This is one of those things that might not always be immediately obvious if you’re not plugged into that specific community.
I’ve never met a furry either. But completely by chance, I found out that my city of 160.000 people has a group who does regular furry walks. Basically, they’ll do a walk and meet the public once a month. I had no freaking clue we had that here. It wasn’t a thing I was looking for and never ran into. It was completely by chance that I read an article about it.
So uh, furries are probably closer than you think is my point 😀
Definitely a Seattle issue. We have a queer furry cidery—the first one in the US!
A building turning furries into cider? And people are happy about this?! I mean, we in he US will give miles of leeway to anyone if they check one “minority” box.
Which one? Over by cap hill?
Is it for queer or furry or queer furries.
"An nuclear engineer"? That's suspicious grammar for a nuclear engineer.
Furries are all cyber security engineers so start each conversation with your favorite windows update so far.
Maybe tell them you're a taxidermist? Although that might be a different kind of turn on.
He should tell them he is a cyber security chad expert. That will stop them!
Whatever just don't tell Lemmy you're a landlord
Oh brother. I'm not a landlord any more but if I was I'm sure I'd be petrified
Like...has nuclear engineering been furrified? Is there an abnormally large furry bloc within the nuclear engineering community? IS SOMEONE BUILDING FUR SUIT RADIATION SUITS?
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