We don’t exactly force other people to use one, and it doesn’t hurt anyone for us to, so why should we care?
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Furries apparently do not understand why we dislike fursonas.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who cares about fursonas??
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s gross, like when someone puts big titty anime girls on a tech blog, it’s off putting to anyone who doesn’t share the fetish.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
It’d only be a fetish to the people who only like furries for the porn they make and don’t have an interest in the rest of the subculture that it comes from, which probably isn’t the sort of person to use a fursona to represent themselves on a tech blog in the first place.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It would be a lot easier to engage with the subculture from the outside if the porn wasn’t so prevalent or up-front as it is/had been in the past, and if the weirdest/most socially maladjusted members of the culture didn’t tend to be the most attention grabbing (but that’s an issue with almost every group online though).
If you’re up for it, I’d love to be pointed at some good examples of the subculture outside of the fetish/kink stuff.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like you’re in denial of liking fursonas/feeling they are sexual 😁
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s like telling a woman she must be a closet lesbian because she doesn’t want to see boobs everywhere.
dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
what exactly was sexual about an animal cartoon? doesn’t seem much different from what I grew up seeing on cartoon network.
I know that side exists, but none of it was on display here
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
What is this, 2003? Furries run the internet.
besselj@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Whole IT teams would crumble without furries
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
We’re fucked if a plane headed to Anthrocon ever crashes.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Fursonas are pure narcissism. Imagine if non-furries acted like furries: you open someone’s social media and if every pic they upload is commissioned artwork of their (human) selves. You walk into their home and the walls are covered in self-portraits. You chat with them and they reply with ‘stickers’ of pictures of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions. Pure narcissism.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ever heard of Bitmoji? Or Apple’s Genmoji thing? People do create stickers of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions, it’s fairly popular… And most of Instagram is people posting thirst traps and selfies. Not sure why you’re singling out furries here…
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Instagram?
domdanial@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
This is also selection bias, the furries that dont upload their art every day and make it their profile pic aren’t seen, only the ones that do.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Have you seen youtuber merch?
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
I don’t even want to understand shitheads like you. Stay away.
besselj@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m much more accepting of fursonas than plagairism machines that can’t be trusted to give accurate information.