That’s some good bait, right there.
It’s an interesting source of data. This post currently has 508 upvotes and 148 downvotes so I guess about 22.5% of lemmy users like anime.
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You’re truly the master baiter
Thank you for showing us how to master bait 🙏🙏🙏 visual learner btw
Bait for what? I don’t get it
I think you might be surprised how round the diagram is of specialists, weebs, and furries is.
Unless the specialists are scientists, most of us present like normies
Some of the best advice on cryptography comes from a site full of furry illustrations. A good chunk of infosec community intersects with a furry community.
But hey, you do you.
Woawsers, one terminally online group deadass interacts heartily with another terminally online group???
How does this happen??
How could one kid about such a pairing???
personally i think its the tism (im an autistic software engineer who also runs into both groups online constantly, dont kill me)
maybe you got the tism as well
Yup, doesn’t mean I won’t meme about it :)
You must be very fun at parties
Very perceptive, yes, a skill helped by my ability to take teasing as jokes rather than rectal insertions!
Stick: Removed from ass
Party: Time
Bro I don’t even like anime, I’ve just grown out of the “mock someone for the thing they like” thing.
it’s 2025 and people still pretend to hate furries lol
Bro thinks this is 2014 frfr
furry hate in 2005 was 100% homophobia lol it’s never really gone away either. it’s largely that nowadays too. it’s a way to hate queer people without outwardly hating queer people. they think we don’t see it. it’s also just dumb as hell and a waste of your one life to spend any amount of time literally hating people for a hobby that involves playing pretend and using their imagination. oh no, the horror, they can access something you can’t anymore.
You know not every furry is gay lol
yes, i am aware. i’m a furry.
Furry hate in 2005 was from furry friday posts. I still have a bunch of memes saved from both sides of those flame wars.
I think it’s the drug-fuelled sex parties that weirds people out.
yeah if you’re a loser
🤷♂️
You just made that up but okay. And you can’t put a whole group of people together and be like “yep they’re all drug addicts having sex parties.” That’s how racism works.
“Racist.” Fuck off, you chose to be a furry.
Every furry I’ve known personally has participated in these.
Clean up your scene and people won’t associate that with you.
I’m sorry, the furry president hasn’t been aware of what’s going on, but I’ve sent him an email and it will be dealt with shortly.
Furries are people that like anthropomorphic animals. I’m not responsible for what others do.
Also what’s wrong with sex and drugs?
Nothing as far as I’m concerned. It’s the fur suit orgy that makes it weird.
Every furry I’ve known personally has participated in these.
Source: trust me bro
Until I see some statistics, I don’t believe you one bit. Also, who cares what they do in their spare time? You are very controlling, just mind your own business please.
you chose to be a furry.
I’m not a furry
I neither hate nor judge them, but all the yiff shit around here grosses me out, block it at every occasion.
Agreed. I just block the stuff I’m not interested in viewing in my feed and move on with my day.
There are so many better things to reserve my ire for that someone posting their softcore fursona doesn’t make the cut, sorry to say.
If you’re gonna hate, hate productively. Now I’m off to judge someone who pronounces it jif and not gif, should the opportunity present itself.
You pronounce it yiff, obviously.
yeah that’s normal you’re fine
Are you not judging them as “gross”?
Gross to me personally, yes.
“i don’t hate them, but the degenerate things they do grosses me out” like this aint even hidden, imagine saying this about any other marginalized group
any other marginalized group
Lmao furry lives matter!
they are a particularly disliked and misunderstood group, right wingers have already been labeling them as “delusional degenerates” and lots of ppl just constantly shit on them just for enjoying an unconventional hobby
Its 2025 and some idiot ignores people bssed on some inscrutable social cue as well
Just not smart.
Hate? I dont think its hate to be ambivalent.
ambivalence isn’t when you write the opinions of an entire group of people off because they’re weird
Tru. I take it back.
pretend
dude lol it’s fine. it’s a hobby. you know it, i know it, everyone knows it. zoomers are fine with furries, alpha even more so. you’re not going to win this just stop. it’s so dumb.
zoomers are fine with furries, alpha even more so. you’re not going to win this just stop.
Who’s trying to win anything? Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
For the record, you sound exactly like the type of person a furry wouldn’t ever want to befriend so worry not, bud
I mean that’s ok lol. I have a small number of former and current friends that are or were furries, they wear their foxtail keychain and have their drawings as their phone background and we go about our business. At my college, I had two classes with someone who was not so subtle, and would somehow always find a way to talk about their fursona… that’s their business, I don’t hate them for doing it, but they’re not the kinda person I wanna hang out with.
If that makes me a bigot I’m generally not a very good one.
I don’t like furries
WELL FURRIES DON’T LIKE YOU
Like yeah okay? lol
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
weird that you’re focusing on minors when i mentioned two generations
if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along
most furries are normal about their hobby is the overall point here, and one that i have seen spread like wildfire online the last 5 or so years. i have seen furry posts on TikTok receive a ton of attention and all the comments are some variation of “why did people hate furries?” or “furries seem cool.” it might be cringey but being cringe is not embarrassing anymore. catch up. it’s freeing.
I was gonna write a response to this but it was pretty much just a rephrase of my other response. tl;dr I don’t hate furries as mentioned and idc if you’re amongst the “normal about their hobby” crowd but in more than one instance I’ve encountered people very not normal about their hobby and I choose not to associate with them. 🤷🏾♂️
in more than one instance I’ve encountered people very not normal about their hobby and I choose not to associate with them. 🤷🏾♂️
To be fair, there are people like this, probably also on these forums, about almost every hobby. Gun nuts, programmers, “sweaty” card/board/video gamers, etc.
i would also not associate with them, you’re good.
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
Holy shit, is Gen Z the new Millennials? Gen Z is commonly agreed to be the generation born between roughly 1995 and 2012, meaning that the oldest of them would be 30.
Existential crisis aside, my real point is that I’ve been around the internet a long time - long enough to have seen the start of hate against furries - and I’d like to take your second part and play with it in that context because I’ve heard it all before somewhere.
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
So let’s start with the good faith interpretation, as furry is a subculture/hobby, so we’ll replace it with something similar:
For the record, I don’t “hate” Marvel fans, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a Marvel fan, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
Kind of a weird statement, as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else, but not the weirdest thing to say by any means. But, knowing the history of the internet in this regard, let’s take your statement and change it to represent what the anti-furry sentiment actually is:
For the record, I don’t “hate” gay people, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re gay, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
That’s right, the furry hatred was thinly veiled bigotry all along. There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days. It’s been a longstanding thing for hating furries to be “cool” because it was an easy way for bigots to hate minorities openly. Furries have major minority populations in the fandom (I think like twice the size compared to the world? Probably even higher), and so hating on furries was an easy way to hate on minorities - especially LGBT people as the fandom is commonly connected to the LGBT community in the cultural zeitgeist. So when they said that the OP isn’t going to win, I believe it’s in relation to that history - especially the whole “it’s cool to hate furries” thing that still seems to pop up amongst young kids even today.
There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days
Dude, that was a 4chan thing. It wasn’t about “bigotry.” Everything had fag added to the end of it. Newfag, oldfag, furfag, gamerfag… hell, I even saw gayfag thrown around a few times, though I’m pretty sure those were fully ironic since only a dolt wouldn’t realize the idiocy of it.
And 4chan was filled with bigots. It was a major part of the alt-right pipeline that put America where it is today. Just because it was used ironically doesn’t mean that it wasn’t also used seriously. There’s a whole essay on the furry hate that revolves more around the damage done by that one CSI episode (and I’m pretty sure another similar show a few years later) that characterized furries as sexual deviants than anything else, but the use of the 4chan furfag moniker was also a part of it, and that spread outside of 4chan.
4chan for its part, though, really proved the saying “say something ironically enough times and eventually you start saying it unironically.” Although that’s less related to the furry thing and more to the whole edgy teenagers posting racist jokes growing up to scream about Jewish space lasers creating climate change.
My favorite Tshirt says, “Be Gay. Do Crimes.”
I love the LGBTQ community and am often mistakenly assumed to be a part of it, to which I take zero offense (and usually don’t bother correcting).
People that make every aspect of their personality revolve around being gay annoy me and I usually don’t associate with them.
People that make every aspect of their personality revolve around being a furry annoy me and I usually don’t associate with them.
as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else
Precisely.
but not the weirdest thing to say by any means.
Yet multiple people are coming out to let me know that I’m homophobic, bigoted, etc.
Can we also just take a moment to acknowledge that we’re in the shit posting community?
My favorite Tshirt says, “Be Gay. Do Crimes”
Reeks of, “some of my best friends are black!”
I don’t really care what you think it sounds like. I let the people who actually know me and myself be the judge of my character. If you spent 45 seconds in the same room as me you’d feel pretty silly for implying my homophobia.
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Cop guns really are like “the call of the void” aren’t they? All I know is if I’m ever trapped in a Groundhog Day time loop, one of the first things I’m doing is grabbing a cop’s gun. I don’t want to grab it and shoot anyone with it. I just want to grab it and run off into the distance, cackling with glee like a madman.
Its a way of being
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Holy macaroni, the seething. Remember this thread next time Lemmy wants to pretend it’s better than Reddit.
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Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
You’re on the shitposting community. Unprompted bashing is the norm, you’re not supposed to have a meltdown about it.
How about a spinning skull gif?
I’m sorry, but if it isn’t a bronze age statue head or a girl in a bikini laying on the hood of a sports car, I assume this person doesn’t have the IQ sufficient for my wit and wisdom.
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Hmmmm… In that scene he was lying. He very much did care. So the meme is really saying that you do care about what people with anime profile pics say, but you just don’t want to admit it… 😆
Also I’d rather care about the opinion of anime addicts and furries that about the opinion of intolerant assholes.
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chat can we not just post thinly veiled bigotry? is respecting other’s interests too hard now?
This guy has been hating on furries for no reason for a long time now. In fact I feel vindicated in one of my previous comments made at this guy
Thinly veiled bigotry
I wasn’t aware you could be bigoted against just furries, but if so, this is fully unveiled, get it right!
I see we’re picking and choosing which shit posts we take seriously here
As a wise man once said:
fake taking it serious for the meme
Can you blame them? It’s become extremely hard to differentiate between someone being an ass and someone hidding hate in a joke.
I think the post is meh at most but most of us are on edge… For good reasons.
Ohh look who cares SO MUCH what other people’s avatars look like
Imagine the flak you get looking as gay as a rainbow online, SMH my head
ad hominem
as someone who’s barely watched any anime and doesn’t really get furries at all… uh, what. of all the things people can be into, these are the some of least relevant to one’s opinions.
someone who has “AI” “art” as pfp? someone who has a flag as their pfp? someone with greek statue or roman soldier as pfp? tell you so much about the person and how fucking worthless their opinions must be. furries? they’re just into anthropomorphic animals for some reason dude, i don’t care.
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“it’s a prank bro” in the year of our lord 2025? do better
I know it’s crazy to imagine people being silly online, but it’s still possible buddy :D
it’s also possible for people to be dumb online, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to try to put a stop to it.
Thanks for giving an example
it’s just a meme bro… i was memeing! you can’t say it’s stupid if i say i was memeing!
Turns out, i was also memeing! How’s abput that? Boom, memeinception
doesn’t really get furries at all…
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Guy dressed as a giant wolf, doing backflips and juicing up the crowd at a high school football game: Based, Cool, Epic Bacon
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Guy dressed as a giant wolf, doing backflips and juicing up a crowd at a high school hentai club event: This I have a problem with
🤔 Maybe check yourself.
speaking of checking, maybe check my comment again and point to me where i said i have a problem with it.
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