• Solivine@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    As far as I know being a furry isn’t about sexual attraction to animals, that’s a misunderstanding on your part I’m pretty sure.

    • Jaeger@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      Pretty much. Generally speaking furries are fans of anthropomorphic characters, which inherently require a human component.

      A lot of the hate the furry fandom gets is carryover from it being a very LGBT positive space in the early days of the internet, when that was a significantly less popular opinion to have. This led to a lot of false rumors (and one really inaccurate csi episode) getting spread around.

      This video does a decent dive into the history of the whole thing. Basically it started from larger animation studios wanting to censor artists, leading to a bunch of artists getting together and putting all their weird stuff in one place.