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How do you feel about furries?  

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  1. 1. How do you feel about furries?

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I'm not a furry and I had no idea there was so much hate between these two fandoms, I even thought they got along with each other until now.

 

There seems to be a lot of hate between both of them and I would like to know why. Is it because we have something that they don't?

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i have never before seen any type of anti-brony/furry art and i have never heard anypony say anything bad about them but i would like to just to have another opinion on this subject

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i have never before seen any type of anti-brony/furry art and i have never heard anypony say anything bad about them but i would like to just to have another opinion on this subject

 

I have never seen any ideals and/or demonstrations on any anti-material upon the brony fandom between the furry fandom. If such activity should happen, my opinion is correct. Judging others based upon their liking, just to gain dominance for the other. Typical.

 

Also, if you want an opinion... check out my previous post on this topic. It might help.

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Let's get to the real question here! Something that means even more than this foolish argument!

 

WHY IS THE TOPIC NAME WRONG! It's "Why" do furries hate bronies. Not "What" Shame on everyone who hasn't seen this mistake!

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Let's get to the real question here! Something that means even more than this foolish argument!

 

WHY IS THE TOPIC NAME WRONG! It's "Why" do furries hate bronies. Not "What" Shame on everyone who hasn't seen this mistake!

 

LOL, I've seen this. I just never said anything about it, just for the lolz. But for the matter, yes, I can agree on your point.

 

Whoever started this topic, fix that error right away!

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I have a friend who's a furry and she completely detests bronies. She has never told me why either. Jealousy? Thinking we copied them? More attention in media? I just can't understand since both furries and bronies are a lot similar then they seem.

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Personally for me the annoyance comes in how these pony fans interject their hobby into so many things. There is also this feeling of how “Bronies” seem to demand you respect their love of My Little Ponies. I love the band RUSH and the Venture Bros cartoon, but you don’t see me shoving it in everyone’s face the way Bronies tend to with their hobby of choice.

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Well, to me this seems like the war between Swedish Death Metal and Norwegian Black Metal... They're pretty much the same shit, it's just one party just gets more publicity than the other. The one that feels less mainstream and popular is the one that will most likely detest the other.

 

/)( Moshi >:3

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Last I checked, furries don't hate bronies. Maybe I'm missing some kind of bigger picture? I DO know that the people on the youtube video "Avast Your Ass" were raging because bronies were flooding that video since "Avast Fluttershy's Ass" came out.

 

Maybe it's another "BRONY FLOODING!" issue.

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I blame it on the fact that they make no effort to police their fandom. From what I've seen Bronies spend a lot of time running damage control on "unsavory aspects" of the fandom (no offense to anyone who is a clopper). A good public image never hurts.

 

Um... Bronies do far less than damage control. We don't police our fandom at ALL. On any given site, you'll see bronies spamming pony images in irrelevant areas, trying to convert people like Shiite jihadis, and roleplaying in a really annoying fashion (Id est, creating youtube accounts solely to roleplay in comment sections). Don't even START trying to say that we do any damage control on r34, because that is a sodding lie. I can name no less than 5 sites where pony r34 abounds in plenty.

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Um... Bronies do far less than damage control. We don't police our fandom at ALL. On any given site, you'll see bronies spamming pony images in irrelevant areas, trying to convert people like Shiite jihadis, and roleplaying in a really annoying fashion (Id est, creating youtube accounts solely to roleplay in comment sections). Don't even START trying to say that we do any damage control on r34, because that is a sodding lie. I can name no less than 5 sites where pony r34 abounds in plenty.

 

That's all true, but at least bronies try to have good PR, I've seen alot of furries with the "*bleep* them if they think I'm a freak" attitude, real whiny too. Bronies at least try to be nice people, if annoying at times.

 

No offense to furries, I kinda am one.

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That's all true, but at least bronies try to have good PR, I've seen alot of furries with the "*bleep* them if they think I'm a freak" attitude, real whiny too. Bronies at least try to be nice people, if annoying at times.

 

No offense to furries, I kinda am one.

 

Actually, some people within the furry fandom DO try to maintain good PR. Problem is, it is near impossible. You'd be surprised how hard camera crews actually try to get a scoop on whatever is the worst thing they can find in a convention, because that is what gets them ratings. I watched a few videos where a guy from Anthrocon (Might have been someone in charge) was explaining what lengths he goes to in trying to keep a good public image, as well as telling others at length how to avoid giving unwanted details or giving any details to certain not-so-good sources. Very interesting, to be honest.

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Actually, some people within the furry fandom DO try to maintain good PR. Problem is, it is near impossible. You'd be surprised how hard camera crews actually try to get a scoop on whatever is the worst thing they can find in a convention, because that is what gets them ratings. I watched a few videos where a guy from Anthrocon (Might have been someone in charge) was explaining what lengths he goes to in trying to keep a good public image, as well as telling others at length how to avoid giving unwanted details or giving any details to certain not-so-good sources. Very interesting, to be honest.

 

Maybe I just spent to long in the FurAffinity forums when I was bigger into the furry thing. Those people can be real plots at times.

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Maybe I just spent to long in the FurAffinity forums when I was bigger into the furry thing. Those people can be real plots at times.

 

FurAffinity is to furries like r/clopclop/ is to bronies. It's no better judging furries only by the yiffers than judging bronies only by the cloppers.

 

And besides, you think I haven't seen my fair share of creepy stuff in both fandoms? I used to go on Herpy, for goodness sake. About 5% of the gallery was SFW, and the rest was either scaley porn or photos of reptiles doing each other. Granted, the forums for Herpy are actually useful, and are quite accurate when it comes to reptiles. And for bronies, I've had the misfortune of seeing: Molestia, Naughty Luna, Pony thread simulators (Including ones with images), and (due to a horrible misclick), I accidentally clicked on a video that just ended up being Pinkie Pie sucking on what possibly was some form of genitalia on Rainbow Dash.

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FurAffinity is to furries like r/clopclop/ is to bronies. It's no better judging furries only by the yiffers than judging bronies only by the cloppers.

 

And besides, you think I haven't seen my fair share of creepy stuff in both fandoms? I used to go on Herpy, for goodness sake. About 5% of the gallery was SFW, and the rest was either scaley porn or photos of reptiles doing each other. Granted, the forums for Herpy are actually useful, and are quite accurate when it comes to reptiles. And for bronies, I've had the misfortune of seeing: Molestia, Naughty Luna, Pony thread simulators (Including ones with images), and (due to a horrible misclick), I accidentally clicked on a video that just ended up being Pinkie Pie sucking on what possibly was some form of genitalia on Rainbow Dash.

 

I hate it when that happens, I've been on Facebook and caught random pages spamming porn for not reason, I think I've used the "hide post" button more than my spacebar by now. I honestly wish people would keep porn limited to porn-related sites.

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I hate it when that happens, I've been on Facebook and caught random pages spamming porn for not reason, I think I've used the "hide post" button more than my spacebar by now. I honestly wish people would keep porn limited to porn-related sites.

 

Here is my litmus test: I don't know of a furry exclusive porn site. But I know e621 (I very likely put the wrong numbers) is almost entirely pony, and there is NOTHING but porn on that site.

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Here is my litmus test: I don't know of a furry exclusive porn site. But I know e621 (I very likely put the wrong numbers) is almost entirely pony, and there is NOTHING but porn on that site.

 

As far as image board style sites like that I've been using twentypercentcooler with the filter on. It's actually pretty good.

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As far as image board style sites like that I've been using twentypercentcooler with the filter on. It's actually pretty good.

 

No, e621, IIRC, is ONLY porn. Not some, not most, all. It used to be more generic r34, but now it is almost entirely pony.

 

Trust me, bronies are no better than furries when it comes to r34. The sick, disturbing things that come out of both fandoms blows the mind.

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No, e621, IIRC, is ONLY porn. Not some, not most, all. It used to be more generic r34, but now it is almost entirely pony.

 

Trust me, bronies are no better than furries when it comes to r34. The sick, disturbing things that come out of both fandoms blows the mind.

 

I try to avoid those places, I never understood how pony porn happened, who just went "I'm going to draw My Little Ponies getting it on!"

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As you're all no doubt aware, many of the non-furries who hate us don't make a distinction between bronies and furries. One implies the other from their perspective. It's possible that furries see us as a watered-down clone that somehow disrespects what they're all about, or tarnishes a good name that they desire to guard but don't even possess. Like a bunch of groupies that are riding a "me too" bandwagon. Then there are bronies who hate furries because they're afraid of people misconstruing their appreciation of the show as a sexual abnormality, because you know we already have enough battles on the paedophilia, homosexuality, and irresponsibility fronts.

 

What you have there are two fandoms that honestly have very little in common but often overlap, and see each other as the root of all their public relations woes and fighting about it instead of finding in each other an ally, something neither of us have found anywhere else.

 

 

But that's just how I've come to view all of this in my travels around the internet.

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I try to avoid those places, I never understood how pony porn happened, who just went "I'm going to draw My Little Ponies getting it on!"

 

Yeah, trust me, it gets horribly revolting at a point. Think... Human Centipede. Yeah, that bad... it gets that bad.

 

I have to retire, now, however.

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Yeah, trust me, it gets horribly revolting at a point. Think... Human Centipede. Yeah, that bad... it gets that bad.

 

I have to retire, now, however.

 

I'm glad what I've accdently come across on the pony front was so inane and vanilla now. I can ignore some pretty bad stuff, but not with ponies involved.

 

Goodnight.

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Fixed, are you happy now? Are there any others issue you have with the OP? No, I'm not trying to be a smartass. Just meeting the minimum character reqiurements.

 

Yes, yes. That's better. Nothing else out of the ordinary. A lot of people saw this error. But none of them were reluctant to point it out. So it was up to me B)

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Um... Bronies do far less than damage control. We don't police our fandom at ALL. On any given site, you'll see bronies spamming pony images in irrelevant areas, trying to convert people like Shiite jihadis, and roleplaying in a really annoying fashion (Id est, creating youtube accounts solely to roleplay in comment sections). Don't even START trying to say that we do any damage control on r34, because that is a sodding lie. I can name no less than 5 sites where pony r34 abounds in plenty.

 

I never said anything about spamming pony images just rule34, and that's is a given and has actually been a mixed blessing, allowing us to spread across the Internet very quickly but also earning us plenty of enemies. And we do marginalize cloppers (police may have been the wrong word). You yourself said you hate rule34 art and I've seen a large number of bronies say something similar. But I don't think I've ever heard many furries speakout against rule34. It seems to me that they just accept it as a part of the fandom and make no effort to speak out against it. You say camera crews work hard to make furries looks as bad as possible at conventions. We are very careful about who we allow at our conventions (the only reason Howard Stern got anything was because he talked to people outside the con). I would say we are more careful overall and are more conciounce of our image.

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