Notices by 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com), page 3

Thinking back at my younger years around the furry scene, there’s a lot of things I do remember:

• When I went to Anthrocon 2013, there were people with distinctly colored “underage” badges smoking (they were orange at Anthrocon in this era with Minor written on them, AC did not have an adult dealers den unlike FWA which did card people to go into the adult room).
• The adult dealer’s den at FWA 2018 did in fact sell diapers next to sex toys. That is all that has to be said really. NSFW art though? Regular dealer’s den.
• A lot of the furries at cons literally, do not give a shit if you have some niche interest that isn’t furry. The same goes with meets really. Old video games? Photography? You’re not guaranteed to find amounts of people into it. Go to an event dedicated to {hobby} if you are.
• A lot of furries I met online were essentially basement dwelling neckbeards and I met far more of those than I did groomers in hindsight. Maybe I just didn’t attract groomers, I know for a fact this has changed now. Anyhow, these furries were literally what you think of DeviantArtists if you trolled them back in the day. They’re shut ins incapable of talking to you about anything other than cooming or some weird kind of autism and you might get lucky if you get to talk to them about that.
• 2017 or so was when the fandom really began to get political (I’m not going to retell the story of RMFC and how it was a good example of two people watching different movies in the same theater), but two things happened in 2018. First Zoe Quinn got furry art (no really: https://archive.fo/G1TLg), and also I went to FWA 2018 with a friend who in just 2-3 years would no longer even be on speaking terms.
• Speaking of the two cons I went to, there was vastly more political, pronoun shit, and similar than there was in 2013 in both the dealer’s den and clothing. To quote Zero HP, a bloodless cultural revolution happened circa 2015 across all forms of culture and it definitely existed in the furry fandom. Nobody wore pride shit in 2013 like they did in 2018 because being a sexual deviant was kind of expected, but they were happy to ironically wear shirts that said “FUR FAG” in a parody of the RUN DMC logo.
• The circles I was around really liked kemono art, most of them don’t repost that on Twitter anymore preferring to repost “validating” art instead. Aesthetics went out of fashion with who I used to follow for sure, and it’s something others have picked up on too.
• When the Nazi furry scare burnt itself out or the furries declared anyone with political views to the right of Lenin to be purged (with the exception of tankies like Pepper Coyote), they went after anyone and everyone for drawing the wrong kind of art. Weebs online know this shit too well but it happens with furries too. In fact, the picture he replied to was a WORDS WORDS WORDS meme shitting on that.
• Despite this, it isn’t new. If you were into things some furries didn’t like such as anthropomorphic vehicles on FurAffinity circa 2012, you’d get flamed for it. That’s changed now as FurAffinity has a category for this.