People in the Furry Fanbase are a Disgrace!!!
10 years ago
General
I am presently and thoroughly disgusted a small group of people within the furry fan-base and embarrassed to be a part of it. I was informed that after Dragoneer apologized for his ad campaign -- the one that would bring good changes to FA -- the fandom just openly attacked him! Over 400 comments bashing him on his fender account. Once upon the time, furries were seen is silly weird by nice people with a desire for wearing custom-made fursuits, showing them off at conventions and even meeting and greeting random children. Now it seems like the fanbase is been made into a mean-spirted society populated with nothing more than spoiled, selfish, insensitive, inhumane hypocritical brats who complain WAY too much and forget that Fur Affinity is a site that is not theirs to own but is still free to use for displaying artwork and commenting on other people's art work. Those who are guilty of this primitive act against Dragoneer should be ashamed of themselves.
For those who are still sensible and caring people who were not part of the bashing and agree that is was a terrible thing, I invite you all to copy and paste this journal to your own profiles.
EDIT - I updated this journal with more specifics since certain people like to generalize instead of seeing the bigger picture.
For those who are still sensible and caring people who were not part of the bashing and agree that is was a terrible thing, I invite you all to copy and paste this journal to your own profiles.
EDIT - I updated this journal with more specifics since certain people like to generalize instead of seeing the bigger picture.
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My main purpose for using FA is to display art and connect with others around the fandom. I am very grateful there's a site like this to share and see other furs' art and stuff. Sure, there are things about FA that I don't like, but this is OUR HOME. This is OUR COMMUNITY. Instead of whining about FA's issues like there's nothing that could be done about it, you could either not bother with said issues at all, or take a more calm, level-headed approach at trying to resolve it.
Yyyyyyyeeeeaah. You've Hammered the nail right on the proverbial head here, and I don't really know how else to respond....
So yes; I agree that this was very wrong for what several people did to dragoneer. however, we should not judge a fanbase based on what a few did. So the whole 'FUrry Fanbase is a Disgrace' is not really something I would choose as not everyone is as bad as you might think.
Yes, I know not every furry is like that, but those hundreds of people acting irrationally have made the franchise a serious embarrassment to the rest of us who are sensible and maybe even many MANY people who aren't part of the Furry Fandom.
So by ignoring them; you don't give them the attention they wanted.
Also, ignoring a problem doesn't help it go away. King Louie the 16th ignored problems, and you know resulted from it? The French Revolution!!! On top of that, when Louie finally decided to try and fix things, no one gave a damn about him and instead gave him a one way trip to the guillotine.
uh... Benny, i was talking about personal stuff. When did this turned into a government topic? I mean, There are some problems that should not be ignored, however there other problems that either doesn't effect one or has nothing to do with one.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6849970/
You do not get to shout at me and make assumptions on this comment when you personally do not know me, so how dare you assume I'm out for blood
You said "the furry fandom is a disgrace", instead of saying "some people in this fandom are disgraceful.
To an outside person, that is a generalization. That's as bad as saying "The gaming community is a disgrace" or "The anime fandom is a disgrace", or worse, "the Christian community is a disgrace" because of a small handful of people that are a minority to majority of sane people. If you had worded your title better, this probably would not have happened honestly, because your opinion is fine, just that the title threw people off
BTW, I updated the journal to be more precise since you seem to generalize that I have a problem with the entire fan-base.
The only thing I'm doing afterwards is brushing them off because they are in the heat of a moment, but still, this is nothing against you or your opinon