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alt.fan.furry's ruins
a year ago
Mark Merlino's passing and my own 30-year furryversary has got me digging through the fandom vaults lately. Old Flickr archives from 90s furcons, dusty old websites and forgotten file directories. And my spelunking led me to alt.fan.furry, the USENET group (what today would be a subreddit). A.F.F. was for many years the locus of furry debate about Whats To Be Done With The Fandom. And I was gonna find hilarious old posts from the gang of dipshits that posted their nuclear-hot takes there from ~96-06.. but then I said.. no. I'm not.
I'm not gonna dip a ladle into that dusty old tureen of shit. Just take my word for it: there was a lot of hateful, homophobic assholes who made that group their club for years. and they fuckin hated Mark Merlino, and furry, and each other, and they just flamed each other for years on end.
The "debates" raged endlessly, pointlessly, looping over the same topics and personal attacks and threats for years. years, it went on. The most pointless goddamn bullshit you can imagine. These fuckin guys, vomiting toxic waste into their keyboards without end. They were burned furs, until that failed, so they hated the burned furs. They just hated everything and everyone.
I envy their stamina. I have no idea how the likes of hirtes and random managed to keep from bursting a blood vessel. These boomers did not stop.
But they railed against the tide. They could not stop us. We were the younger, queerer furs and we took over. We pushed them out in a great replacement. Age and demographics did the rest. They expelled their hate into text on a screen, futilely raging against the future.
Furry did not become the queer-friendly place it is now by happenstance. They fought every inch of it.. but we fuckin won, by numbers, by energy, by just ignoring these fossils. alt.fan.furry now is a graffiti-smeared wall in an old ruined building. Nobody cares what they have to say.
I'm not gonna dip a ladle into that dusty old tureen of shit. Just take my word for it: there was a lot of hateful, homophobic assholes who made that group their club for years. and they fuckin hated Mark Merlino, and furry, and each other, and they just flamed each other for years on end.
The "debates" raged endlessly, pointlessly, looping over the same topics and personal attacks and threats for years. years, it went on. The most pointless goddamn bullshit you can imagine. These fuckin guys, vomiting toxic waste into their keyboards without end. They were burned furs, until that failed, so they hated the burned furs. They just hated everything and everyone.
I envy their stamina. I have no idea how the likes of hirtes and random managed to keep from bursting a blood vessel. These boomers did not stop.
But they railed against the tide. They could not stop us. We were the younger, queerer furs and we took over. We pushed them out in a great replacement. Age and demographics did the rest. They expelled their hate into text on a screen, futilely raging against the future.
Furry did not become the queer-friendly place it is now by happenstance. They fought every inch of it.. but we fuckin won, by numbers, by energy, by just ignoring these fossils. alt.fan.furry now is a graffiti-smeared wall in an old ruined building. Nobody cares what they have to say.
'Course I've not been on a.f.f. in probably a decade at least
Such a long time ago now when I was 90lbs thinner, didn't need glasses and had the same number of internal organs I was born with.
Sounds like the typical encyclopediadramatica/somethingawful crowd.
1. Porn appeals to men (XY chromosomes) more than women, thus fans are mostly men.
2. Men find male genitalia more attractive than they dare to admit, but
3. Men don't find other men attractive (their personalities, etc)
So, combining the personable qualities of Man's Best Friend with an ideal man plus the genitalia, and you get furries, the dream embodiment of the ideal life partner. Imagine staying at home playing games and watching videos while furry daddy goes to work, and when he comes home, kneel or lay stomach down for him. That appeals to the guy who is struggling to take care of himself, which is many these days.
Sources: Thanks to the anonymity of the Internet, most guys have told me they prefer the taste of the male genitalia and everything that goes along with it compared to females, even guys in a relationship with women, and also word that 99.5% of porn sent through instant messaging systems is of guys sending dick pics to each other.