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a year ago
😸Incoming Mowing🐾
why is everybody so ignorant, so stupid, so batshit crazy. why does anybody willingly submit to the obvious brain-dead fascism of the modern age. sometimes i feel like i'm the only one who notices and cares while everyone else lives in blissful ignorance until they stumble into the gullet of the monster they've blinded themselves to.
you know those modern cars are designed to give the owner in your position a financial nightmare, right? you know every new tech company/product is just a grift with the sole intent to get a payday from being bought by another company, right? you know social media is a spider's den that's entire point is to get you angry and addicted so it can keep selling adspace, right?
they can't r*pe the rainforest or mining towns anymore so they pillage your mental health and daily wellbeing instead. you're so worried about the fucking factory farmed silkworms and whatever you completely disregard the Chinese people forced into lives worse than death to produce your shitty, low-quality, overpriced new crap you post on tiktok about being unable to live without. and its genuinely pathetic because you cast aside any anonymity you could have had to go by your real name online and now you live in fear that your brand masters will punish you for saying anything even slightly negative (even when true!) about their overpriced garbage they've drained of all the quality that may have previously been there for the sake of a few more pennies for that shitbag billionaire ceo. its certainly not going to the employees who the company couldn't exist without, just the c-level shitter who could be easily replaced with ai trained on the company's history and goal. if you believe that literal internet cancer has any place in anything, that is. personally, i think the c-levels should be open sourced to anyone who actually gets what the fuck the company should be doing. (disney, kodak, and polaroid you know i'm looking you directly in the eyes here)
and i think what pisses me off about all this the most is that Furry is supposed to be our space outside of the dregs of humanity where we, as the animals, shit on every predatory thing those fucking humans do to to each other and call them what they are: an invasive menace. we should be building something better than those stupid humans have...but nah, ever since the fandomification of the 2010s this place has been overrun with more humans or "ironic" furries than i even want to think about. wearing the skin of our community as a costume while doing the same predatory shit inside that the humans are doing out there. what the hell even are the rest of you, really? are you truly animals or just humans too ashamed of yourselves to do your human shit to other humans so instead you take advantage of poor wittle aminals like us. humans are very good at projecting, and we all know everyone's favorite two sexual wirecrossings to hate are entirely based upon power imbalance and depravity. and we also know humans are prolific liars and projectors. so what, is the fido-fucking in the form of forcing us to play your human shit because the other humans are too much? is your kiddiediddling taking the form of stealing our whim cash with your generic YCH slop that people genuinely can't tell apart from ai generated slop and that is a deep insult to all those efficiency "artists" with pages full of the same fucking digital painting on a deviantART anime pose base with minor changes to denote different characters. a hundred bucks would be better spent being burned than on that generic, talentless slop. when people say these days "furry is about the art" and don't specify but are clearly some weekend warrior type i wonder what art they're talking about as they're surrounded by mere consumer culture bullshit that infested our spaces in the past 10 years. and then you point the blame at the shape of the cock of an obvious human-body-stand-in for those of us who have deep trauma about human bodies and prefer the friendly and comforting nature of a cartoon animal like the ones on TV we found refuge with. you point the blame at those of us who wear diapers because they make us feel safe, improve our mental health which had rotted away from overwhelming bathroom anxiety and having to deal with people in public restrooms being creeps, and just in general we have medical need for. to exhibit the core behavior yourself and then point at someone else who has something you think you can correlate with your problem and then point the blame squarely on the other parties is about as fucking degenerate humanity as you can get. its like lesson 1 in human school. you can't go five seconds without hearing about a politician (you know, the humans sanctioned to be predators....) doing it, and so many more people its so obvious they are but for some godforsaken reason, despite it always being the same fucking outcome, all the other idiot humans will trust the obvious creep who has successfully cast blame and ruined lives to maintain their shitty personal little hero story. nevermimd, by the way, that if those predatory types who find themselves here would just shut the fuck up with their diabolical bullshit this is also the place where we can band together and uncross those wires as a community. we've done it many times before. (well, not the new crop. they're big into cancelling, whatever that is)
yeah we used to be about the art, before you told everyone they needed a fursuit but didn't need a fursona, before you automated everything because you wanted your little animal doodled NOW like we're fucking walmart or something and you're buying one of those shitty mass-produced generic canvas prints. back when we made our own fursuits instead of being a bunch of talentless cliquy instagram fucks who judged you based on which maker you choose and if you wear yours more than they wear theirs. we were cliquey fucks for other things. but our gatekeeping meant something and, unlike today's, was arbitrary in order to have someone prove they cared enough to be part of the group so we could keep things consistent. and look what happened when you made us stop. what even is this? its all marketable plushies waiting to be absorbed by fucking disney for the next zootopia movie, which they think is as good as having all talking animal movies instead of a bunch of stupid boring human movies. where the fuck am i on the screen, huh? where's my talking snow leopard representation, huh? or does that not matter because its not skin color? and if that's the case, how is anyone with autism or down's syndrome or whatever supposed to get their representation? and how about some actually good trans representation instead of barely-there uwu beans- we're raw from that whole meatgrinder of the world the humans put us through for no fucking reason and that's not friendly to bigoted shithole demographics that should go fuck themselves. hypocritical cumstains. can't even let queer people be because you think queer just means the same as the bunch of letters you call our community based on a bunch of labels which you take like gospel with zero ability to deviate from. i'm a trans woman, but i don't hate my former masculinity. my transition is equally last hurrah for male sexuality and identity as it is discovering and becoming the woman i am meant to be. i will still love classic cars, metalworking, repairwork, blazers, pants, button-downs, briefs, my penis, and playing dogs by the end of it, are you stick-up-your-ass types going to call me a fraud? you've called others such, and denied their identities because they didn't fit in your little label boxes. queerness is about rejecting boxes rather than putting yourself into another one in order to escape the first one. you sound like the red idiots but while wearing blue ties. we are queer because we're queer. we are animals because we are animals. you can't disagree because you'd just be wrong and, contrary to popular belief in the tiktok age, that means you deserve no platform to be heard. these days its no AR and only T.
we are not perfect, we do not claim to be and we shouldn't be made to have to pretend we are. you see me post fucking everything i make because i need you to understand there's more to creating than the polished bullshit you see on social media. i draw myself a bunch, i draw backgrounds even though i'm clearly still learning and my anatomy is somewhere between cartoon and real. and i love it. i love drawing and painting and making images appear from nothing. i love when what felt like a mistake turns out to be exactly what i was trying to do the whole time. its what i live for. you don't have to be some shitty content machine either. create because you want to. create because you feel. create because its what you do. (you'll just burn yourself out and hate whatever you were doing eventually by making your job commissions anyways. you don't see the aftermath because its so easy to hide failures in the algorithm, but i've seen it happen too many times to count and its always a tragedy that could have been avoided. i hope none of them killed themselves over it, a lot get really depressed and go silent indefinitely when it all comes crumbling down. its the inevitable result of exploiting yourself and your passions for the benefit of capitalism...)
we're supposed to be respite from the real world, a place to find likeminded people, a place to recover from the predation of humanity. and you dipshits brought all that horrible garbage INSIDE OUR HOME. i need some fucking proof things are changing from this miserable place i've observed furry become in the past few years. you can see from when i made this account and the outdated name i've been around here for a LONG TIME. i have been a furry for longer than the third reich and the confederacy existed....combined. i have literally watched empires crumble. this current thing is NOT what its about, or what its supposed to be. i want to be proved wrong, prove to me this reality isn't manifesting the way i clearly fear it is. prove me wrong, modern furries. do better. be better. or fuck off.
ps
also no, communal living having no possessions or money would not be any better. fuck your communism too. all you extremist fucks from every where forget that things can just be fucking casual instead of life or death all the time and you can just fucking mix economic systems with bartering and kindness when no specific economic system is breathing down your neck or taking control of lives via required payments to stay living. radical casualification? idfk but whatever its called it more punk than you fucking slaves to the system who want to call yourselves revolutionary. get Universal Basic Income to become law and force-stop & reverse inflation....its complete bullshit made up for the sake of profiting only a few anyways and doesn't need to exist. become a balloon animal instead.
..........
now that i've sufficiently pissed everyone off, who's dragging me to the restored-to-1970s cromwell FurFright hotel this weekend? give me a heads up what the plan is.
you know those modern cars are designed to give the owner in your position a financial nightmare, right? you know every new tech company/product is just a grift with the sole intent to get a payday from being bought by another company, right? you know social media is a spider's den that's entire point is to get you angry and addicted so it can keep selling adspace, right?
they can't r*pe the rainforest or mining towns anymore so they pillage your mental health and daily wellbeing instead. you're so worried about the fucking factory farmed silkworms and whatever you completely disregard the Chinese people forced into lives worse than death to produce your shitty, low-quality, overpriced new crap you post on tiktok about being unable to live without. and its genuinely pathetic because you cast aside any anonymity you could have had to go by your real name online and now you live in fear that your brand masters will punish you for saying anything even slightly negative (even when true!) about their overpriced garbage they've drained of all the quality that may have previously been there for the sake of a few more pennies for that shitbag billionaire ceo. its certainly not going to the employees who the company couldn't exist without, just the c-level shitter who could be easily replaced with ai trained on the company's history and goal. if you believe that literal internet cancer has any place in anything, that is. personally, i think the c-levels should be open sourced to anyone who actually gets what the fuck the company should be doing. (disney, kodak, and polaroid you know i'm looking you directly in the eyes here)
and i think what pisses me off about all this the most is that Furry is supposed to be our space outside of the dregs of humanity where we, as the animals, shit on every predatory thing those fucking humans do to to each other and call them what they are: an invasive menace. we should be building something better than those stupid humans have...but nah, ever since the fandomification of the 2010s this place has been overrun with more humans or "ironic" furries than i even want to think about. wearing the skin of our community as a costume while doing the same predatory shit inside that the humans are doing out there. what the hell even are the rest of you, really? are you truly animals or just humans too ashamed of yourselves to do your human shit to other humans so instead you take advantage of poor wittle aminals like us. humans are very good at projecting, and we all know everyone's favorite two sexual wirecrossings to hate are entirely based upon power imbalance and depravity. and we also know humans are prolific liars and projectors. so what, is the fido-fucking in the form of forcing us to play your human shit because the other humans are too much? is your kiddiediddling taking the form of stealing our whim cash with your generic YCH slop that people genuinely can't tell apart from ai generated slop and that is a deep insult to all those efficiency "artists" with pages full of the same fucking digital painting on a deviantART anime pose base with minor changes to denote different characters. a hundred bucks would be better spent being burned than on that generic, talentless slop. when people say these days "furry is about the art" and don't specify but are clearly some weekend warrior type i wonder what art they're talking about as they're surrounded by mere consumer culture bullshit that infested our spaces in the past 10 years. and then you point the blame at the shape of the cock of an obvious human-body-stand-in for those of us who have deep trauma about human bodies and prefer the friendly and comforting nature of a cartoon animal like the ones on TV we found refuge with. you point the blame at those of us who wear diapers because they make us feel safe, improve our mental health which had rotted away from overwhelming bathroom anxiety and having to deal with people in public restrooms being creeps, and just in general we have medical need for. to exhibit the core behavior yourself and then point at someone else who has something you think you can correlate with your problem and then point the blame squarely on the other parties is about as fucking degenerate humanity as you can get. its like lesson 1 in human school. you can't go five seconds without hearing about a politician (you know, the humans sanctioned to be predators....) doing it, and so many more people its so obvious they are but for some godforsaken reason, despite it always being the same fucking outcome, all the other idiot humans will trust the obvious creep who has successfully cast blame and ruined lives to maintain their shitty personal little hero story. nevermimd, by the way, that if those predatory types who find themselves here would just shut the fuck up with their diabolical bullshit this is also the place where we can band together and uncross those wires as a community. we've done it many times before. (well, not the new crop. they're big into cancelling, whatever that is)
yeah we used to be about the art, before you told everyone they needed a fursuit but didn't need a fursona, before you automated everything because you wanted your little animal doodled NOW like we're fucking walmart or something and you're buying one of those shitty mass-produced generic canvas prints. back when we made our own fursuits instead of being a bunch of talentless cliquy instagram fucks who judged you based on which maker you choose and if you wear yours more than they wear theirs. we were cliquey fucks for other things. but our gatekeeping meant something and, unlike today's, was arbitrary in order to have someone prove they cared enough to be part of the group so we could keep things consistent. and look what happened when you made us stop. what even is this? its all marketable plushies waiting to be absorbed by fucking disney for the next zootopia movie, which they think is as good as having all talking animal movies instead of a bunch of stupid boring human movies. where the fuck am i on the screen, huh? where's my talking snow leopard representation, huh? or does that not matter because its not skin color? and if that's the case, how is anyone with autism or down's syndrome or whatever supposed to get their representation? and how about some actually good trans representation instead of barely-there uwu beans- we're raw from that whole meatgrinder of the world the humans put us through for no fucking reason and that's not friendly to bigoted shithole demographics that should go fuck themselves. hypocritical cumstains. can't even let queer people be because you think queer just means the same as the bunch of letters you call our community based on a bunch of labels which you take like gospel with zero ability to deviate from. i'm a trans woman, but i don't hate my former masculinity. my transition is equally last hurrah for male sexuality and identity as it is discovering and becoming the woman i am meant to be. i will still love classic cars, metalworking, repairwork, blazers, pants, button-downs, briefs, my penis, and playing dogs by the end of it, are you stick-up-your-ass types going to call me a fraud? you've called others such, and denied their identities because they didn't fit in your little label boxes. queerness is about rejecting boxes rather than putting yourself into another one in order to escape the first one. you sound like the red idiots but while wearing blue ties. we are queer because we're queer. we are animals because we are animals. you can't disagree because you'd just be wrong and, contrary to popular belief in the tiktok age, that means you deserve no platform to be heard. these days its no AR and only T.
we are not perfect, we do not claim to be and we shouldn't be made to have to pretend we are. you see me post fucking everything i make because i need you to understand there's more to creating than the polished bullshit you see on social media. i draw myself a bunch, i draw backgrounds even though i'm clearly still learning and my anatomy is somewhere between cartoon and real. and i love it. i love drawing and painting and making images appear from nothing. i love when what felt like a mistake turns out to be exactly what i was trying to do the whole time. its what i live for. you don't have to be some shitty content machine either. create because you want to. create because you feel. create because its what you do. (you'll just burn yourself out and hate whatever you were doing eventually by making your job commissions anyways. you don't see the aftermath because its so easy to hide failures in the algorithm, but i've seen it happen too many times to count and its always a tragedy that could have been avoided. i hope none of them killed themselves over it, a lot get really depressed and go silent indefinitely when it all comes crumbling down. its the inevitable result of exploiting yourself and your passions for the benefit of capitalism...)
we're supposed to be respite from the real world, a place to find likeminded people, a place to recover from the predation of humanity. and you dipshits brought all that horrible garbage INSIDE OUR HOME. i need some fucking proof things are changing from this miserable place i've observed furry become in the past few years. you can see from when i made this account and the outdated name i've been around here for a LONG TIME. i have been a furry for longer than the third reich and the confederacy existed....combined. i have literally watched empires crumble. this current thing is NOT what its about, or what its supposed to be. i want to be proved wrong, prove to me this reality isn't manifesting the way i clearly fear it is. prove me wrong, modern furries. do better. be better. or fuck off.
ps
also no, communal living having no possessions or money would not be any better. fuck your communism too. all you extremist fucks from every where forget that things can just be fucking casual instead of life or death all the time and you can just fucking mix economic systems with bartering and kindness when no specific economic system is breathing down your neck or taking control of lives via required payments to stay living. radical casualification? idfk but whatever its called it more punk than you fucking slaves to the system who want to call yourselves revolutionary. get Universal Basic Income to become law and force-stop & reverse inflation....its complete bullshit made up for the sake of profiting only a few anyways and doesn't need to exist. become a balloon animal instead.
..........
now that i've sufficiently pissed everyone off, who's dragging me to the restored-to-1970s cromwell FurFright hotel this weekend? give me a heads up what the plan is.
I'm sick of commodification, and ads, and AI shit, and being forced to see stuff I never asked for. I've stayed on FA because it's one place I'm not bombarded with junk (material junk. psychic junk. junk content.)
If u feel like elaborating, what are you seeing on FA that you wish would change? I think I get the gist of what you're saying but I'm not sure I grasp it on a concrete level. I think I'm wondering what I should do to make/keep it the right kind of community.
I've been in the fandom for 10+ years, and I'm not sure if I fit the definition of a casual or not. It's part of my identity, to be sure. But I would also say I practice furry in a way that isn't stigmatized, relatively. I would really value insight from someone who has seen Furry grow and change, for better or worse. Only if you feel like writing a follow up tho! Have fun at FurFright if you go, sounds awesome.
Was "it" good before? i have no idea- my groups were okay i guess and without all that being offensive stuff the humans were so into. there was some actual spirit to it though, overall. What I saw felt more engaging, what people were doing was more accessible. now its all about brands and boring real life things like starbucks barista fursonas, like jfc not even some kind of forest person? a generic dnd world? ugh you can't even imagine them being a goofy influencer or something for christ sake?? the whole point is to escape humanity, not let your fursona help corporate ghoul humans groom you into a good little minimum wage slave. the early days it was building momentum and people were trying to understand what it was. i like those hazy days, to relive them because sometimes its freeing to not see the links between everything.... Then the time i was getting involved it was a celebration, pride in the self and what and who you are. but now its "building a brand" whatever the hell that is and its repulsive. i want to fumble in the dark and celebrate in the light because you know, life's more interesting that way than everything being some meaningless grind to hit the money-having scoreboard. again, just more gargage we're supposed to leave at the door here, that toxic "grind" mindset of monetizing every aspect of your life. god forbid you don't pay ransom to 12 fucking streaming/cloud services for things you're supposed to be able to buy once and own forever. "better than non-existing in a dark empty void" is a preeeeeeeeetty low bar to pass, and yet the modern age just can't seem to clear it, especially when really its just same as it ever was on the actual life for real people scale regardless of what we'd been celebrating the recognition of. they're just trying to take it away again now so really what changed. now there's just a digital panopticon in everyone's pocket so don't say the wrong thing or your social score will go down :( i can't take that kind of living, you know? idk how or why anybody puts up with this in every facet of their lives. i just wanna log in, see, interact with, and share my art with other furries who i know are also artists and not ai spam, stolen stuff. or commission puppymills. i can't tell you the last time i saw the browse page and it wasn't just full of that stuff with one actually furry thing in there that wasn't just mass-produced slop. i'm so glad to have found the pages i do, and the sorting tools are fantastic (if lacking still slightly, an underwear tag in subjects and sri lankan leopard & "no specific species" in species to compliment landscapes and still life in subjects.) so i use those a lot. but then you have some people who just don't use the sorting tags or the written tags and now nobody can find them. idk what you can do about that last bit but its just something that bugs me.
Like what I'm saying is other than the obvious fear of a more sponsor-friendly aka sanitized fur affinity when everything else online these days is already sanitized garbage anyways for the almighty god the dollar, the thing that's wrong with FA is the same thing that's like extremely wrong with everything right now. There's no actual reason to change, only Fear Of Missing Out bullshit. Missing out? yeah missing out on being another stupid online grift doomed to failure like literally everything else these days. Act like classic skin dark mode FA, not that awful app-looking-ass reskin that's automatically on when you're logged out. there's already garbage furry apps and shitty furry art sites nobody uses *coughinkbunnycough*- Fur Affinity needs to avoid pulling a 2010s disney and kodak. it needs to hold its ground knowing what it is instead of forgetting its literally the standard and then reinventing itself "for the modern age" just so it can choke itself to death trying to live up to its own past standard on garbage faux-innovations spat out by obvious grifters that gained false legitimacy via purchased virality. Fur Affinity is THE furry culture hub, and it needs to not only survive, but persist in its dinosauric form. Otherwise we're just a bunch of random stupid animals with no past, no home, no future, and no point. and that's not what i fucking signed up for.
I'm optimistic but not ready to make a judgement call yet. I didn't grasp how much this site and community meant to me until now.
i feel like there's still too much of the tacky commission-begging in browse, but that mostly bothers me because the artists i did follow who sometimes do that don't post the finished stuff so it feels less like a sincere promotion of artistic projects and more like a commercial which despite being desensitized to is the kind of corporate trash that cheapens and gentrified the experience. a symptom- not the cause. if it felt more, you know, like an actual artist is there and its not just a bot then i wouldn't even have this particular complaint. idk if that's a site thing or a current pop-furry culture thing though- its not the Furry world i'm actively participating in regardless.
as for all my societal complaints the journal was about , some idiots came and tore down another building i liked a lot and i've seen an annoying rise in idiotic automatically-generated videos spewing annoying misinformation about stuff that matters to me but to every one else it seems to just be "a weird old curiosity". i got a pair of jeans from a label that used to make my favorite jeans but now they're just as cheap and flimsy as the crap i was sick of putting up with at 3 times the price. not only that, everything keeps getting more gray and put into the stupid phone screen so nothing on that front has changed for the better as far as i am aware.
We burned down their churches, we built an arcade
and they can get pissed all they want, i'll piss on them and in their mouths. we don't need any more christopher columbus types destroying the "new" worlds they "discover" for profit. we all know how that guy treated animals, specifically monkeys. cut their friggin hands off.