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7 months ago
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Oh no, furry is "going mainstream"? Or at least is no longer assumed to be nothing but people in animal costumes having an orgy so every single muggle on the planet doesn't recoil in disgust and/or horror at the mere mention of the furry fandom anymore?
Oh no. Whatever shall we do.
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For the record, I don't think furry is going mainstream. Nor do I think there is any chance of it genuinely going mainstream.
What's really happened, I believe, is that mainstream has become desensitized to furry. Mainstream media doesn't see furry as an exploitable market, but they don't see us as deviant freaks who must be avoided either.
DreamWorks and Disney both dabbled with movies like Zootopia, Kung-Fu Panda, The Bad Guys, etc., that they knew would appeal to us, and there wasn't any great big anti-furry backlash that caused anyone but the most hyper-anal "Christian" and "alpha male" types to freak out over it, and I'm sure they've figured out by now that those types freak out over everything that isn't for them and them alone anyway.
Furry isn't going mainstream. The mainstream still sees furry as a barely-relevant market at best. They've just figured out that the general public is fine with "furry media" and don't care about us either way.
So please, don't freak out about the fandom "going mainstream" or being "censored" or "watered down" because some of us occasionally take a break from producing material to which one is expected to fap.
The mainstream isn't embracing the fandom. It's just finally acknowledging it for what it is: A bunch of people who are weird, but not that weird, and who, in the grand scheme of things, are mostly harmless.
And yes, one of my more recent journals was all about how Pixar and DreamWorks both had a trailer for an animated movie with a vore gag at the end of it. But honestly, I just see that as an extension of this dynamic. The mainstream knows the furry fandom exists, knows what it's about, knows of some of the "even weirder" subgroups within it, and isn't so repulsed by them that they're unwilling to give the fandom, or any of its sub-fandoms, an occasional nod or prod if they think it'll be funny to do so.
Oh no. Whatever shall we do.
[/sarcasm]
For the record, I don't think furry is going mainstream. Nor do I think there is any chance of it genuinely going mainstream.
What's really happened, I believe, is that mainstream has become desensitized to furry. Mainstream media doesn't see furry as an exploitable market, but they don't see us as deviant freaks who must be avoided either.
DreamWorks and Disney both dabbled with movies like Zootopia, Kung-Fu Panda, The Bad Guys, etc., that they knew would appeal to us, and there wasn't any great big anti-furry backlash that caused anyone but the most hyper-anal "Christian" and "alpha male" types to freak out over it, and I'm sure they've figured out by now that those types freak out over everything that isn't for them and them alone anyway.
Furry isn't going mainstream. The mainstream still sees furry as a barely-relevant market at best. They've just figured out that the general public is fine with "furry media" and don't care about us either way.
So please, don't freak out about the fandom "going mainstream" or being "censored" or "watered down" because some of us occasionally take a break from producing material to which one is expected to fap.
The mainstream isn't embracing the fandom. It's just finally acknowledging it for what it is: A bunch of people who are weird, but not that weird, and who, in the grand scheme of things, are mostly harmless.
And yes, one of my more recent journals was all about how Pixar and DreamWorks both had a trailer for an animated movie with a vore gag at the end of it. But honestly, I just see that as an extension of this dynamic. The mainstream knows the furry fandom exists, knows what it's about, knows of some of the "even weirder" subgroups within it, and isn't so repulsed by them that they're unwilling to give the fandom, or any of its sub-fandoms, an occasional nod or prod if they think it'll be funny to do so.
sashimigirl23
~sashimigirl23
that should be said for all platforms and all movie studios
sashimigirl23
~sashimigirl23
for the record i totally agree with you i think we should not only ban stuff that doesn't turn us on but also ban the stuff the disturbs us as well an every platform including movie studios
