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Am I Stupid?
3 months ago
I haven't really used Twitter in a couple of years, I stopped using Tumblr a few months ago. Right now I only use this here FurAffinity and Discord(and some forums too but I'm not counting them that's stupid). I still like a few artists who don't post on here enough to sometimes look up their Twitters or Bskies or whatever. It's depressing man. It makes me kind of scared about furry as a whole, like how can it be normal to be regularly subtweeting as a full grown adult. Oh god. Are these the animals I want to be around? If I try to make friends with animals in furry spaces outside of my little bubble, will they be like this? I look up to a lot of these animals, they seem decently smart.
Why is everybody acting like this is normal! Does everyone have a reason that I'm blind to? I know some people make their living selling their art and they have to promote it but I don't think snarky discourse tweets that get two likes a pop are that effective of advertisement. A lot of these animals seem like they actively don't like it but they just complain on the goddamn website instead of stopping.
I'm not very smart, I'm not morally righteous(lord knows), I'm as much or more of an asshole than a whole lot of people, I'm not very mature, my lack of impulse control is a serious problem in my day-to-day life. This is not me getting on my high horse. My high horse is one of those miniature therapy ponies. I suck. Like a lot. A lot of these animals seem smarter and more mature than me. Why are they still using this stupid misery machine in their free time? Will I have to do this if I want to be a somewhat notable furry? That sounds like hell. I don't want that.
This is like the one thing where I don't feel fundamentally unable to understand those around me. So when I don't understand furries it's scary. I'm never going to stop being a furry because it's in every little particle of me. It's my favorite thing. If the community goes to absolute shit I will dress up in my basement and watch old cartoons by myself. But I'd rather it not do it alone. I'm already doing it alone now. It gets lonely and boring without others.
Kind of lost the plot at the end. I'll delete this at some point maybe. This is the sort of thing where I do want people to respond. Sometimes FA journals are unclear like that so I am making it clear, respond if you want please.
Why is everybody acting like this is normal! Does everyone have a reason that I'm blind to? I know some people make their living selling their art and they have to promote it but I don't think snarky discourse tweets that get two likes a pop are that effective of advertisement. A lot of these animals seem like they actively don't like it but they just complain on the goddamn website instead of stopping.
I'm not very smart, I'm not morally righteous(lord knows), I'm as much or more of an asshole than a whole lot of people, I'm not very mature, my lack of impulse control is a serious problem in my day-to-day life. This is not me getting on my high horse. My high horse is one of those miniature therapy ponies. I suck. Like a lot. A lot of these animals seem smarter and more mature than me. Why are they still using this stupid misery machine in their free time? Will I have to do this if I want to be a somewhat notable furry? That sounds like hell. I don't want that.
This is like the one thing where I don't feel fundamentally unable to understand those around me. So when I don't understand furries it's scary. I'm never going to stop being a furry because it's in every little particle of me. It's my favorite thing. If the community goes to absolute shit I will dress up in my basement and watch old cartoons by myself. But I'd rather it not do it alone. I'm already doing it alone now. It gets lonely and boring without others.
Kind of lost the plot at the end. I'll delete this at some point maybe. This is the sort of thing where I do want people to respond. Sometimes FA journals are unclear like that so I am making it clear, respond if you want please.
Is "subtweeting" retweeting or is it a different word with a different meaning?
This is something I thought was immature and shitty when I was thirteen years old on Twitter so it freaks me out to see people in their thirties doing it with no pushback.
I think Twitter and Bsky don't make for a good art website anyways because it isn't easy to look for people's older artwork (you have to sift through their memes, though Twitter's gallery view helps a bit)
I still have them though because some people only post on there.
What social media does to some people is really scary though, you're right.
I believe this is a conversation we've gone into to a certain extent on Discord too, so I hope I don't end up repeating myself too much, but I do think this is just an issue in that too many people see discourse as a way to validate themselves through performative bullshit that the whole community can look like it's one tripmine away from causing another 80 Google Docs to unveil on some random two syllable (X animal) artist being called out for [[TOUCHING KIDS]] [[ABUSING THE GENEROSITY OF THEIR COMMISSIONERS]] [[BEING AN INCONCEIVABLE PIECE OF SHIT ON ALL COUNTS WITHIN SOCIETY]] that the space can be seen as a large hole that only digs itself deeper.
Unfortunately, given the way people act on the internet, I can't expect these issues to improve down the line. (see, "Keep Furry Weird") and "popufurs" dictating what is "good" and "wrong" solely because they post more thinly veiled porn meme comics that people spam their keyboards in replies to. I can't say I'm happy to see the way in which this community has degraded due to its new wave of users and "watering down" of itself, but I have a little naive sense of hope in that things can turn around due to recent internet campaigns going on like the UK petition and call centers being bombed
To think a community created out of being friendly, open, and accepting... degraded to ostracizing others, hostile towards anyone without a specific subset of flags/quirks, and the like is truly demoralizing. Even if I don't consider myself a furry in this manner, I do think a lot of what made this community a shining rainbow has been broken apart by the way in which people try to claw their way out into being the Next Hit Representative™