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How many of these furries do you know?
12 years ago
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1. THE SHOCK JOCK – the guy who intentionally says incredibly bigoted, offensive shit just to bathe in the reaction he gets from people. He’s a little more developed than a troll because his posts are more thought out than simply saying “yur a faggat and ur art sux!” If you try to confront him about any of his asshattery, he’ll just serve you a plate of LOLs and tell you not to be so easily offended.
2. THE BARNACLE – that guy who in madly in love with you and wants to hang around you all the time and you don’t have the heart to tell him to get lost. He’s only seem a few pictures of yours but is convinced that through your FA account, he know enough about you to be in love with you. He sends you three or four notes every day saying you and him will meet one day and all will be right with the world. I already wrote a pretty mean-spirited journal about this one (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1554880/), but these creeps keep popping up everywhere.
3. THE SENSTIVE FLOWER – there is a distinct difference between constructive criticism and trolling somebody’s art. The first is mean to help that person grow as an artist and improve minor things like anatomy issues, coloring, or poor writing; the second is just insulting their art. Unfortunately, The Sensitive Flower sees any criticism as an insult. “If you don’t like my misshapen penis with a triangle head, you don’t have to look at it!!!!1111” They’ll chew you out in the comments section, delete their entire account, and then show up a few months later and repost their art under a different name. This guy should not be confused with:
4. THE REPOSTER – if it worked the first thirty times, why not once more? They will delete their art and repost it, hoping that A) you’ve forgotten about it or B) they have amassed a bigger fan base than the last time they posted it and hope it’ll get more views now. Sometimes they’ll post ten versions of a picture with barely noticeable differences in coloring. Furthermore, they'll upload your art to a website of 12-year-old trolls butchering the English language: rule34.paheal.com and e621.net, for example.
5. THE SELF-DELUDING SAGE – will make a journal with one sentence they pulled out of their ass as either an inside joke or a sad attempt at being profound.
6. THE INSTAGRAMMER – somehow they’ve mixed up their Twitter or Instagram account with their FA account and flood FA with pictures of food they made.
7. THE ART THIEF – needs no explanation but I’ve found a lot of art manipulators, too. They’ll pull a picture from FA and add another set of dicks onto it or on human muscle sites, I’ve seen Braford’s anthro art with human heads Photoshopped onto them. Then there’s people who blatantly trace the art of others.
I could add a bunch of names to each of these, but I don’t feel like starting a war. Plus, you probably already know a lot of furries that match these descriptions.
Sorry to be in such a pissy mood. This fandom just infuriates me at times.
-- Artizek
2. THE BARNACLE – that guy who in madly in love with you and wants to hang around you all the time and you don’t have the heart to tell him to get lost. He’s only seem a few pictures of yours but is convinced that through your FA account, he know enough about you to be in love with you. He sends you three or four notes every day saying you and him will meet one day and all will be right with the world. I already wrote a pretty mean-spirited journal about this one (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1554880/), but these creeps keep popping up everywhere.
3. THE SENSTIVE FLOWER – there is a distinct difference between constructive criticism and trolling somebody’s art. The first is mean to help that person grow as an artist and improve minor things like anatomy issues, coloring, or poor writing; the second is just insulting their art. Unfortunately, The Sensitive Flower sees any criticism as an insult. “If you don’t like my misshapen penis with a triangle head, you don’t have to look at it!!!!1111” They’ll chew you out in the comments section, delete their entire account, and then show up a few months later and repost their art under a different name. This guy should not be confused with:
4. THE REPOSTER – if it worked the first thirty times, why not once more? They will delete their art and repost it, hoping that A) you’ve forgotten about it or B) they have amassed a bigger fan base than the last time they posted it and hope it’ll get more views now. Sometimes they’ll post ten versions of a picture with barely noticeable differences in coloring. Furthermore, they'll upload your art to a website of 12-year-old trolls butchering the English language: rule34.paheal.com and e621.net, for example.
5. THE SELF-DELUDING SAGE – will make a journal with one sentence they pulled out of their ass as either an inside joke or a sad attempt at being profound.
6. THE INSTAGRAMMER – somehow they’ve mixed up their Twitter or Instagram account with their FA account and flood FA with pictures of food they made.
7. THE ART THIEF – needs no explanation but I’ve found a lot of art manipulators, too. They’ll pull a picture from FA and add another set of dicks onto it or on human muscle sites, I’ve seen Braford’s anthro art with human heads Photoshopped onto them. Then there’s people who blatantly trace the art of others.
I could add a bunch of names to each of these, but I don’t feel like starting a war. Plus, you probably already know a lot of furries that match these descriptions.
Sorry to be in such a pissy mood. This fandom just infuriates me at times.
-- Artizek
I've had a lack of comments on my works. and I'd admit I've been attempted to rant in a journal but i felt the watchers wouldn't like that. :3
But im kinda glad that i havent met all that ya list up yet only some part of it. I guess we all meet all kind of different guys on the internet and some are really weird or just....annoying ^^"
The type of person to actually read this journal and be like "Yeah, I'm one of those people." Is probably the type of person who deserves to be called out the least, since they're the ones that can probably take strides to improve themselves.
You know. The rare breed of person who is actually showing maturity on the internet.
The only problem I'm seeing is that any of the people who deserve to be hurt by something like this won't be to begin with. They'll just wind up bad mouthing Artizek all over the internet.
THE SELF-IMPORTANT ART GOD - This is the artist who takes a commission, but handles it with no concern for the commissioner besides getting their money. They're usually a very popular artist and are quite aware of their popularity, which means they feel they don't have to make much of an effort, since they've got plenty of kiss-asses to fall back on if a few commissions go sour. Popular practices include demanding full payment up front with no estimates on when the picture(s) will be done, taking liberties with a commission even when specific details are given (to the point it only bears cursory resemblance to what was asked for), ignoring written descriptions and going by reference pictures only (often to the point its just a carbon copy of someone else's art style), refusing to show prelim sketches or to make revisions (and the fact they don't do revisions wasn't made clear up front) and lastly refusing to show the end result drawing before full payment is received.
Don't these people already exist outside the furry fandom too? *scratches head*
I wish I could meet all these people,they could help me mature in ways.
I'm 16 and I'm more mature then those type of people
I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE
I haven't personally talked to all of these, but I've seen them, and I just HATE it when I tell someone to please stop trying to yiff with me because I have a mate, and they reply "He'll never know" ... at which point I block them, and tell my mate.
On a more possitive note, a friend has started doing what he calls "Feel Good Friday" to combat all the negativity flying around on here. It's where he takes one of his friends and tells everyone in a journal why that person is such a good friend. It's to help them feel good. It's difficult to say nice things about people you rarely talk to, but it works
I've followed suit and done this for the past two weeks as well and it makes me feel good to make someone else so happy in a few words.
These artists do nothing but YCHs because they are truly lazy as all fuck, and will put priority over other commissions (even ones made weeks beforehand) to hold some imaginary art auction where they'll just repost a sketch with more details because it's a YCH.
I have to agree such things are not limited to furry, but appear online in general. But the combination of online with the sorts of people found in furry (lonely, introverted, outcasts, etc.) makes them far too common here. :/ *hugs*
2. THE BARNACLE – oh dear , i DEFINITELY HAVE HAD one of these in the past. It's so annoying. People who say they REAAAALLY like you even though they barely know you! There's nothing more disconcerting then someone knowing you long distance for a while just going crazy for you and imagining that you and them have something going on.
3. THE SENSTIVE FLOWER – My sensitive flower is actually ALSO The Barnacle. So it's even more complicated to deal with them.
4. THE REPOSTER - Don't know one of these.
5. THE SELF-DELUDING SAGE – Thankfully don't know one of these!
6. THE INSTAGRAMMER – know one of these, though serial commission poster is closer to what he actually is .
7. THE ART THIEF – Oh , do I know a bunch of these!
8-The Furry jock : Like anything else a furry takes to heart , this guy overdoes it to the point where it becomes their sole subject of conversation and sole occupation. Expect to hear about protein powder and how much they can benchpress on every journal they post.
9-The furry conspiracy nut: Takes drama and mod incompetence WAY TOO SERIOUSLY and are almost ready to take legal action against mods if they do anything they don't consider ethical. Thinks people care to know how the mods of a website , that people use for free and that is managed by non-professionals, deal with it.
And....I find #8 kind of hot. *blushes*