I know among my friends, interest is going up and opinion is going sharply down. It's now normal to have a conversation that runs along the lines of:
"I'm not saying the show is bad, but when it's being watched by animal fucking pedophiles in wolf costumes, not that YOU do that, well it's just creepy as shit. I can't figure out why those freaks, not that YOU are one, are like that. Really they are ALL so fucked up they should all be arrested or shot.... but not YOU. YOU'RE fine...."

I don't know about the world in general but at least on the internet I see furries starting to slip into mainstream similar way that anime/otaku way has done. Aka internet denizens have gotten new punching bags out of bronies etc and furries are 'so last year' to poke fun at.

I've seen more furry references in some media, like video games and movies. But it's just references, kinda just adds a nice "touch" along with all the other sub-culture references.

Yup, for some reason we got tons of media attention in that last ~5 years. Still no idea why.

There are a number of reasons why furries get attention. Most notably are "flamboyant" furs and suiters, the media tends to favor coverage of things or people that are different or "strange" from what is considered "normal". Furries are generally garnering attention because of shock value, in most cases.

I think furry meet ups/conventions are definetly on the rise. Look at the major conventions and you'll see there's about a 10-15% increase in numbers on a year by year basis.

I think the internet side of things will always stay around the same as there are a lot of anonymous furs that just enjoy looking at the porn etc. :P

I wonder if the net pool of furries stays about the same and it's just that more of them go to cons nowadays.

I think that would be reasonable to assume. Conventions seem to really be rising in popularity now. Great places to show off fursuits, meet people with the same interests and have an excuse to drink lots and have a lot of lols.

I would never have seen myself attending them 5 years ago but I've been to them for the last three years now XD

the numbers are going up because older furs sometimes dont go to cons as much.Im sure theres lots of people who went to cons in the 90s that arent going as much. I know theres always new young artists and fans popping up at cons and the websites each year.
Its a small steady rise.

Seems like it's melting into another one of those stereotype sub-cultures like Star Wars Nerds, trekkies and the Babylon peeps, that now a days people just kind of shrug off. Bronies are teh new Furries of the now.

I wonder how long the brony craze will last.

When the Sonic fandom dies...

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The thing I've noticed about furrydom is the art in general seems to be more "normalized" than before. People are a lot more social and open about it, and more people just see it as just another thing, another art form. the furries is always linked to sexuality, and that's becoming more open too, so naturally anything related would be on the rise too.

But, I've noticed internet porn, like drawn stuff, is much, much more accepted and in fact quite popular. Youtubers like Zone tan (kinda), Spazkid and associates Shadman and the like are extremely well up there, as with most things they make. It's a lot more of a normal thing to see now which is really interesting.

Drawn pr0n has definitely become more accepted. Heck, they put Marge Simpson in Playboy, and everyone took it in stride. Fingers crossed, I'll live to see Krystal or another hawt furry character on the cover. :p

Oh yeah I remember that! XD And yeah maybe someday :)

While I do enjoy the porn, can I atleast get sum more cute, silly non-sexual arts to, ya know, balance out the sheer metric tonnage of furry porn there is? ;w;

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You have to take into account the fact that over time, sites like FA, DA,..etc... take over the role of search from google as they become the norm for this type of content provision.

meaning you no longer have to scour the internet in search of content that is now provided by few,
this results in less hits on google's engine

as for porn,

every year, you get "new" young people discovering the world for the first time, every time.
this applies for so many things, young people tend to think no one ever thought of anything before them.

so think about this for a second... WHO USES GOOGLE TO FIND PORN ?
...very young people that don't know any better. -- ak. they don't know of reliable sources that can provide them with this type of content.

To do proper data analysis, one has to have deep understanding of the behavior of underlying system that is being analyzed.
In this case human psychology.

This is just a small glimpse into the proper work that you need to do for data analyses,
Allot of people take data of face value and make wrong assumptions of them, I call them politicians.

I feel The interest isn't gaining momentum it's just "Okay" for come out as furry in more areas. When I started if you admitted you were a Furry in my state YOU WERE A CHILD RAPIST, Now you just weird.

"Orange Box caught with penis in mouth" Also yields a good amount of results.

Go home, grandpa, this site is for young people only. Come back when you're 5 years younger.

I'll be 30 soon. might as well bury me now.

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