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Zootopia review part 4: anti-hype?
9 years ago
This is part 4 of my Zootopia review, which ended up being really long, so I split it up into parts.
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I do have a fear that, given the sheer amount of hype this movie has generated, it'll eventually suffer the same fate as Frozen to where its fandom will go out of control (as is the nature of a fandom), start to annoy everyone else, and ultimately people will start to hate the movie on principle. And the fact that it's a solid movie by itself won't help the hate (c.f. Undertale, a great game nevertheless followed by an occasionally loathesome fanbase, and therefore a notable collection of haters). This could be potentially damaging to the furry fandom, and while we're riding on a high right now, we might be facing something more difficult later on.
Though already, I'm starting to think this prediction might be a little simplistic, since what I'm starting to hear these days now that the movie's been out for some time is that there's a lot of discourse about making a distinction between a "Zootopia fan" and a "furry," due to people who want to like Zootopia without being associated with certain negative traits of furry. Like this one. And in response to that, people are starting to seriously debate the question of what it really means to be a furry, and from this I think we're going to get a lot of positive results. I think people are going to start discovering that the negative traits of furry aren't really definitive of the label, and that it's in every way possible to take on the label without taking on any kind of guilt complex connected to it.
I for one don't buy into the whole "sin and guilt" thing at all, and hopefully after some more serious discussion about what a "furry" actually is, more people are going to realize that the extra "sin/guilt" baggage is not at all necessary to being a fan of animal-people, and in the end maybe it'll help clean up furry's image even more.
So yeah, I have some mixed feelings about the future, but as always we'll just have to see what happens.
***SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED***
***SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED***
***SPOILER WARNING - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED***
I do have a fear that, given the sheer amount of hype this movie has generated, it'll eventually suffer the same fate as Frozen to where its fandom will go out of control (as is the nature of a fandom), start to annoy everyone else, and ultimately people will start to hate the movie on principle. And the fact that it's a solid movie by itself won't help the hate (c.f. Undertale, a great game nevertheless followed by an occasionally loathesome fanbase, and therefore a notable collection of haters). This could be potentially damaging to the furry fandom, and while we're riding on a high right now, we might be facing something more difficult later on.
Though already, I'm starting to think this prediction might be a little simplistic, since what I'm starting to hear these days now that the movie's been out for some time is that there's a lot of discourse about making a distinction between a "Zootopia fan" and a "furry," due to people who want to like Zootopia without being associated with certain negative traits of furry. Like this one. And in response to that, people are starting to seriously debate the question of what it really means to be a furry, and from this I think we're going to get a lot of positive results. I think people are going to start discovering that the negative traits of furry aren't really definitive of the label, and that it's in every way possible to take on the label without taking on any kind of guilt complex connected to it.
I for one don't buy into the whole "sin and guilt" thing at all, and hopefully after some more serious discussion about what a "furry" actually is, more people are going to realize that the extra "sin/guilt" baggage is not at all necessary to being a fan of animal-people, and in the end maybe it'll help clean up furry's image even more.
So yeah, I have some mixed feelings about the future, but as always we'll just have to see what happens.
I've had people get confused when I tell them my dragon sona doesn't have anything to do with "hoards" or "gold" or "fire" or "high fantasy castles, etc," that it's literally just a dragon sona. Zootopia's "anyone can be anything" explains that really well, I think. And that's also my favorite part of the fandom c: