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People wanting to cancel feral art....
5 years ago
So, I’ve been noticing these last few days some growing concerns about a community/area of furry art/artists/fans, who are slowly becoming under attack in the latest trend of cancel culture within this fandom.
And that is the feral art community.
The fact that THIS community is under threat is just sad and it’s stupid. Feral art from what I’ve seen, I’d estimate it makes up somewhere between 30-40% of the art produced, whether it’s clean or adult-rated works. And I’d say that the majority of the people in this fandom at least follow those particular themes of furry art. I’d even argue that most the fandom FOUND the fandom through feral artwork one way or another, whether that be from furry art found on random or that they grew up on watching content as a child on feral-form characters from particular franchises they had followed (eg, Balto, Ginga, Animals of Farthing Wood). Not saying that it’s the only main core of the fandom, I think there are many major cores and origins. But that’s how I found the fandom, and I know many others who found it in similar fashion.
A big reason people have mentioned on wanting feral porn to be cancelled, is because they believe it normalizes IRL sexual activity with animals (aka. zoophilia) and other related issues. And they believe that those who do like that theme of art, should be automatically put under the assumption that they are zoophiles and animal abusers.
I obviously speak for myself here, and I assume and hope that I’m speaking on behalf of more or less than within 95-99% of feral art followers/artists when I say, we strongly stand against people having sex with any animal. Now I’d be lying if I said that there aren’t people in this fandom who say otherwise and are involved in such criminal acts, because they do exist. It’s disgusting and it puts a bad name on us feral art fans. The number of those people though is basically microscopic compared to the people who have the logical sense to not do it and know that it’s not right in the real world.
I don’t know about you guys, but I believe that in this fandom, people have their art kinks and they have their real kinks. I believe that they’re both separate from each other, and I’d assume pretty much everyone would have similar mentality when it comes to their kinks.
For instance, with myself, there are kinks I enjoy that I only get out of furry artwork. I really enjoy drawing and viewing themes such as size-difference, cheating and incest. But I either don’t have any interest or am not at all in favour of those things happening in reality. Particularly the last two, because they're logically wrong and very low in human standards. The only kink that I have that I'd say is shared in both furry and real life is paws/feet.
I’m feet boi of the real world, so come at me.
But one theme that some people question me about at times, and one I’ve drawn more regularly in recently, would be the anthro and feral pairings in adult artwork that I do (and follow). People do see that as bestiality, because stating the obvious here, anthropomorphic characters are animals who have physical, humanistic features, and I completely understand the points some people are trying to make. But I still see them as animals despite the traits, so I personally don’t see that as bestiality. When it comes to actual zoophilia/bestiality themes (human and feral pairings) in artwork, I can’t bring myself to get into that. To me it’s not the same, and I do find it personally a little awkward when it comes up for many reasons. It’s not the only kink I feel that way about. I also feel awkward with other kinks like gore and vore, inflation, watersports and scat, over-the-top obesity. There’s many of them. But those who do like it, power to you as far as I’m concerned and I’m not going to shame anyone out for that. Everyone has kinks that they do and don’t like, as long as it’s not doing themselves or anyone else harm or if it’s influencing them to think and do horrible things.
Either way, whether I’d get into one or both as a furry art kink, I wouldn’t even dare consider believing that those actions are in any way okay to commit in real life. Particularly when it comes to pets, I see them as like I would see a child. Because we take care of them, feed them, take them to see the doctors (vet) when they’re sick, providing them with a roof over their heads. The essentials are almost identical to how we would be like when taking care of the kids we bring into the world, because they depend on us to live a good life. They’re part of the family. Anyone who rapes their pets (or anyone else’s pet too), I’d have no problems with saying to their face that they’re as bad as child rapists. It’s disgusting and I cannot be any more blunt about it. It leaves mental scars, and it can take away their trust for humans, and I don’t want to see an animal ever be done up like that.
In furry-fantasy, imagination art world, any character of any shape or size, anthro or feral (or even human in some cases as mentioned before) are portrayed in displaying as much maturity, intelligence, speech and consent among other characteristics, as each other. If anyone didn’t, I would question your motives a little (without going too much into making assumptions at least).
It would take someone not only sick and twisted, but also an absolute dumbass cunt, for someone to not have the logical sense and knowledge that animals can’t consent in real life, and they obviously can’t contain the mental capacity to separate furry-fantasy, imagination art world and reality from each other.
If any of you have or ever start to gain serious thoughts of doing so, please seek help before it comes to fruition. You know it's not right, so please do what you can to better yourself.
The latter is also the same problem (from a different point-of-view) for the ones trying to cancel feral art too. They can’t differ one from the other when it comes to judgements on anyone in the feral community. They think too much about it and give no logical thought on it whatsoever. They must include all the complex if’s and but’s, creating illogical solutions. All of that just to get on some witch-hunting bandwagon. It’s like some of those people believe that it gives them brownie points for cancelling someone. They’re that desperate that they’ll just pick out anything and make it out like it’s some kind of pandemic with the furry community.
If people in the fandom are really serious about trying to cull feral art, and the people who either draw and/or commission feral works, or even if they have feral porn in their favourites collection, then that’s throwing away half of the people in this fandom out the window, at the expense of your idea of having some prim-and-proper, safe utopia fandom of controlling, totalitarian idiocy.
People are now more and more, slowly being led to believe that feral art is in that same level of atrociousness as rape and cub themed art, and I think that’s been blown way out of proportion. They are nowhere near in comparison to each other.
And the worst thing about this, is there are a lot of gullible and easily misled people in this fandom, they believe anything that’s being said off the get-go about this. They don’t get told to do their research on it to gain opinions for themselves either. These PC people know it works on them, and this mentality spreads like wildfire.
If I had to be completely honest right now, I’d be lying if I said there wasn't any concern for the state of this fandom right now. I’ve already seen within the last 24-48 hours, numerous artists I follow, who’ve drawn feral art (whether it be NSFW or SFW), drop it completely like a bad habit. And I’m assuming it’s because of two reasons. One, they been persuaded by many of these PC, cancel-culture followers to stop it and they feed them with content and reasons that’s been over-exaggerated. At the end of the day though, whatever the reason for them actually is, I will respect their decision. I’m not going to stop following them because they don’t do feral art anymore. If they’re an artist who I think is good at what they do, whether they draw anthro, feral or both. I will continue support that talent with the respect they deserve from one artist to another.
The other reason I’m seeing right now is that they’re scared of being cancelled. They’re scared of losing the reputation of being a trusted artist and losing their well-earnt business, and they’ve packed away or deleted an art form they excel that, so that people don’t identify them as a ‘bad person’. I can understand to a point why some feel that way and it’s crushing to see that. But I think giving into these people and having no self-esteem to stand up for what they want to draw, and they allow other people to dictate them and make that choice for them, is wrong.
The fandom is not much at all like what it was when I first became a furry. I don't see it as a inclusive and fun environment. It’s now been controlled and directed by people who are influence by over-the-top political correctness and complete lunacy, and it’s a shame. I can only hope that bigger figures of this fandom and people who run places like FurAffinity can continue to hold firm and not let others dictate and control their decisions. And I hope that other artists that draw feral art can keep strong and continue to produce the awesome content they’ve been producing. If it ever ends up being that feral art is banned completely in the fandom, which I doubt it at this point that it will happen any time soon. But if by any chance it ever gets to that stage, then I’ve honestly lost my love completely for this fandom, and I’m probably going to dissociate myself as a part of it. If I can’t produce things of what brought me into this fandom in the first place, then I’m done. Either that or I take my business where I don’t really prefer to take my business to, like Inkbunny or SoFurry (and there can be some messed up content produced on those sites). It’s not ideal for me, but if I want to continue my business in the fandom if it comes to it, then I might not have many better options. My type of content won’t be changing either, no matter what site I’m on.
I’ve always strived to not be a sheep who blindly follow fools. I make my own decisions for myself, I’m 25 years old and I don’t need anyone making my choices for me. I will not be pushed around and peer pressured to do things that aren’t necessary. I spent too much of my youth growing up being told that standing up for myself against bullies and such comes with punishment and a price, to put up with that now. I urge all of you to do the same and keep strong for whatever it is you like. If you haven't done anything wrong, do not dare apologise. You owe it to yourself and your self-esteem as an individual.
For now, I’m going to continue doing what I normally do. Until I can’t post anything on here anymore, nothing will change here. If by chance you don’t like the fact that I draw feral art, it’s your choice whether you want to keep following me or not. It’ll be no loss of value if you don’t decide to continue following my works. I’ve said this many times, and I'll sound like a broken record, but I never took up art to gain popularity or to be a “popufur”, or to showboat my art skills or to please others in the furry fandom. I draw these things because it’s what I enjoy doing, and I won’t stop until the enjoyment for whatever has taken its full course or if my hands get cut off. If continuing to involve feral character in artwork makes me lose followers, it will not stop me. Even if I had to start from zero again, I will keep doing what I love to do, numbers do not influence me. For those who have followed me so far for these last 7-8 years and continue to do so regardless of the content I provide, you are greatly appreciated, and I love you.
I’m just sad that this portion of the fandom right now is being targeted.
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People pretty much accept the depiction of violence on cartoons, games, movies, and videos for entertainment even though any there are typically very harsh consequences for any of these occurring in real life. All these "moralizers" won't start there if they want to try to stand on principle, because they know they will fail or they don't understand the parallels in their justification. So instead, they come at it from the fringes such as erotic feral art and nip at the leadership of smaller groups which may not have the backbone to weather the attacks, time to assess the argument, and/or capacity to understand the wider implications of their decisions, which is the start of a slippery slope that will get steeper as more themes are de-platformed along with the increased influence of these "moralizers."
I put moralizers in quotation because I believe what they are doing is moronic or worse, immoral. Either they don't understand how their arguments could be applied across other themes that are widely accepted and held as being a non-issue, and/or the arguments they are standing on is not based on a good faith belief of their own logic, but rather is to attain power in a form of moral authority in which to influence others upon. The latter may not stop at just one theme if they are victorious, but will move onto others and thus give credence to a slippery slope.
I would like to mention, that: I like to watch vore, watersport, scat..., but I probably won't let anyone swallow me or shit on me. Similar like you describe, liking kink do not mean doing it.
Draw what you like to draw and I'd love to keep following you. <3
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Everybody has their likes and dislikes. Sucks nowadays that everyone is more obsessed with conforming rather than looking for solutions like a tag filter or something :P
For the most part of what I have seen of cancel culture, in regards to artwork, is that it is people who do not want to take responsibility for the content the view and don't want to take control of their personal exposure to it.
Fucking assholes trying to ban something I like. cancel culture needs to be made illegal period.
While I think it's terrible to ban NSFW lawful feral porn, I also want to point something out. If a 'feral' intellectual human characteristics and has expressed emotions, then I don't see that any different than another anthro like Nick Wilde. If it's not bestiality to pair a human with a two-legged walking fox, then I think the logic should apply to human pairing with a four-legged fox that has the same intelligence as Nick Wilde. It's this both, or it's bestiality for both logically speaking. What do you think about this?
And then there’s that adorable fallback, “We separate fantasy from reality.” The brain doesn’t, actually. It learns through repetition. Exposure builds familiarity, and familiarity lowers disgust. It doesn’t purge desire, it feeds it. Maybe 99% of people won’t act on it, but it’s the 1% who do that end up using this kind of work as their handbook.
The next trick is always the same, “Our feral characters are intelligent, they can consent.” Ah, the furry cousin of “she’s actually a thousand year old goddess.” You can give your fox character a degree in astrophysics if it soothes the conscience, but when it still walks on four legs and you draw it mating with a human or a furry character, the average viewer and the law see bestiality, not a metaphor for higher consciousness. Miller v. California doesn’t care about headcanon, it cares about what a normal person sees on the page. And what they see is exploitation.
Once the moral ground gives way, someone always throws the “cancel culture” smoke bomb. “They’re destroying art!” they cry, as if banning wolf porn were the same as burning libraries. Be honest, it’s not censorship, it’s cleanup. FA didn’t ban cub content out of ethics, they did it when credit card companies threatened to pull the plug. The moment feral porn risks their money, watch how fast they rediscover morality.
And that line about “if feral porn dies, half the fandom dies” says more than it thinks. If a community crumbles without bestiality content, then it was never a community, just a gathering of shared fetishes.
The violence comparison always shows up next, “People watch violent movies all the time!” Sure, but no one’s getting off to Saving Private Ryan. Violence in art shocks, feral porn seduces. That’s the entire moral difference. Context changes everything. You can write lore and give your wolf a tragic backstory, but the moment you sexualize powerlessness, you’re not celebrating imagination, you’re selling domination.
Boundaries aren’t the enemy of creativity, they’re the last thing keeping decency alive. A culture that forgets them doesn’t become freer, it just rots slower. And when people start confusing consent with aesthetic choice, empathy dies quietly in the corner.
If you have to keep explaining why your art isn’t bestiality, then the explanation stopped mattering the moment the picture spoke for itself.