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5 years ago
There was a thing going around Twitter earlier this week about a small group of furs (maybe even just one person) fussing about people over 30 years old in the furry community.
I'm pretty new to Twitter, so I wasn't aware at the time that this crops up now and again. All of the discourse I saw around it was one of two things: A) STFU yo, you can be a furry at any age, and B) STFU everyone else, this is just one kid whining about something dumb and don't make a big deal out of it.
I'm in my 30's so of course I fall on the "we old geezers deserve to be here" crowd, and I assume if you're reading this journal you're okay with us too, so I won't hop up on a soapbox. What I really wanted to do is flip the discourse on its head and say:
I'm really happy to see there are so many younger furs!
Growing up, furries were basically at the very bottom of the internet social hierarchy. Oh sure, there's still a lot of anti-furry sentiment (some deserved, some not), but I think now that we live in an age where the internet has literal Nazis and open racists, making fun of somebody for popping a boner at a neon dog people just doesn't ring as true. There's a new bottom of the barrel, and given that the fandom has a generally pretty negative stance toward that bollocks, we've risen to the point where normies will regularly step in and say "Yo, I ain't a fur, but I love furries, so don't be a dick to 'em."
I'm glad that the furry community is only growing over time. Inclusivity -- the positive, accepting kind, with some caveats -- has always been one of the fandom's biggest draws, and I think that can, should, and does include both younger furs and older ones. Please, keep joining, contributing, enjoying, sharing what this community has to offer. Learn from it, and grow from it.
I 100% believe that you can become a more mature person through this community that is largely shaped around cartoons and other "childish" things. So, keep it up!
Quick disclaimer, though: If you aren't 18 yet, don't make a big show of following NSFW artists or hitting on adults and stuff. Don't get 'em in trouble. That's gonna work out better for everybody in the end.
I'm pretty new to Twitter, so I wasn't aware at the time that this crops up now and again. All of the discourse I saw around it was one of two things: A) STFU yo, you can be a furry at any age, and B) STFU everyone else, this is just one kid whining about something dumb and don't make a big deal out of it.
I'm in my 30's so of course I fall on the "we old geezers deserve to be here" crowd, and I assume if you're reading this journal you're okay with us too, so I won't hop up on a soapbox. What I really wanted to do is flip the discourse on its head and say:
I'm really happy to see there are so many younger furs!
Growing up, furries were basically at the very bottom of the internet social hierarchy. Oh sure, there's still a lot of anti-furry sentiment (some deserved, some not), but I think now that we live in an age where the internet has literal Nazis and open racists, making fun of somebody for popping a boner at a neon dog people just doesn't ring as true. There's a new bottom of the barrel, and given that the fandom has a generally pretty negative stance toward that bollocks, we've risen to the point where normies will regularly step in and say "Yo, I ain't a fur, but I love furries, so don't be a dick to 'em."
I'm glad that the furry community is only growing over time. Inclusivity -- the positive, accepting kind, with some caveats -- has always been one of the fandom's biggest draws, and I think that can, should, and does include both younger furs and older ones. Please, keep joining, contributing, enjoying, sharing what this community has to offer. Learn from it, and grow from it.
I 100% believe that you can become a more mature person through this community that is largely shaped around cartoons and other "childish" things. So, keep it up!
Quick disclaimer, though: If you aren't 18 yet, don't make a big show of following NSFW artists or hitting on adults and stuff. Don't get 'em in trouble. That's gonna work out better for everybody in the end.
Most of my friends are above their 30's and all my favorite artists are in their 30's! Im happy that most of them are still making art! It's been an honor to chat with them and learn from them. If all the sudden at the age of 30 they just up and left, then that's upsetting!!
Obviously, this person who made this statement is young and SURE YEAH when you turn 30 I guess you won't be in the fandom at that age, let's see how that goes for them haha
It's awesome to hear you agree. Love watching your streams by the way~
Thank you for joining my streams, means alot to me!!