OH NO! ITS NOT A NEWS STORY OR A "COME SEE THIS!"
I just want to discuss what you think is the biggest contributor to convert someone to furryism. For example:
A video game series (there are others besides sonic ya know)
A tv show (tiny toon adventures and animaniacs comes to mind)
A comic book/strip
Or even the slim chance of..a movie
Then there's all the rest that falls into the "other" category.
The reds.
Disclaimer: this post is a joke. No offense is meant to either communists or furries.
I'm telling you man, it's all a big communist conspiracy.
Yiff.
EDIT: Okay, that was random. =x
Where's Comrade Crimmybun?
~Furry
The MoFo.
Sonic, easily. I remember that I was interested in a SA1-related picture of Amy in a swimsuit, and just kinda randomly wanted to see it again (no sex-related purposes, honest to God). So, I Googled it. Then I found Artail through this search. And lo, I found my first furry fanartist (I believe it was Zori, specifically).
Years later, I'm half-tempted to register for FurAffinity as a lurker just to get past the Mature filter. I'm so pathetic. 😛
~Tobe
Nazi Tails isn't convincing anyone.
🙁
don't ever google "Furry Propoganda"
Dang it SX, now I'm curious.
Felicia from Darkstalkers.
You want a pic, google it pervs...haha
Yeah yeah yeah, I know, not all are like that, but good lord a good majority of furries are hornily rampant. I should know; I was somewhat sorta one. A pseudo furry maybe? N'eh, experimenting I guess, all thanks to da innanets.
But it's a combination of everything. The certain lead into the furry fandom then leads to curiousity about fans and the community. Exposure to the fans and the community leads to personalizing everything in which the way you view things and cherish for yourself. Personlizing leads to mimicing the community, to fit in. Fitting in leads to being more open about it. Being more open about it leads to growing with it. Growing with it leads to growing hormones while being open about it. This then leads to normal relationships (if you want to call it that, no offense, I've met very few who seem to have a normal relationship under this basis, and in fact I've talked to many a hardcore furries who say a normal relationship is impossible as a furry), or leads to a crazy sex lifestyle woooooooh!
But yeah, that's what I've noticed and noted myself as I've seen the even more open furry fandom and community explode in the last 7 years. If you want to bash my head open, just take my observation with a grain of salt, since I'm no expert. 😛
jin when i saw that image i thought you were hpa for a second
... hpa?
Hybrid Project Alpha
SHQ Yiff Specialist
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don't ever google "Furry Propoganda"
srsly, it's misspelled.
BTW, I did it, and it actually leads to fake encyclopedias and Register articles bashing furries.
I am not remotely furvert, and only furry in that I like anthropomorphism like EVERY HUMAN SINCE THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION, though perhaps I like it more than the average person. Even though I meet furries their furriness does not seem to be airborne... either that or I'm immune. My non-furriness seems to be confirmed by the fact that I don't seem to be compelled to bash them to advertise to the world that HEY I'M NOT A FURRY I JUST FLAMED FURRIES SO I'M NOT ONE SEE?
AND BY THE WAY NOBODY IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS REMOTELY GAY EVEN THOUGH THEY GOT A PRESS PLANT FROM A GAY ESCORT SITE I MEAN THEY ARE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE SO THEY MUST NOT BE GAY RIGHT JUST LIKE TOUGH GUYS WITH BEARDS I MEAN LUMBERJACKS TOTALLY NOT GAY.
Honestly, I'd have to say the two beings that made it popular were Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse. Those two almost normalized the idea of talking, bipedal quadraped animals.
Bugs Bunny...
*Shudder*
I recall reading a list of top 50 "hottest cartoon characters" linked from Scans Daily a while ago.
Bugs Bunny in Drag was on the list.
23.
Top half of the list.
...Bugs Bunny in Drag.
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Incidentally quite a few furries made it on the list o.o;
No prizes for guessing the winner, though.
Duh, we all know your squirrel was at the top of the list, you tramp you.
~Tobe
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Wait, they showed that on 4Kids? Those bastards... They cover up the fact that Japan exists, but think nudity is acceptable? I'm gonna write a very nasty letter to them now...
i just joined furry united and furaffinity ^_^
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No prizes for guessing the winner, though.
I'll accept the fact I get no compensation for it, but I have to guess anyway. Jessica Rabbit?
Again, no prizes, Shadow Hog. But well done. Of course it was.
Where's Comrade Crimmybun?
Sorry, I slept through the boxers-signal.
Anyway, personally I blame it all on the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny. Why did she have to disappear =(
Well you already missed nazi tails and nekkid amy. Nothing more to see here. Move along citizen.
~Tobe
There is ALWAYS more to see!
PLEASE don't invoke Rule #34.
I invoke Rule #34 on Shadow Hog.
Cartoon animals look cooler than real ones. Thats it, thats all it really is. Humans = borring. cartoon furs = cool and not as borring as people. Furry or not, people are gonna be perverted and sexual freaks. I mean... look at anime...
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Cartoon animals look cooler than real ones. Thats it, thats all it really is. Humans = borring. cartoon furs = cool and not as borring as people. Furry or not, people are gonna be perverted and sexual freaks. I mean... look at anime...
Heh, forget anime, just go read some manga...
I invoke rule #34 on Fexus!
Oh... wait.
~Tobe
why do some people hate furrys? were no diffrent then them.... exept we have fur...and well ok i guess were diffrent but why do some people hate us? and whats rule #34?
Rule #34: There is porn of it. No exceptions.
Knowing Rule #34 is a requirement for indoctrination into the fandom. Ask 2.
~Tobe
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why do some people hate furrys? were no diffrent then them.... exept we have fur...and well ok i guess were diffrent but why do some people hate us? and whats rule #34?
Here's some quick explanations:
1. You think you are actually these "characters" you portray yourself online with. You don't actually have fur, a tail, a muzzle, etc. It's all fantasy, which is all good and dandy. It's when people start taking it a little bit further and swear by the fact that they are and start to live by it. As in, they take that mindset OFF the internet and into the real world. Which leads to...
2. You don't get rights, you don't get privelages, and you are not a group of people who "need special rights". Is it discriminatory to hate on furries? In a sense; any sort of hate for a specific trait someone has is considered discriminatory. Do you need special laws, special rights, to protect you from it? Well, depending on where you live, there more than likely already are civil rights laws in act. Should you "band together" and proclaim yourself a sort of "people"? Hell no.
Again, it's all a fantasy. If you want to bring it into the real world, you do so at your own risk, knowing full well that if society figures you out, you have a pretty high chance of being called a weirdo and a bunch of other names. It's all fun and games. You're not an orange tabby-like fox; you're white/black/hispanic/asian/some chick with a clip-on fox tail on the back of your pants and a hat with fox ears on it. Your suit doesn't make you a wolf; you're white/black/hispanic/asian/some dude inside a friggin' suit. That's all it is, and you're going to have to deal.
3. It's pretty creepy to swoon over cartoon characters, furry or not. A lot of people do this in general, but furries do so as well. It's also creepy when start writing fan-fiction about said character and your online character swooning over each other, and yourself forwardly calling out that said character is your man/woman. Again, that is a generalization; furries do it a lot, though.
4. The crazy sex. Yes, we know. There's a good amount of innocent people who stay away from this matter. But my god there are HUGE NUMBERS who are into it. These people are a combination of 1, 2, and 3. One mentality is that "hey, I'm a furry, meaning I'm an animal, meaning that animals practically screw eachother no matter who it is, thus it's okay for me to have a similar lifestyle! 
". Others just feel comfortable being openly sexual as a furry because they use it as a fantasy outlet - which that one I personally am more cool with, (less creepy). Then there're those who literally just are because of that first mentality. Some conventions have freakin' meetings about furry sexuality and openly invite other "furs" to get a room and get busy. I wish I were kidding.
That's it. Those are the major reasons. For those who want to keep it an innocent thing, it is unfortunate that these are now hard, written-in-stone stereotypes that now come built-in to "being a furry", because I will say, it really is a cute way to use imagination, find out who you are, and keep a sane "get away" from life personality to yourself with other friends you find online. Again, I had a little bit of that in me growing up, so I'm personally not bashing anyone on it. I did grow out of it, and a lot of the things I see today about the growing craziness of it all is pretty freakin' disgusting.
*shrugs*
See, as far as those guidelines go, I'm definitely not #1 (I'm a human and I know it, and although I AM kinda curious as to what it'd be like to be an animal, that's about as far as it goes - I don't think I'm some animal in a human body or similar bullcrap), I understand #2 (although I think the unneeded hate based solely on stereotypes is pretty lame, but then, did you REALLY expect much better from /b/?), #3 is true but kinda inevitable either way (it has human anatomy; your body is trained to lust over human anatomy for the preservation of the species; it is not a far cry, therefore, to assume somebody will put 2 and 2 together to get 4), and #4's just kinda an extension of #3, all things considered (if people find it sexually arousing, it's not long before SOMEBODY out-and-out invokes Rule #34); I suppose, as far as #4 goes, I'd be in the second category. I'd look at that kind of thing not solely because it's furry, but because it's naked human anatomy and debatably in easier-to-access quantities than actual porn (be honest, how much human smut do you have to pay for, compared to how much furry smut you'd have to pay for? There's more human smut overall, but most all of it is paysites).
It's a touchy subject, though. Maybe I should leave it at that giant wall of text I just splurted out...?
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#3 is true but kinda inevitable either way (it has human anatomy; your body is trained to lust over human anatomy for the preservation of the species; it is not a far cry, therefore, to assume somebody will put 2 and 2 together to get 4)
While that's true, it still doesn't make it right. When it gets to the point that you literally want to be with this fictional charicature, "lovingly" and "intimately", it's pretty much close to saying you're not right in the head. Now, with this I mean fictional characters that have absolutely no one behind them, (take Sally and Amy for example). Those are not personas of somebody else. It is just that, a fictional creation based on a story. As opposed to, let's say, Jin and Cooki, in which if they have a charicature of their online persona, it would be an extension of what those people already are.
ie; "Hay dude we're in teh loves."
"Yeah, but we are in internets, and I want the hawt secks."
"Cyber?"
"Need pictures."
"Use my char, dudes!"
"He is kind of hawts."
"Well pretend it's me."
"HAWTS! *secks*"
That's a different story and way much more readily acceptable than saying, "I have the hawts for Amy, and I dream of banging her on a daily basis." That's just 
... not all of us are like that....
I personally find it so amusing when I hear this word...it means to me a damn good show to look and laugh. You would not imagine the true drama that goes through the fandom until you take a dip in it(even if it causes you to be scarred for life, which it will).
However, I find it interesting that none of you have brought up some of the biggest drama cesspools in the fandom. Those being Furry Conventions. I heard a few stories about what happened at Furry Weekend Atlanta(or as it's known to furries, FWA). Priceless they are...granted, they're mere rumors for me because I didn't attend this con(and no, I have never attended a con in my life, but I have many friends who do).
But yeah, from what I've heard furry cons are priceless.
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... not all of us are like that....
I know that. Trust me. I was once. BUT, the question was asked as to WHY a lot of people hate furries. Those were the reasons. It's a generalization of the fandom, but unfortunately, a large number of the furry community meets those notes.
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I find it interesting that none of you have brought up some of the biggest drama cesspools in the fandom. Those being Furry Conventions.
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Some conventions have freakin' meetings about furry sexuality and openly invite other "furs" to get a room and get busy. I wish I were kidding.
hmm...ok....
It was on CSI so it must be true. :3
~Tobe
I'm slow to reply... I'm not hated for being a furry...well, except for those who judge only on first impression. And those people aren't very intelligent.
Jinsoku:
Here's some quick explanations:
[...and the rest.]
I'm not #1. I keep my in-character and out-of-character personalities quite separated, though my in-character personality has many similarities to my real life.
#2...no.
#3, not so much, but I really keep myself under control. I feel more comfortable talking to other furries because of the common interest, but I rarely will do anything considered inappropriate by society.
#4, I absolutely will not participate in. Only watch. Yay for the Yiff Theater in SL. xD
...Myla...
I'm an author that has a cast of majority anthropomorphic characters. None are "me", some have a trait or three of mine but they don't act like "me". Even those made for important people in me life don't fully act like those people.
~Tobe
Same, I don't have any character that has absolutely no common trait with myself, but no character of mine is just me made furry and put in an RP/Fic/Story/whatever.
Well right, exactly. All of our self made characters have to have some sort of trait from us; we created them.
I'm talking about you BECOME your "online fursona" as they say now (I hate that word so god damn much). It's you, on the interwebs, out in the real world, and you openly show it. That's a huge difference than what a lot of you have said in this thread.
The term "furry" has been tied with so many negative conotations that is seems so awfully wrong to call Sonic, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, etc. furries. I mean even Sonic was never considered to be a "furry franchise" when he was created.
Mostly because the "furry fandom" wasn't as prominent then as it is now. Had it been, it most likely would have been.
Yes, I know the furry community has been around about as long as at least Sonic, but it certainly wasn't as outspoken then as it is now.
How the heck did Sonic get lumped into "teh furrie-ness" anyhow? The designs of the characters mostly resembles 'funny cartoon animals' such as Pogo, Mickey, and Bugs and not of nearly accurate human poportions of what you see in say Omaha the Cat Dancer.
