"Human seriously believing to be a dog not considered mental illness anymore." --21st century
Furriness is a serious mental disorder (kittynunu will forgive :D) and fetish that makes people become stuck in the infantile stage of development and become extremely creepily obsessed and/or identify with anthropomorphic animals (usually those with fur) far beyond any line of acceptability as a healthy personality trait, they often identify e.g. as cats, foxes or even completely made up species. To a big degree it's a sexual identity but those people just tryhard to pretend (and possibly even internalize the belief) they're animals in any real life situation; not only do they have furry conventions, you just see furry avatars all over the internet, on issue trackers on programming websites and forums. Recently it went so far that zoomer kids started to literally meow during classes at school because they identify as cats (this caused some colossal drama somewhere in the UK or something). You cannot NOT meet a furry on the Internet. They usually argue it's "cute" and try to make no big deal of it, however that's a mask that conceals something horribly rotten and fucked up. There is something more to furrydom, it's essentially a cult that has taken an idea too far, kind of like anorexia crosses the line with losing weight -- cuteness is fine, however furries are not really cute, they are CREEPY, they push fandom far beyond healthy passion, you see the psychopathic stares in their faces, they take child cartoon characters and fantasize about them being transsexual and gore raping them and having children with them, some even attempt suicides if you insult their favorite characters etc. Of course, most of them are very young and simply victims of the fucked up age they were born to, it's no wonder they turned out like this when they're being brainwashed through media and "education system", it's not their fault, but it's all the more sad.
Also the furry community -- to call it toxic would be an understatement. Firstly as any big internet-centered group it's through and through infested with wokeness, LGBT+feminazism, which combined with the cultist behavior practically makes them militantly defend their ideology and cyber pushing to suicide anyone who dares to, for example, question the gender of some unimportant child cartoon character (or even if you for example oppose the idea the character has to have some non-binary gender). A favorite hobby of furries is to destroy software project by pushing ugly woke furry mascots, threatening by suicide if the project doesn't accept them. Furries also seem to have a strong love of copyright so as to "protect" their shitty amateur art no one would want to copy anyway. Many create their own "fursonas" or "species" and then prohibit others from using them, they are so emotionally invested in this they may literally try to murder you if you do something to the drawing of their character. Stay away.
In the 1990s we were wondering whether by 2020 we'd already have cured cancer, solved world hunger, if we'd have cloned the mammoth, whether we'd have cities on Mars and flying cars. Well no, but you can sexually identify as a fox now.
It is conjectured that all furries are gay.
{ POST DISCLAIMER: Firstly I have to disclaim I hate disclaimers, consider it more of a note. Some of my very best online friends are furries, I hope they'll forgive me for this article, hopefully it's clear I never hate any individual on a personal level, I criticize the culture. Is it surprising that furrydom isn't particularly appealing to an old borderline-boomer like me? Should I lie about it? Am I wrong in my claims about the toxicity of the furry community? So what's the problem? Yeah, I do hate furrydom, but if you don't mind being friends with me, I will love to be friends with you no matter what, I really don't give a damn about this shite. Peace <3 ~drummyfish }
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