💭 If the characters used to represent and promote organized proto-furry meets were like, weird colorful psychic alien hybrid critters, does that mean postfurry has existed as long as furry has?
@indi i think that at any point on the timeline you can essentially sift furry into two different categories, the "what if i could tweak my own reality slightly" category and the "what if i could tweak my own reality TO A SUPER FUCKING WILD-ASS DEGREE" category
@distressedegg I mean I do also believe that the "I'm just here for the art" folks exist, phantomlike, at the fringes, even now. But yeah, agreed. :)
@indi these days there's absolutely a large quantity of them out there, like a ring around the planet. i meet artists who are low-key into furry stuff all the time in comic circles. LOTS of people would be flat-out furries in a slightly different timeline, but i think the community is a little too intense and solidified in what it is and isn't for a lot of folks to feel comfortable in right now
@indi and i think that's due to a variety of factors and some of them aren't necessarily things that can be fixed overnight, to be fair
@distressedegg But yeah I think the germane point is, those spectator-type folks were literally never the majority.