
| Nemns #470306 10 months ago |
It's funny because it's true... |
| Sonlir #470318 10 months ago |
Grab your axes men.
We have a level 5 furry infestation here. |
| Anonymous #470320 10 months ago |
I gonna contend this using this argument a Star Trek fan can love the show Star Trek and dress up like Mr. Spock for conventions but that doesn't mean he believes that the spirit of Spock is living inside him controlling his actions, nor does that mean he was a Star Trek fan. The point I'm trying to make is, that there is a fundamental difference between being the fan of a show, and whatever it is furries do. |
| Anonymous #470321 10 months ago |
Oh hai Fender and Dragoneer, didn't think I'd see you here. |
| Anonymous #470327 10 months ago |
I'm sorry the end of that first sentence should be; "mean he was *born a Star Trek fan" |
| NightJack #470332 10 months ago |
How is it true Nemns? I don't think of the ponies in the way a furry would, I like them as characters but if they where human maybe I would think more. |
| NightJack #470343 10 months ago |
I key point being that I don't have that kind of ideas of animals. |
| Anonymous #470388 10 months ago |
If every brony can be called a furry, then the word has lost all meaning. |
| Nemns #470393 10 months ago |
@NightJack
Let's not kid ourselves, this show would not have a tenth of its popularity if the characters weren't adorable ponies... Obviously bronies and furries aren't exactly the same thing, but how do you think furries got into furry shit? Largely by watching cartoons like this, with cute and personable talking animal characters, or similar things. The fundamental attraction to each interest is the same, and all the hate bronies seem to have toward furries is, I think, kind of self-defeating... Or I could just be stoned... |
| NightJack #470450 10 months ago |
@Nemns Your stoned, I've watched shows with show with animals and even anthropomorphic animals for most of my life and I'm in no way a furry. |
| Sonlir #470455 10 months ago |
Some furries try to make themselves feel better by thinking of everyone who likes cartoons with animal characters as furries.
@Nemns Not at all. See Powerpuff Girls would probably had a simlar fanbase if the usage of internet was as widespread back then as it is now. It's also not because the characters are animals. It's more about their personalities and writing than the fact they are horses, it that was the case every single "brony" would love G1 G3 and G3.5 and you probably know it's not the case (and most of them activaly shun them). |
| Nemns #470501 10 months ago |
@NightJack Just because you don't self-identify as a "furry" doesn't mean you don't like the same shit. I barely consider myself part of the furry community anymore simply because it turned into a gay mating ritual for twinky teenage boys, but I still like furry shit.
@Sonlir I'm not saying the storytelling and character personality has nothing to do with it, but I am saying the fact that they're adorable talking ponies has a lot to do with it... |
| phallen1 #470503 10 months ago |
I know a fur who is crazy-obsessed with MLP:FiM, and another fur who hates it. He hates it because his boyfriend (the first guy) is obsessed with it.
He has a standing threat, that whenever his boyfriend buys pony shit, he counter-buys a badger. |
| Anonymous #470521 10 months ago |
Fandom constantly sprouts the phrase "Love and tolerate"
Attitude to furries: FUCKYOUALLGODIEARRRGGYOUDONOTHINGBUTDRAWPORNOFANIMALSYOURALLFUCKINGSICKTL;DR! I'm not a furry, but in my opinion you are all being dicks towards them. Give it a fucking break. |
| Chance #470524 10 months ago |
A furry is here to end your argument. You're all wrong. Now, who wants cake? |
| NightJack #470527 10 months ago |
@Nemns I have a very open mind about thing like this, I don't self-identify as a furry as I'm not one.
It's the people like you that make it hard for people like me to get others to understand the fanbase, this is why i get so annoyed by a lot Sonic hate too, people think the whole fanbase is group of furry fans with someone like you saying that it's true when it's not. |
| NightJack #470547 10 months ago |
@anon470521 I'm just trying to point out to him that we are not all furries.
I happen to know someone that is a furry and me and him get along just fine , but I don't care of his furry kink. |
| Nemns #470550 10 months ago |
... Also, the previous generations of MLP were generally just crappy on all fronts and obviously just meant exclusively for prepubescent little girls. And the Powerpuff Girls was just another good Saturday morning cartoon type show, it would never develop the cult following that MLP:FiM has no matter what the influence of the internet was, is or will be...
Just something about the ponies, man... |
| Chance #470558 10 months ago |
>furry kink....
That makes me feel good... |
| Anonymous #470564 10 months ago |
^ It's not the fact that they're ponies. It's the fact that they're My Little Ponies. It's the paradox of combining "My Little Pony" and "not sucking." If it were any other nostalgic franchise, the reaction would be the same. Imagine a gritty reboot of Captain Planet. You bet there'd be a cult following. |
| NightJack #470573 10 months ago |
^ I bet it does your strange strange little man.
jk That what the guy I know calls it. |
| Nemns #470578 10 months ago |
@NightJack
I'm not SAYING that anyone who likes anthropomorphic animals is a furry, I'm just saying that the interest in the same kind of thing is there... Furry is not a fetish or a kink, which is not to say that there's not a shit-ton of kinky fuckers in the furry community, but it's basically based on an interest in anthropomorphic animals... |
| Xuncu #470586 10 months ago |
<correction>
The point I'm trying to make is, that there is a fundamental difference between being the fan of a show, being in the furry fandom, and being what popular/internet culture THINKS furries do." |
| Anonymous #470587 10 months ago |
Enjoying the television program My Little Pony does not make one a furry.
Fapping to pony porn, however, does. Subtle Difference. |
| Chance #470596 10 months ago |
I do agree with Nemns on that point. The furry community does have some very strange individuals. That also means that not all people are into it sexualy |
| Chance #470598 10 months ago |
I do agree with Nemns on that point. The furry community does have some very strange individuals. That also means that not all people are into it sexually |
| Sonlir #470602 10 months ago |
@Nemns
Actually if anything the main characters being my little ponies probably put off more than one potential fan. @phallen1 Gay furries? Unherd of. |
| Chance #470607 10 months ago |
Dat double post |
| Nemns #470610 10 months ago |
@Anon564 I agree. But the focus on this particular cult following is the ponies themselves. Not many of us seem to have the same affection toward the previous generations of MLP... |
| Nemns #470627 10 months ago |
@Sonlir
I'm sure it has. Some people just don't like ponies! Crazy, huh? |
| Anonymous #470633 10 months ago |
#470521 Not Everyone uses "Love and Tolerate." It's not a prerequisite.
#470388 Sir, I agree with you. Referring to us as furries shows an astronomical level of ignorance. And now, to sum things up with definitions! Furries: People who are aroused by animals, or animal-like-beings. Bronies: Male fans of the program "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic". |
| NightJack #470635 10 months ago |
@Nemns You don't get what I'm saying, In all of those show I was talking about, I don't care what they are, I like them for personality of the characters and the story, they can all be nothing more then shapeless lumps of color for all I care. |
| Nemns #470658 10 months ago |
@NightJack
That's all fine and dandy for you, but you can't say from a group standpoint that the main characters being ponies doesn't have a substantial amount of influence on the fan base... |
| Calbeck #470661 10 months ago |
Lotsa folks trotting out the same blather about furries as usual.
Nothing to see here but a few bronies hating on a lot of other bronies, for liking things they don't like. |
| TryHard #470666 10 months ago |
>THIS ENTIRE THREAD |
| NightJack #470674 10 months ago |
I'm not, I'm just saying that made it hard for me to become a fan because of a incident when I was young that had to do with a horse, so I'm not a from being a furry. |
| Sonlir #470686 10 months ago |
@Nemns
So people capable of ignoring the fact the main characters are a bunch of pastel equines (made by hasbro no less) and come to like the show are automatically furries in denial? Even if so the cause is somewhat just. Furries tend to leave a reeking mess on everything they get a good grip on and we just don't want to see MLP turning into a yiff fest. |
| Nemns #470711 10 months ago |
@NightJack
... I could totally say something inappropriate and immature about that, but I won't. I'm not really sure what a childhood incident with a horse has to do with anything we've said so far. ... where'd I put my Dilaudids... |
| bersl2 #470718 10 months ago |
Most of you are missing the point: this will cause an epic shitstorm. I don't care you are one of us, like us, tolerate us, hate us, or don't give a fuck about us, but I'm sure enough of you enjoy a good drama bombing, which is exactly what this is. |
| Nemns #470730 10 months ago |
@Sonlir
No..? No... I'm totally with on not wanting to see this turn into a yiff fest... I'm trying to talk in shades of gray as best I can here. All I mean is that the fundamental interests of furries and bronies are very similar... "BRONIES," "PONIES," you can't say it's not a lot about the ponies... D; |
| Nemns #470740 10 months ago |
@bersl2
Why do all debate discussions get labeled as 'drama'? We're just discussing shit... |
| Nemns #470807 10 months ago |
Final point, and I'll shut up...
A fan base based on a cartoon about cute, brightly colored talking ponies is going to get raised eyebrows from the "mundanes", to borrow a furry term, based on that fact alone. The more you scream about not being sexually attracted to ponies or being in any way related to the furry fandom, the more outsiders are going to focus on those aspects where they do exist. If you just let people talk their shit, they'll eventually move on with their lives and the only ones that remain will be the people who actually see the fan base for what it is... This is why the furry fandom continues to get negative coverage... tl;dr - DON'T FEED THE PARASPRITES. |
| Anonymous #471121 10 months ago |
^shut up with your "tl;dr" and "trolling" shit, fag.
y'all are pussies who watch a little girls show about ponies. FACE IT. |
| Anonymous #471790 10 months ago |
^What If you are a girl? I am actually curious! I mean, the show WAS originally aimed at girls |
| Anonymous #471802 10 months ago |
@NightJack
Hi, It's Anon #470521 here, I wasn't actually talking to you, I'm just saying that generally Bronies and Pega-sisters will spout this all the bloody time and never actually practice the message themselves. Thank you for the comment though! |
| kaoskirin #471992 10 months ago |
reffering to 633 a furry is just anyone who enjoys drawing animals or likes them (im not talking about arousal or love) its an extremely broad term but if you want to go by shitty news reports and the overly common troll perspective which almost everyone uses for this then be my guest.
fyi only the freaks of the community say that they are actually an animal instead of a "human" and try to live that out. btw in the broad actual term you all are furries. its a show about freakin ponies and you like it in fact most of you draw them. |
| Anonymous #472081 10 months ago |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54DyvS01RMY
Watch this video |
| KendraKirai #472127 10 months ago |
Y'know, it's funny. I took it to mean that a lot of furries are in denial over liking ponies. Most of you seem to take it that bronies are in denial over being furries.
Really honestly not going anywhere with this, I just think it's funny. Like that stupid 'which way is the ballerina spinning' ad, or those optical illusions things where you could see a candlestick or two faces thing first. |
| kaoskirin #472177 10 months ago |
anon i honestly dont give a shit i was merely correcting a term that is often used incorrectly thanks to bullshit media
kendra: >< i hate those ad they make me think way to much on whats what |
| Anonymous #472771 10 months ago |
all my trollface. |
| Jimmytrius #473305 10 months ago |
Bronies =/= Furries
I mean, a Brony can be a Furry, but being a Brony DOES NOT make you a Furry :$ |
| Anonymous #473791 10 months ago |
Guys... This isn't the real banner, it's butchered, and doesn't show everything. The real one is over there >>59870 |
| Anonymous #474088 10 months ago |
It's like nobody is capable of actually going to the artist's page and uploading the original image: http://d.facdn.net/art/dotrook/1316320708.dotrook_bronyaffninity.png |
| Alahmnat #474469 10 months ago |
The really, truly hilarious thing about this banner is that it makes both furries and bronies rage at how much the other group sucks.
Oh ponibooru, if only you knew FurAffinity hates you as much as you hate them... (But seriously, grow the fuck up, ppl.) |