After the first porn game on Steam thread just now I think I'm done with being a furry. Like, the art is cool but uh...
I figured there'd be a problem with zoophiles in this fandom, but other than the fact that a lot of y'all are transparently thirsty for animal dick -- albeit one on an otherwise human body -- that was actually pretty rare.
No, the real issue, one I can no longer ignore, is the blatant and unsettlingly common sexualization of either ambiguously or explicitly child-coded characters. It's the same shit the weebs do. Y'all draw characters that have the body of a young teen but apparently just calling them a "twink" or a "femboy" excuses that? You draw one character that's obviously an adult fucking one that really isn't, and you just call that "size difference"? It's not hard to draw characters that look like adults. This is an intentional thing. I don't think the majority of furry art is like this, but a lot of it is, to the extend that if I unfollowed any artists that had ever drawn anything problematic, I don't think I'd have any artists left. And I think that's what I'm going to do. And when you find the alt accounts and especially the alt alt accounts, even artists you respect start to seem pretty fucking gross. At first I was naive; I thought there were just bad artists that drew problematic things and that was it. But in fact, it's more like most artists eventually stop caring about anything as long as it pays. There are even today furry artists that have drawn blatant child porn and are not only still extremely popular, but have a lot of people defending them. And that's not even talking about the amount of sexual predators in this fandom. When I first started being a furry I was a teenager myself I just ignored all this, but as I've gotten older my standards have gotten higher and I don't want to participate in this fandom any more.
I know I said I didn't post in the discord because I didn't have anything to contribute, but not having anything to contribute has never stopped me from posting before. The real reason is because I can still remember the FurryGAF discord. I joined it once; literally the first thing I see is someone posting shota pics. When people complain that this kind of thing is why they are losing members, they just say "Keep calm and be a shotacon!" so I leave. And when I joined the FurryERA discord, what did I see? That person is not only a member, but one of the admins. So I have no reason to think the FurryERA discord won't be fucking gross too.
So anyway, goodbye.
oh and fwiw, Myke, your art has improved a lot.