I wouldn't call myself a furry, but if I had the choice to hang out with a group of depressed anime characters in front of a mirror or hang out with a group of fun, uplifting, and energetic furry people, I'm gonna hang with the furries. Edit: 3 years later. Still wouldn't call myself a furry. However, I've kinda left VRChat, and I am still great friends with a ton of furries I met on there, some of them being the closed friends I have. I'm hoping I can meet them one day, despite their interests being a little strange to me, I couldn't be happier for them. If that makes me a furry, then so be it. I couldn't ask for better friends.
People may run up to you and call you every slur they can think of if you're a vrc furry, but I swear that's half the fun when they get so angry if you don't take it seriously
That's my tactic too. Just turn the social manipulation back on them and kill them with kindness. Watching them rage when you're still laughing and having a good time is just priceless.
That's like the opposite of based, based means to dominate, which is integral to comedy. You can't be funny and an SJW, that's called being mad, just how the world works. Hardly any true comedian is actually "racist" anyways.
Life time furry, the community is full of fans of anthropomorphic animals of every kind, there are also artists, content creators, pro gamers, dancers, performers, musicians, you name it they exist, there was a negative stigma about furries and sex in their culture that for the longest time was buried and denied because there were so few members of the community who made it awful, here we are more than 30 years later and a majority of us just don't care anymore, I told a few people that "ok yes the furries are having all the sex and everyone else is jealous" and for the most part the stigma has faded away and we are enjoyed as the artists and creators that we are now, I personally just am a member of the community because they are among the best people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and being friends with, wouldn't change it for the world, good video by the way.
The furry community may have a strong sexual aspect, but it's not the focus. The focus is on creativity, support, and of course, floofy anthropomorphic animals!
@@caldercockatoo2234 Very true. It also helps that the community has sane, rational, and articulate spokesfurries like Uncle Kage who hold down "normal" jobs and can speak in complete sentences, and are dedicated to showing the world that furries are just like any other subculture--they're just people who have an interesting, if not exactly mainstream, hobby and get very enthusiastic about that hobby. Yes, IMHO Kage does get a little hostile at times, but on the other paw (pun intended), if I had to tell the mainstream news media sniffing around for scandals to boost their ratings that "no, we DON'T have sex in fursuits; no, we DON'T have sex with animals; and no, we DON'T masturbate with our favorite plushies" for the millionth time, I'd probably get more than a little hostile from time to time myself.
So actually I’ve had my greatest VR Chat experience in furry hub (I’m pretty new), I went there with a friend to ask about furries, and that was the first ‘real’ human interaction we had in the game and we left with a lot more understanding of the furry community. My friend completely changed his mind about furries, he was too harsh before. VR having the power to connect people like that really left me in awe that day.
@@RIOTModerato furries don’t just harass ppl there must be a reason they aren’t like the toxic meme ppl that go around bullying everyone cuz they think they are funny
Me and my friends usually end up in Furry Conference as a joke but that sh*t has a working piano and that ALMOST makes up for like 20 "very poor" furry avatars breaking my game
There's probably so many Furries in VR Chat because Fursuits cost a fortune to buy, and you get to do essentially the same thing, but better in VR Chat. (For reference, a Fursuit is about $3,000 at the low end depending on maker, and an Oculus Rift S can be as low as $200, but still allowing them to portray themselves as this anthro animal but not at the cost of your left leg)
Well in reality it might not be even 200 quid, if you still want the experience I took a psvr headset for 5 quid and a ps4 for 40 and even then I've done cheaper using a free laptop with a broken hinge.
@@iliketurtles50000 Yo a PS VR For 4 quid?? My man the bargain hunter out here, the only thing about PSVR Though, is I don't think you can play VR Chat on there. I might be wrong but idk, but if you already have an okay pc then it can be less than £200 for a good headset and you're away
@@GrepidYT the psvr was secondhand the rubber had petrified and it had a scratch mark across the front. Yes you can play vrchat on it but I prefer pc due to the fact that my eyesight is awful and glasses aren't very good with vr. I would get a headset for my pc but I have a pretty awful gpu, a gt 1030, barely enough to run 60 fps on most games let alone actual vr. And its really only my gpu that's the issue, it bottlenecks my ryzen 5 3600 absurdly to the point where I struggle get its usage above 20 percent
I've been part of some communities for a while, and probably one of the most common things that people get wrong about furries is that "aLl FuRrIeS aRe ZoOpHiLeS." This is heavily blown out of proportion, as only a percentage of a percentage of the furry fandom does that. In fact, many furries look down on zoophiles. Honestly, take some time and get to know a community a little, and you'd be surprised how friendly and overall fun it can be. The vast majority of them are just people who like to hang out and chat with people who share similar interests. They've accepted the whole UwU and OwO thing as basically a meme at this point (I have yet to encounter a furry who unironically says those in a conversation). Oh and don't get me started on the artwork and animations some of them can pull off. Overall, the fandom is vastly misunderstood, and is usually heavily bullied by outsiders who get their information from other outsiders rather than actually checking and doing research themselves.
back in the day someone was outed to strapping a pup to a wooden log grabbing a bat and using it to slide in until the pup started spazing out like someone with epilepsy, i can guarantee no-one especially a majority of furries would have accepted those actions and im sure a lot of people furry and non furry lead a campaign to put taht sick fuck behind bars
The history of Furries in VR Chat goes further, and it's NOTHING like it is today. It was basically a hidden gem in VRChat in the early days, and the Furry Hub has an interesting history as well
@@bonkuwu3584 A 50/50 mix of some of the best people I've ever met and perhaps some of the worst. Their community helped me through a lot of heartache, like when I was in the hospital due to an injury my furry friends were some of the first to reach out to me besides my irl circles, and they also encouraged me to pursue my interest in art. But I'd be lying if I said it didn't cause some, from either unwanted flirting, drawing my characters in sexual positions against my consent, or starting arguments with me over minute things. I don't hate furries, not at all. I defend the fandom. But I feel like sometimes people forget it isn't problem free
I've been a furry for years and been on vrchat sence early 2017 and with my experience most pepole and kind and cool to hangout with but some do take it a bit to much in the community. But everytime i join a world i get bullied or targeted for being a furry :/
People tend to target others that they don't understand or are afraid of. Sadly, there's nothing you can do about it and people will always ostracize you for being different even though you aren't causing any harm to anyone. For instace there've been several times I've seen furries get votekicked or crashed simply because they're a furry which is kinda fucked up. I hope it gets better for y'all, it sucks that people come after you for something you enjoy. (And this is coming from someone who has a literal phobia of furries lmao)
Part of that is that there are always wackjobs in any subculture that take things way too seriously, and part of it is the stigma against furries as sexual deviants. Fortunately, the stigma is slowly fading, but some people just can't be confused by the truth once their minds are made up.
When I had a furry avatar on Roblox exactly 1 year ago (I wasn’t a furry at the time), I got called a furry repeatedly and got called several slurs. Now nobody really cares anymore
Probably because a lot of furries are crazy smart if you find one that does modeling they can probably set you up with a really good one that isn't furry related or optimize it for you.
@@FoxInnaHat Yeah. There is a saying: furries run the internet and the IT industry. I've even seen it mentioned about the aviation industry too. Have no doubt there are plenty of Furries running massive companies.
Furry here, learning Unity just for furry memes in VR chat. also, good video! You haven't even begun to see the crazy shit Furries can get Unity to do with VR chat
Man I've been a "closeted" furry for like 3 years then finally I decided to just accept what I like and who I am around the begining of this year. It's been great so far, haven't run into any bullies yet. I hope that means people are just finally starting to mature these days? 😅
That was a great video. As a furry myself, I'm really proud of the hard work and effort you made into this video. BTW my favorite part that had me cracking up was 8:40
For me furries are not even a bother. interesting to have around, let them be who they want, as long as they don't go farther than a model XD. i have a furry model because there isn't any good Normal Models, and furry ones seem to be the best you can get to something not entire E-Girl or E-Boy now these days
@@caldercockatoo2234 personally I see it as a sign of someone taking the fandom too seriously. I equate it as the same thing as a kid "coming out" to their parents as a furry, which is a genuine thing that happens. I think the mods on r/furry had to start telling people that 'its just a fandom' because there was an influx of kids trying to ask for advice on how to come out as a furry community member
@@julien7337 Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if they were referring to fursuits or not. I originally thought they did, but maybe they meant something else. If they did mean something else like you thought, then I agree.
This seems like a really odd interview/really odd answers coming from the folks you asked questions to, and it really puts in perspective what Gen Z culture thinks furries are, versus what people who have been in the fandom for 10+ years feel. For me, the definition of a furry is: Someone who likes anthropomorphic animals in art. A fursona is a representation of yourself as an anthro animal. Someone can have multiple fursonas to represent different aspects of them, but usually they have one core fursona. Not all furries are creatives/artists, some just enjoy the art. Some furries wear fursuits. The fursuits can either be of their fursona, or just of a character design of an anthro animal that they think looks neat! It's like having a VRChat avatar in real life. Fursuits are extremely expensive, with heads alone usually costing more than $1000 from most makers. There is definitely a lewd part to the fandom and there's no denying that, but it isn't what the fandom is about as a whole. (Additionally, the lewd part of the fandom should absolutely be kept away from minors.) As a "fandom", furry is interesting because there's no one media that everyone bases their creations off of. Furry fandom is self-sustaining, creating its own content, with all money going to and from artists within the fandom itself. There is no corporate presence. While many furries like Disney's talking animal movies for example, it isn't a fandom based on Disney alone. Furry is honestly more like punk: DIY-based, community-based, and promoting the creativity of the community and rejection of the norm. Punk also lends itself into the queer community. A huge part of furry fandom is that it is inherently queer. According to studies like Furscience and others, only 20% of the fandom identifies as exclusively straight/cis. Furry fandom is all about expressing yourself in ways that feel true to who you are on the inside in a welcoming environment, which encourages and attracts a lot of LGBT folks. The need to express a form of yourself differently from how you look in real life also hits home with a lot of the queer community. This also goes as far as expressing yourself differently in how you act; a large group of furries feel like they can be more outgoing and social when in fursuit. There are of course a few bad apples that spoil the bunch, but the majority of the fandom condemns them, and it's infinitely frustrating that these folks seem to be getting the most attention. Almost all conventions are working to make sure the unsavory folks know they are not welcome here. Overall, I'd say the takes of the people interviewed in this video are kinda surface-level at best. They may be young, new to the fandom, or have their only furry experience be on VRchat. Weirdly, I find way more hate for furries on VRchat and tiktok, places more dominated by younger folks, than on twitter, at actual conventions, or just in day to day life irl. There's so much more to the fandom, even within VRchat itself! I promise there's much nicer furs out there within the VR world. Definitely try to visit when a VR con is going on!
I'm thinking there's more furry hate on TikTok and VRChat because a lot of the players are relatively young, kids just tend to be edgy at those ages. Some also like to bully people but people are kind of running out of things to bully, for example 10 years ago people still made fun of LGBT people to an extent and nerds were also still somewhat uncool back then, you are rightfully considered a bigot now if you bully and LGBT person and nerds are considered cool now so edgy kids have to look for more out there things to bully. Also, they are just immature, college was a lot less annoying than high school for me. People would mock people over stupid things in high school (and god forbid middle school) but by college nobody cares anymore. I'm now openly a furry to some of my non-furry friends who are in their mid 20's and nobody cares about it.
As part of the furry community when the stigma was around you can't go anywhere online without getting harassed or bullied, as of late a lot more people are accepting the community and it makes socializing way easier, I myself am a Furry artist and just love the art that the community makes, not to mention how open people are for people with something special like disabilities or so on. Overall I don't think I will be leaving the community any time soon.
A large part of that is because of the old stereotype of furries being into bestiality, sex in fursuits, and screwing plushies because of some really bad PR back in the "good old days" when furry fandom was branching off from SF/Fantasy fandom in general. Fortunately, 98% of the furry crowd is just there to have a good time, enjoy some nice art by folks like Monica Livingston or Max the Black Rabbit or stories by writers like Royce Day, and have been good examples of what furry fandom is REALLY about so that the stigma is slowly fading, just as how RPG players STILL have to explain how D&D is not either Satanic, won't drive you insane and make you run off into the sewers like in that stupid movie, and doesn't make you think you're Aragorn from Lord of the Rings.
Can I just say that Twice, I am proud of you for allowing yourself to understand the fandom, because that’s truly the breaking point of getting to the bottom of what the furry fandom is and what it’s not, People outside the fandom spread rumors countlessly about how the fandom is and isn’t, due to them being sheltered from what the fandom actually is, to a lot of people it is first incredibly overwhelming at first but the more you open yourself up to it you get used to the feeling and it gives of the feeling of powerful affection, because that’s truly what it’s like, all I can say is your (cousin I think?) was pretty harsh but he is younger and obviously not as understanding as you are (no offense) I know he was joking I’m sure, but the “burn all furries” is really harsh to any furry that hears something like that, what normie outsiders say about the fandom is just a big GIANT echo chamber.
Furry artist over here. I do a lot of VR chat on the side, so I just wanted to add a little bit to the conversation. I tend to mirror dwell with my friends when not playing a game or soemthing. Personally it helps me for two reasons: one: the furry avatars I use are really complex and it gives me practice learning the different emotes through different hand positioning. That's actually the second reason for mirror dwelling. When hanging with friends to see and interact with others a little more comfortably. Now to talk about the fursonas and things, do note I'm biased. Although it tends to be a way to express one's self in a safe environment. No fear of being seen as too edgy or constrained by how you look in real life. That being said I know that's not for everyone but I just figured it was worth adding.
That moderator im the video was my bud flato. Me and him were staff in ftac, and I remember he was a very active and trained admin. Getting harrassed there is an everyday thing, but it was fun being able to meet new people on duty. If you see admins in furry talk in chill,dont bully them. Staff go through a lot while moderating, and respecting them will mean a lot to them 👌
For me I finally accepted being a furry. It took 3 months for me to have the courage to accept it because all the hate I had on myself. I hated myself so much just by thought of me being a furry. Hopefully in the future I have more confidence to show myself more.
I've been a part of the community (on and off) for more or less 6-7 years at this point. I joined mostly due to some movies and TV shows I watched as a kid combined with a sudden interest for drawing and animating. I left for a while, thinking that people wouldn't respect me, or want to be friends with me if they knew I was a furry. However, my interest for drawing, animating, and 3D modeling hadn't gone away. Eventually I realized good friends would judge me based on my character, not my interests and I came back. In the community, there will always be people that do strange things like make animal noises, but I've seen far more people who are just there to talk about normal, though often nerdy, things like game design, drawing, animating, programming, tech, etc. And that is my personal reason for using VR Chat, I want to meet and talk to people with similar interests. I may look different from what I am in real life, but I'm still very much just the same regular dude I am outside of VR. The one thing in your video I want to add on to is the snowflake argument. Though I personally can laugh off furry haters, there are more than enough people in the community with mental illnesses and depression. For a lot of them, insults hit way too close to home, especially if they're already being bullied in real life by people that threaten and commit acts of violence, or even just degrade them socially. I've been there and it isn't fun. That being said, there are of course also people that get unreasonably upset at others for saying negative things about furries, even if they are just meming. But, those cases are far less frequent and more often than not, people are quite justified in being upset. Anyways I've rambled on for far too long, so if anyone actually reads this, thank you!
1. The Virtuefurence Map is actually 1:1 based on the Estrel Hotel in Berlin, which has held the annual furry convention "Eurofurence" since 2014. And that's just one of the numerous major furry conventions around the world. 2. The most popular definition of furry/furry fandom consists of two elements: a) people fond of anthropormorphic animals, and b) acknowledging the presence of the fandom and consider themselves as parts of the community. Doesn't matter if you have fursonas, furry avatars, fursuits or else as they're not obligatory for being furries. 3. Just like human societies, the furry community is composed of all kinds of personalities and traits, you may see artists, nerds, gamers, anime/sci-fi fans, roleplayers, scientists, occasionally, while cringy ones, trolls, mental diseased patients, horny furries do exist as well, and the fandom generally holds greater acceptance towards LGBTQ+ members, avoid holding specific stereotypes is advised. 4. The fandom offers chances to express yourself with all kinds of ways, fursonas, avatars, fursuits, commissioned drawings, literature, musics are just common medium. By the way numerous content creators have benefited from taking commissions from furries and even make ends meet around the world. Sorry for my nerdiness but the video doesn't seem to reach the core of what furries are. Hope this helps.
They guy with a frying pan around 1:55 really was looking good lol Thanks so much for uploading this! That was me when I think I just got my vrheadset! That was so awesome to see it again after so long! If you ever want to hang, the names Lostwolf527!
As a furry, I find the furry community to be one of the most polarizing communities, and it can be tough to get into the eye of the hurricane that is the community.
So basically the simplest way to put it is that Furries are an art subculture. Specifically they like and appreciate Anthromorphic media and artwork. There are other art movements out there as well for example impressionists or surrealists, really there is no difference it's just a different style of art! "Anthromorphic" art is any media that has animal characters with human like traits, they could walk on two legs, wear clothes, and talk. Movies like "Wolfwalkers" and "The Cat Returns" are good examples.
Any furry I've ever met has always been super chill and a cool person to hang around. I feel like because people target and troll them so much, a lot of them have learnt just to not give a damn about anyone's opinion of them. They always respect others even though so many people disrespect them.
@@TwiceVR dont thank me, i should be thanking you for adding flavour to my day. seriously, i get some serious giggles out of these, and im sure many other people do. you brighten everyones day up with these. dont stop pushing man, really an inspiration.
Such a weird amount of my friends between middle and high school turned out to be furries to the point that I’m like 90% sure all my other friends suspect me of being a furry, but my experience seems to be exactly what the one guy at the end said. About half of them are just laid back and fucking hilarious and the other half are some combination of sjw and/or openly sexual deviant. There’s like a divide between the two types and they rarely seem to associate with one another
I've been one for years and it goes really deep there's different branches of the community where some make and sell characters, theres some that like wearing suits, some who don't or have no interest in it, and a whole lot more.. I have a lot of furry characters and when in vrchat I usually use a dragon avatar I found. Most people want to use their fursonas in vrchat but since it's so hard to make/really expensive to commission, most people don't.. However I have seen some people with custom avatars of their sonas and they're pretty cool Also I'm aware I'm like 2 months late but I just recently found your channel and you seem pretty cool
As a commission artist I had a lot of experience with furries and they generally are really nice and approachable people. Many furries' fursonas and avatars of choice do look off-putting in my eyes to varying degrees, but I won't just judge people based on a character or general look they personally enjoy. It's stupid how people still, in this day and age, are very prone to hating on others just for liking something they don't.
The furry community is the most accepting tbh & tbh is like any other fandom. There is love towards it and there are people that dont understand so they hate on it
Heya!! The reason why furries (like myself) get offended easily is because of the amount of hate we actually get if someone is just being playful and talking shit idc about that sometimes they have some funny things to say I can take a joke but what gets me is when we are told to kys and actually told really hurtfull things ive been a furry for around 5 years and most days when I interact with the fandom there is always at least one person hating and we are always so hesitant of other people is because if someone isn’t a furry we are use to people just talking shit to us so we just expect it I’m glad you made this video!! I hate peoples that say we can’t take a joke we can take a joke but when you’re just saying kys that’s not really a joke and it just gets old after a while hope this informed you a little on some of the reasons most furries are hesitant and scared to talk to non furries :3 you definitely got the wrong end of the stick tho XD some of them people where so creepy!!
Awesome video and topic! You should interview the transformers community in VRChat sometime in the future. It’s a fun community with friendly and nice people and you’d love it!
I like that you’re exploring new worlds and looking at new groups and cultures of people. I consider myself a furry as well, I like when people are genuinely interested and want to know things.
As a fellow furry, I can say that the furry community on VR chat is basically just like the ones that you'll probably see when going to normal Furry conventions or communities. The people that you meet there are super nice and calm compared to the edgy 13-year-olds that try their best to scare you with their demon fursonas. Overall, I say that everyone should at least befriend a furry, mainly because the communities are super chill and their overall just some cool people to be around.
I'm a free I got into it about 16 years ago they help me in a way that I didn't think anybody else could I have anxiety disorder and watching the videos of them at conventions got me strong enough to actually go and take part of it since then you're like one big family always willing to help you out
I know this is way off topic from this video but I love your content and I'm so glad I found your channel and your why I started making vr content thank you have a good day twice
11:00 i completely agree with this. Some furries get way too deep into it and i think it can be unhealthy to forget you're only just human. It's okay to be self aware and be detached, i think taking things lightly help not taking at heart when people are being butth*les. I think it's important to not let things hurt or offend you too easily, especially if it's something people don't have the patience to understand. Also make fun of yourself! That's one of the best ways not to get (emotionally) hurt, take all that negativity as a joke
actually I took a college course about furries so I know about the historey and lore of furries. It all started when President John F. Kennedy authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. It's not common knowledge, however the bay of pig was in fact a bay of pig people. These people were pretending to be strange humanoid pig creatures. To kennedy's surprise however, the pig people were much stronger than anticipated. During a second attempt at invading the bay of pigs in 1963, the military brought bacon to fend off the pig people. Unfortunately their intel was wrong as the pig people had transformed into wolf people. The bacon backfired and they were slaughtered... The enemy wolf people were dubbed "Furries." Everyone feared the furries. But eventually people learned to coexist and they formed their own island nation where furries prosper and yes you guessed it, play Vrchat. It is estimated that 69% of vrchat players are located in the furry island nation of Furrytopia.
The green Rex at 9:15 most likely said no to the questions as we get a lot of people, especially in furhub, who come in to troll and ask extremely inappropriate questions. They often start with an innocent "hey can we ask you some questions about furries?" so a safe bet if you just want to chill is to say no and ignore or block them, unfortunately. Less popular furry worlds tend to be free of those trolls
I would like to point out on the intro that when they walked over to the cat there was specifically Minecraft sounds when you walk on grass. I can recognize any Minecraft sound used in something that isn't necessarily related to Minecraft, I just recognize it. ✨🦊👍
I really appreciate you showing how great the furry community is, as a furry myself I always want to help and support the furry community. Thank you for doing your part and keep it up with the amazing content! :3
Your definition of what a furry is was spot on. I have never seen anyone outside the fandom ever get it right on as you did. Now you have more spastic specialized definitions for each individual person of why they are in the fandom and what the fandom is to them their selfs. My spastic reason is that I like dressing up as animals in what we call within the fandom as a fursuit. A fursuit is just a costume of a animal that a furry wears. As far as I am aware of I have more fursuits than any other furry has. From just heads to a full fursuit which covers my entire body in the costume I own over 70 fursuits. Many furries like collecting artwork where I like collecting fursuits.i happen to like what is called a realistic fursuit which just means that the costume is more a realistic stile compared to a toon fursuit which is on the toony side of the spectrum. Most furries don't own any form of a fursuit for many reasons. The most common reason is that they just have no desire to own one. Then there are the furs who just can't afford one as fursuits can be extremely expensive as its not unknown for a fursuit to run over ten thousand dollars. Most fursuits run from as low as five hundred dollars just for a head to into being three or four thousand dollars for a nice full fursuit. Another reason that a fur may.not want to own a fursuit is that they are extremely hot to wear. A fursuit can be 20 degrees or even hotter than the room that they are standing in and even worse outside in direct sunlight.
Oh, forgot to comment that "Fursona", like "Steamsona" in the SteamPunk crowd, is derived from "Persona", as in the personal character/fictional alter-ego that a given person likes to play as. Both terms are portmanteaus of their respective fandoms + the word persona, as in "Fursona" = "FURry perSONA" or "Steamsona" = "STEAMpunk perSONA". This can even be extended to VTubers' "Twitchsonas", or online roleplayers' "websonas", or... Well, I think you get the idea, nyao. -_^
i became a part of the furry fandom in 2018 im starting to slip a bit out of the fandom, but i still call myself a furry since i draw my oc's from time time and still love anthropomorphic animals, im really glad that when i joined the first thing i saw was the nice and cute part, i found a really cute video of a fursuit of a dutch angel dragon and i fell in love with it and made my own fursona that ended up being a dutchie(dutch angel dragon) since its the first interaction i had with the fandom and they're really cute. alot of furries draw, but not all of them and there arent actually that many furries that have a fursuit compared to how big the community is. thanks for making this video and putting us in a good light, it makes me and alot others very hapy!
Honestly, just from a personal standing, the furry community has been one of the nicest, most caring, and all around wholesome (except for the... well...) and generally accepting to everyone around them. As a furry myself, sure maybe it's just me being one of those "My bad bitches can do no wrong, they are the baddest of bitches and i love them" people but, no it just- well, I quite adore the furry fandom/community.
See when UA-camrs do this my brain is like “Ok what dumb crap are they going to say, I know they aren’t a furry” Watches whole thing impress of there reaction “U earn my respect” But yes most people do bully furries a lot, but I ignore them, bc if I can be myself and who I want to be on vr, then idc what everyone else thinks
The furry fandom itself has many many contacts. Many of them being digital artists. Word of advice, you have an idea that requires a digital artist, hire a few furries.
The thing I love about furries in general other than their wholesomeness is the creatively they radiate, fun fact roughly 85% of all published Vrchat worlds are made by furries. Fursonas are a form of self identifiers mine is a changeling(like the starwars species) who is mostly a feline specifically a cheetah snow leopard saber cat tribred. Self expression is key in the fandom. Also I cant deny it, we are fucking blursed at times.
Nice video, surprisingly. Respect for being adequate bro, and, as you wanted, my comment on your definition: it's alright, though there should be a mention that furry can mean the antropomorphic animal character itself too! Some people tend not to know about this.
I wouldn't call myself a furry, but if I had the choice to hang out with a group of depressed anime characters in front of a mirror or hang out with a group of fun, uplifting, and energetic furry people, I'm gonna hang with the furries.
Edit: 3 years later. Still wouldn't call myself a furry. However, I've kinda left VRChat, and I am still great friends with a ton of furries I met on there, some of them being the closed friends I have.
I'm hoping I can meet them one day, despite their interests being a little strange to me, I couldn't be happier for them. If that makes me a furry, then so be it. I couldn't ask for better friends.
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furrys are very accepting
I would choose none
I'm 3/10 furry
Exactly this but I'm a furry
People may run up to you and call you every slur they can think of if you're a vrc furry, but I swear that's half the fun when they get so angry if you don't take it seriously
Not wrong
One of my favorite things to do is just see people getting mad at failing to get me mad
Actually, I think it's preety fun to troll people like that to make them angry and to lose their mind just so that you can see their reaction
@@drunkdogwithagun468 I love when that happens
That's my tactic too. Just turn the social manipulation back on them and kill them with kindness. Watching them rage when you're still laughing and having a good time is just priceless.
Furry community by far is still the best creators on VRC for optimized models.
Blows my mind at every event how crazy the avatars are so customized
what about the n64 model porting community
that's true
the biggest thing furries are good at. making art and models lol
Yea a lot of furry avatars I wore for the video had a bunch of customizability, it was pretty cool
very artsy community
I personally agree that ducks are dope.
geese better
I genuinely wonder which would win a goose or a duck.
A good point@That Irish Lad ill have to consider that.
Yeah same here. No bias totally...
@@mimi2 Yes absolutely no bias whatsoever...
"If you want to bully someone, bully to Racist"
Yo. That's pretty based. You dropped this W.
Frfr
racist people are actually funny though.
@@catosicarius3368 tf is wrong with u
@@catosicarius3368 They are big funny
That's like the opposite of based, based means to dominate, which is integral to comedy. You can't be funny and an SJW, that's called being mad, just how the world works. Hardly any true comedian is actually "racist" anyways.
I love VRChat because it's one of the few places on the internet where most people won't care that I'm a furry
Yeah honestly, it’s one of the 2 places im open about it
@@bunnybomb4149 what's the other place?
Same here, it’s fun to be myself somewhere
my guy you have a nice pfp and banner even though you have 22, very nicep
@@bunnybomb4149 reddit is nice to furries as long as you stay in the right subreddits
Life time furry, the community is full of fans of anthropomorphic animals of every kind, there are also artists, content creators, pro gamers, dancers, performers, musicians, you name it they exist, there was a negative stigma about furries and sex in their culture that for the longest time was buried and denied because there were so few members of the community who made it awful, here we are more than 30 years later and a majority of us just don't care anymore, I told a few people that "ok yes the furries are having all the sex and everyone else is jealous" and for the most part the stigma has faded away and we are enjoyed as the artists and creators that we are now, I personally just am a member of the community because they are among the best people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and being friends with, wouldn't change it for the world, good video by the way.
Thanks for your input! 😊
@@TwiceVR you're welcome, any time
The furry community may have a strong sexual aspect, but it's not the focus. The focus is on creativity, support, and of course, floofy anthropomorphic animals!
@@caldercockatoo2234 indeed.
@@caldercockatoo2234 Very true. It also helps that the community has sane, rational, and articulate spokesfurries like Uncle Kage who hold down "normal" jobs and can speak in complete sentences, and are dedicated to showing the world that furries are just like any other subculture--they're just people who have an interesting, if not exactly mainstream, hobby and get very enthusiastic about that hobby. Yes, IMHO Kage does get a little hostile at times, but on the other paw (pun intended), if I had to tell the mainstream news media sniffing around for scandals to boost their ratings that "no, we DON'T have sex in fursuits; no, we DON'T have sex with animals; and no, we DON'T masturbate with our favorite plushies" for the millionth time, I'd probably get more than a little hostile from time to time myself.
in my experience. the furry community is the most loving and caring community of them all.
@Smiled so which community is?
Pull the other one!
@Smiled cap
@💚Drew the dutch angel dragon floof💚 :D
@Smiled its true we are very kind to people unless the person is a bitch
So actually I’ve had my greatest VR Chat experience in furry hub (I’m pretty new), I went there with a friend to ask about furries, and that was the first ‘real’ human interaction we had in the game and we left with a lot more understanding of the furry community. My friend completely changed his mind about furries, he was too harsh before. VR having the power to connect people like that really left me in awe that day.
Furries always harass me
@@RIOTModerato why?
@@randomfurryidiot9568 idk
@@RIOTModerato furries don’t just harass ppl there must be a reason they aren’t like the toxic meme ppl that go around bullying everyone cuz they think they are funny
@@phoenixluci475 they did to me
Me and my friends usually end up in Furry Conference as a joke but that sh*t has a working piano and that ALMOST makes up for like 20 "very poor" furry avatars breaking my game
It’s a dope ass piano
There's probably so many Furries in VR Chat because Fursuits cost a fortune to buy, and you get to do essentially the same thing, but better in VR Chat.
(For reference, a Fursuit is about $3,000 at the low end depending on maker, and an Oculus Rift S can be as low as $200, but still allowing them to portray themselves as this anthro animal but not at the cost of your left leg)
Well in reality it might not be even 200 quid, if you still want the experience I took a psvr headset for 5 quid and a ps4 for 40 and even then I've done cheaper using a free laptop with a broken hinge.
@@iliketurtles50000 Yo a PS VR For 4 quid?? My man the bargain hunter out here, the only thing about PSVR Though, is I don't think you can play VR Chat on there. I might be wrong but idk, but if you already have an okay pc then it can be less than £200 for a good headset and you're away
@@GrepidYT the psvr was secondhand the rubber had petrified and it had a scratch mark across the front.
Yes you can play vrchat on it but I prefer pc due to the fact that my eyesight is awful and glasses aren't very good with vr.
I would get a headset for my pc but I have a pretty awful gpu, a gt 1030, barely enough to run 60 fps on most games let alone actual vr. And its really only my gpu that's the issue, it bottlenecks my ryzen 5 3600 absurdly to the point where I struggle get its usage above 20 percent
you neglect to mention that custom furry avatars will probably cost the same or slightly less than a irl fursuit. so it's probably about the same
That’s just said if someone is paying 3,000 on a freaking suit that’s just sad
had so much fun helping out with this! keep up the good work!
You fit in perfectly with the muzzle
I've been part of some communities for a while, and probably one of the most common things that people get wrong about furries is that "aLl FuRrIeS aRe ZoOpHiLeS." This is heavily blown out of proportion, as only a percentage of a percentage of the furry fandom does that. In fact, many furries look down on zoophiles. Honestly, take some time and get to know a community a little, and you'd be surprised how friendly and overall fun it can be. The vast majority of them are just people who like to hang out and chat with people who share similar interests. They've accepted the whole UwU and OwO thing as basically a meme at this point (I have yet to encounter a furry who unironically says those in a conversation). Oh and don't get me started on the artwork and animations some of them can pull off.
Overall, the fandom is vastly misunderstood, and is usually heavily bullied by outsiders who get their information from other outsiders rather than actually checking and doing research themselves.
back in the day someone was outed to strapping a pup to a wooden log grabbing a bat and using it to slide in until the pup started spazing out like someone with epilepsy, i can guarantee no-one especially a majority of furries would have accepted those actions and im sure a lot of people furry and non furry lead a campaign to put taht sick fuck behind bars
It's also become a meme how so many furries are in tech that politicians can't insult us cuz we'd basically shut down the internet 😝🐾😻🦊🌏🎉
Can we just agree that this otter avatar is an absolute masterpiece? This looks so alive !
The history of Furries in VR Chat goes further, and it's NOTHING like it is today. It was basically a hidden gem in VRChat in the early days, and the Furry Hub has an interesting history as well
Oh cool
I wish to hear this history squek
Huh
Hey Ash it’s me ConsumerOfBeans, funny seeing you here
ngl but their avatars always look well-made and cared for, and the movements look better then most because there is no clipping
Everytime I watch a video like this it just makes me feel everyone had a better experience with the fandom than I ever did
What was your experience then?
@@bonkuwu3584 A 50/50 mix of some of the best people I've ever met and perhaps some of the worst. Their community helped me through a lot of heartache, like when I was in the hospital due to an injury my furry friends were some of the first to reach out to me besides my irl circles, and they also encouraged me to pursue my interest in art. But I'd be lying if I said it didn't cause some, from either unwanted flirting, drawing my characters in sexual positions against my consent, or starting arguments with me over minute things.
I don't hate furries, not at all. I defend the fandom. But I feel like sometimes people forget it isn't problem free
I've been a furry for years and been on vrchat sence early 2017 and with my experience most pepole and kind and cool to hangout with but some do take it a bit to much in the community. But everytime i join a world i get bullied or targeted for being a furry :/
People tend to target others that they don't understand or are afraid of. Sadly, there's nothing you can do about it and people will always ostracize you for being different even though you aren't causing any harm to anyone. For instace there've been several times I've seen furries get votekicked or crashed simply because they're a furry which is kinda fucked up. I hope it gets better for y'all, it sucks that people come after you for something you enjoy. (And this is coming from someone who has a literal phobia of furries lmao)
Part of that is that there are always wackjobs in any subculture that take things way too seriously, and part of it is the stigma against furries as sexual deviants. Fortunately, the stigma is slowly fading, but some people just can't be confused by the truth once their minds are made up.
When I had a furry avatar on Roblox exactly 1 year ago (I wasn’t a furry at the time), I got called a furry repeatedly and got called several slurs. Now nobody really cares anymore
9:20 homie so sick of being used for content for streamers and youtubers im proud of him.
8:53 that is so factual. They have the best full body support ever. Idk why.
Probably because a lot of furries are crazy smart if you find one that does modeling they can probably set you up with a really good one that isn't furry related or optimize it for you.
4/10 furries do programming or it or some other tech shit for a living
@@FoxInnaHat Yeah. There is a saying: furries run the internet and the IT industry. I've even seen it mentioned about the aviation industry too. Have no doubt there are plenty of Furries running massive companies.
Furry here, learning Unity just for furry memes in VR chat.
also, good video! You haven't even begun to see the crazy shit Furries can get Unity to do with VR chat
Man I've been a "closeted" furry for like 3 years then finally I decided to just accept what I like and who I am around the begining of this year. It's been great so far, haven't run into any bullies yet. I hope that means people are just finally starting to mature these days? 😅
That's good that you haven't run into any bullies! Keep being you
@@Lillylafrog Thank I will stay me! You stay you as well! ^ ^
@@axelfangurlie
Same!
Sadly, there will always be a bad batch of internet trolls, but I'm glad you haven't gotten bullied yet.
That was a great video. As a furry myself, I'm really proud of the hard work and effort you made into this video. BTW my favorite part that had me cracking up was 8:40
For me furries are not even a bother. interesting to have around, let them be who they want, as long as they don't go farther than a model XD. i have a furry model because there isn't any good Normal Models, and furry ones seem to be the best you can get to something not entire E-Girl or E-Boy now these days
What's wrong with going further than a model?
@@caldercockatoo2234 personally I see it as a sign of someone taking the fandom too seriously. I equate it as the same thing as a kid "coming out" to their parents as a furry, which is a genuine thing that happens. I think the mods on r/furry had to start telling people that 'its just a fandom' because there was an influx of kids trying to ask for advice on how to come out as a furry community member
@@julien7337 Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if they were referring to fursuits or not. I originally thought they did, but maybe they meant something else. If they did mean something else like you thought, then I agree.
@@caldercockatoo2234 Oh fursuits? Those are fine lol. I never had an issue with them
@@julien7337 Yeah, but that's what I thought the original commenter meant. Probably not though.
lmao weeb
that part where the 2 furries got mad at each other was fucking brilliant haha
This seems like a really odd interview/really odd answers coming from the folks you asked questions to, and it really puts in perspective what Gen Z culture thinks furries are, versus what people who have been in the fandom for 10+ years feel.
For me, the definition of a furry is: Someone who likes anthropomorphic animals in art.
A fursona is a representation of yourself as an anthro animal. Someone can have multiple fursonas to represent different aspects of them, but usually they have one core fursona.
Not all furries are creatives/artists, some just enjoy the art.
Some furries wear fursuits. The fursuits can either be of their fursona, or just of a character design of an anthro animal that they think looks neat! It's like having a VRChat avatar in real life. Fursuits are extremely expensive, with heads alone usually costing more than $1000 from most makers.
There is definitely a lewd part to the fandom and there's no denying that, but it isn't what the fandom is about as a whole. (Additionally, the lewd part of the fandom should absolutely be kept away from minors.)
As a "fandom", furry is interesting because there's no one media that everyone bases their creations off of. Furry fandom is self-sustaining, creating its own content, with all money going to and from artists within the fandom itself. There is no corporate presence. While many furries like Disney's talking animal movies for example, it isn't a fandom based on Disney alone. Furry is honestly more like punk: DIY-based, community-based, and promoting the creativity of the community and rejection of the norm. Punk also lends itself into the queer community.
A huge part of furry fandom is that it is inherently queer. According to studies like Furscience and others, only 20% of the fandom identifies as exclusively straight/cis. Furry fandom is all about expressing yourself in ways that feel true to who you are on the inside in a welcoming environment, which encourages and attracts a lot of LGBT folks. The need to express a form of yourself differently from how you look in real life also hits home with a lot of the queer community. This also goes as far as expressing yourself differently in how you act; a large group of furries feel like they can be more outgoing and social when in fursuit.
There are of course a few bad apples that spoil the bunch, but the majority of the fandom condemns them, and it's infinitely frustrating that these folks seem to be getting the most attention. Almost all conventions are working to make sure the unsavory folks know they are not welcome here.
Overall, I'd say the takes of the people interviewed in this video are kinda surface-level at best. They may be young, new to the fandom, or have their only furry experience be on VRchat. Weirdly, I find way more hate for furries on VRchat and tiktok, places more dominated by younger folks, than on twitter, at actual conventions, or just in day to day life irl. There's so much more to the fandom, even within VRchat itself! I promise there's much nicer furs out there within the VR world. Definitely try to visit when a VR con is going on!
You summarized the furry community beautifully man. Props to you for typing out what I couldn't. XD
wow i'm not reading all that. seethe.
That was a lot of words for a youtube comment, but I do agree with all the things that you said.
I'm thinking there's more furry hate on TikTok and VRChat because a lot of the players are relatively young, kids just tend to be edgy at those ages. Some also like to bully people but people are kind of running out of things to bully, for example 10 years ago people still made fun of LGBT people to an extent and nerds were also still somewhat uncool back then, you are rightfully considered a bigot now if you bully and LGBT person and nerds are considered cool now so edgy kids have to look for more out there things to bully.
Also, they are just immature, college was a lot less annoying than high school for me. People would mock people over stupid things in high school (and god forbid middle school) but by college nobody cares anymore. I'm now openly a furry to some of my non-furry friends who are in their mid 20's and nobody cares about it.
@@mattwolf7698 cope.
As part of the furry community when the stigma was around you can't go anywhere online without getting harassed or bullied, as of late a lot more people are accepting the community and it makes socializing way easier, I myself am a Furry artist and just love the art that the community makes, not to mention how open people are for people with something special like disabilities or so on. Overall I don't think I will be leaving the community any time soon.
A large part of that is because of the old stereotype of furries being into bestiality, sex in fursuits, and screwing plushies because of some really bad PR back in the "good old days" when furry fandom was branching off from SF/Fantasy fandom in general. Fortunately, 98% of the furry crowd is just there to have a good time, enjoy some nice art by folks like Monica Livingston or Max the Black Rabbit or stories by writers like Royce Day, and have been good examples of what furry fandom is REALLY about so that the stigma is slowly fading, just as how RPG players STILL have to explain how D&D is not either Satanic, won't drive you insane and make you run off into the sewers like in that stupid movie, and doesn't make you think you're Aragorn from Lord of the Rings.
I’m not accepting the community
@@CKeys333 good for you but may i say who asked?
@@rainy5079 your mom
@@CKeys333 thats why you over here liking your own comments go outside
Can I just say that Twice, I am proud of you for allowing yourself to understand the fandom, because that’s truly the breaking point of getting to the bottom of what the furry fandom is and what it’s not, People outside the fandom spread rumors countlessly about how the fandom is and isn’t, due to them being sheltered from what the fandom actually is, to a lot of people it is first incredibly overwhelming at first but the more you open yourself up to it you get used to the feeling and it gives of the feeling of powerful affection, because that’s truly what it’s like, all I can say is your (cousin I think?) was pretty harsh but he is younger and obviously not as understanding as you are (no offense) I know he was joking I’m sure, but the “burn all furries” is really harsh to any furry that hears something like that, what normie outsiders say about the fandom is just a big GIANT echo chamber.
Furry artist over here. I do a lot of VR chat on the side, so I just wanted to add a little bit to the conversation.
I tend to mirror dwell with my friends when not playing a game or soemthing. Personally it helps me for two reasons: one: the furry avatars I use are really complex and it gives me practice learning the different emotes through different hand positioning. That's actually the second reason for mirror dwelling. When hanging with friends to see and interact with others a little more comfortably.
Now to talk about the fursonas and things, do note I'm biased. Although it tends to be a way to express one's self in a safe environment. No fear of being seen as too edgy or constrained by how you look in real life. That being said I know that's not for everyone but I just figured it was worth adding.
That moderator im the video was my bud flato. Me and him were staff in ftac, and I remember he was a very active and trained admin. Getting harrassed there is an everyday thing, but it was fun being able to meet new people on duty. If you see admins in furry talk in chill,dont bully them. Staff go through a lot while moderating, and respecting them will mean a lot to them 👌
they do it for free
sup
For me I finally accepted being a furry. It took 3 months for me to have the courage to accept it because all the hate I had on myself. I hated myself so much just by thought of me being a furry. Hopefully in the future I have more confidence to show myself more.
I feel this. It's hard being yourself sometimes.
"be a bully to racism" made me actually sit back in my chair like, wow.... that's deep.
6:52 that "👍sure👍" was soooo cute 🥰
I've been a part of the community (on and off) for more or less 6-7 years at this point. I joined mostly due to some movies and TV shows I watched as a kid combined with a sudden interest for drawing and animating. I left for a while, thinking that people wouldn't respect me, or want to be friends with me if they knew I was a furry. However, my interest for drawing, animating, and 3D modeling hadn't gone away. Eventually I realized good friends would judge me based on my character, not my interests and I came back. In the community, there will always be people that do strange things like make animal noises, but I've seen far more people who are just there to talk about normal, though often nerdy, things like game design, drawing, animating, programming, tech, etc. And that is my personal reason for using VR Chat, I want to meet and talk to people with similar interests. I may look different from what I am in real life, but I'm still very much just the same regular dude I am outside of VR.
The one thing in your video I want to add on to is the snowflake argument. Though I personally can laugh off furry haters, there are more than enough people in the community with mental illnesses and depression. For a lot of them, insults hit way too close to home, especially if they're already being bullied in real life by people that threaten and commit acts of violence, or even just degrade them socially. I've been there and it isn't fun. That being said, there are of course also people that get unreasonably upset at others for saying negative things about furries, even if they are just meming. But, those cases are far less frequent and more often than not, people are quite justified in being upset.
Anyways I've rambled on for far too long, so if anyone actually reads this, thank you!
1. The Virtuefurence Map is actually 1:1 based on the Estrel Hotel in Berlin, which has held the annual furry convention "Eurofurence" since 2014. And that's just one of the numerous major furry conventions around the world.
2. The most popular definition of furry/furry fandom consists of two elements: a) people fond of anthropormorphic animals, and b) acknowledging the presence of the fandom and consider themselves as parts of the community. Doesn't matter if you have fursonas, furry avatars, fursuits or else as they're not obligatory for being furries.
3. Just like human societies, the furry community is composed of all kinds of personalities and traits, you may see artists, nerds, gamers, anime/sci-fi fans, roleplayers, scientists, occasionally, while cringy ones, trolls, mental diseased patients, horny furries do exist as well, and the fandom generally holds greater acceptance towards LGBTQ+ members, avoid holding specific stereotypes is advised.
4. The fandom offers chances to express yourself with all kinds of ways, fursonas, avatars, fursuits, commissioned drawings, literature, musics are just common medium. By the way numerous content creators have benefited from taking commissions from furries and even make ends meet around the world.
Sorry for my nerdiness but the video doesn't seem to reach the core of what furries are. Hope this helps.
They guy with a frying pan around 1:55 really was looking good lol Thanks so much for uploading this! That was me when I think I just got my vrheadset! That was so awesome to see it again after so long! If you ever want to hang, the names Lostwolf527!
Stinky
11:33 omg. I'm in this video.
I'm pretty sure that is me dancing as unity-chan on the right side.
Also, Wo1fie is a great DJ. I love his sets!
Bro is almost at 10k, im waiting for this moment. These videos are getting more effort put into them and that's fantastic
The furry fandom is the most welcoming community in the world because true furries just want to make other people smile
Thats one of the biggest lies ive ever heard
@@hitwid how so
@@poi-tl1nx the evil have been feedinf nightslasher so much that he thinks that the furry community is good which is very far away from the truth
As a furry, I find the furry community to be one of the most polarizing communities, and it can be tough to get into the eye of the hurricane that is the community.
So basically the simplest way to put it is that Furries are an art subculture. Specifically they like and appreciate Anthromorphic media and artwork. There are other art movements out there as well for example impressionists or surrealists, really there is no difference it's just a different style of art! "Anthromorphic" art is any media that has animal characters with human like traits, they could walk on two legs, wear clothes, and talk. Movies like "Wolfwalkers" and "The Cat Returns" are good examples.
I love hanging out with furries, just because of how accepting and chill people they are!
Oh no. 0:31 it's me
Caught in 1080p60!?!?
You did good dude. It’s not every day I see a genuinely nice video talking about our community ;)
Any furry I've ever met has always been super chill and a cool person to hang around. I feel like because people target and troll them so much, a lot of them have learnt just to not give a damn about anyone's opinion of them. They always respect others even though so many people disrespect them.
I’ve been in the community for a long time it’s so welcoming, fun, expressive. I find it to be where I belong.
the intro was enough to make me laugh, cant wait for the video hell yeah
edit: oh my god, ITS SO GOOD! KEEP IT UP TWICE!
Thx 😊
@@TwiceVR dont thank me, i should be thanking you for adding flavour to my day. seriously, i get some serious giggles out of these, and im sure many other people do. you brighten everyones day up with these. dont stop pushing man, really an inspiration.
Oh shot 10k is almost here, Let’s go!
Hype, congratulations
Such a weird amount of my friends between middle and high school turned out to be furries to the point that I’m like 90% sure all my other friends suspect me of being a furry, but my experience seems to be exactly what the one guy at the end said. About half of them are just laid back and fucking hilarious and the other half are some combination of sjw and/or openly sexual deviant. There’s like a divide between the two types and they rarely seem to associate with one another
what about laid back and sexual deviant?
@@macky1660 what? I was saying some are normal people but people only notice the weirdos
@@clayw8884 they were just saying that there's laid-back non-sjw sexual deviants too lol
@@elith6930 sorry I'm a little retarded
considering you unironically use the term "sjw" your version of hilarious is probably calling people slurs idk man
I've been one for years and it goes really deep there's different branches of the community where some make and sell characters, theres some that like wearing suits, some who don't or have no interest in it, and a whole lot more.. I have a lot of furry characters and when in vrchat I usually use a dragon avatar I found. Most people want to use their fursonas in vrchat but since it's so hard to make/really expensive to commission, most people don't.. However I have seen some people with custom avatars of their sonas and they're pretty cool
Also I'm aware I'm like 2 months late but I just recently found your channel and you seem pretty cool
a private DELUX hotel suite just to eat out LUNCH?
sounds LEGIT
IKR?!
Might just invite my family for lunch AND dinner!
As a commission artist I had a lot of experience with furries and they generally are really nice and approachable people. Many furries' fursonas and avatars of choice do look off-putting in my eyes to varying degrees, but I won't just judge people based on a character or general look they personally enjoy.
It's stupid how people still, in this day and age, are very prone to hating on others just for liking something they don't.
The furry community is the most accepting tbh & tbh is like any other fandom. There is love towards it and there are people that dont understand so they hate on it
Heya!! The reason why furries (like myself) get offended easily is because of the amount of hate we actually get if someone is just being playful and talking shit idc about that sometimes they have some funny things to say I can take a joke but what gets me is when we are told to kys and actually told really hurtfull things ive been a furry for around 5 years and most days when I interact with the fandom there is always at least one person hating and we are always so hesitant of other people is because if someone isn’t a furry we are use to people just talking shit to us so we just expect it I’m glad you made this video!! I hate peoples that say we can’t take a joke we can take a joke but when you’re just saying kys that’s not really a joke and it just gets old after a while hope this informed you a little on some of the reasons most furries are hesitant and scared to talk to non furries :3 you definitely got the wrong end of the stick tho XD some of them people where so creepy!!
I mean yeah people Don understand about furry in general it easy to hate furry then love them
Awesome video and topic! You should interview the transformers community in VRChat sometime in the future. It’s a fun community with friendly and nice people and you’d love it!
I like that you’re exploring new worlds and looking at new groups and cultures of people.
I consider myself a furry as well, I like when people are genuinely interested and want to know things.
As a fellow furry, I can say that the furry community on VR chat is basically just like the ones that you'll probably see when going to normal Furry conventions or communities. The people that you meet there are super nice and calm compared to the edgy 13-year-olds that try their best to scare you with their demon fursonas. Overall, I say that everyone should at least befriend a furry, mainly because the communities are super chill and their overall just some cool people to be around.
I'm a free I got into it about 16 years ago they help me in a way that I didn't think anybody else could I have anxiety disorder and watching the videos of them at conventions got me strong enough to actually go and take part of it since then you're like one big family always willing to help you out
I know this is way off topic from this video but I love your content and I'm so glad I found your channel and your why I started making vr content thank you have a good day twice
Thanks man I appreciate it! ☺️
11:00 i completely agree with this. Some furries get way too deep into it and i think it can be unhealthy to forget you're only just human. It's okay to be self aware and be detached, i think taking things lightly help not taking at heart when people are being butth*les. I think it's important to not let things hurt or offend you too easily, especially if it's something people don't have the patience to understand.
Also make fun of yourself! That's one of the best ways not to get (emotionally) hurt, take all that negativity as a joke
9:48 A wild Pikachu has appeared
Me: YEEES! PIKACHU, 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
As a furry who has a fursuit and plays vrchat I LOVE THIS COMUNITY
actually I took a college course about furries so I know about the historey and lore of furries. It all started when President John F. Kennedy authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. It's not common knowledge, however the bay of pig was in fact a bay of pig people. These people were pretending to be strange humanoid pig creatures. To kennedy's surprise however, the pig people were much stronger than anticipated. During a second attempt at invading the bay of pigs in 1963, the military brought bacon to fend off the pig people. Unfortunately their intel was wrong as the pig people had transformed into wolf people. The bacon backfired and they were slaughtered... The enemy wolf people were dubbed "Furries."
Everyone feared the furries. But eventually people learned to coexist and they formed their own island nation where furries prosper and yes you guessed it, play Vrchat. It is estimated that 69% of vrchat players are located in the furry island nation of Furrytopia.
lmao the conflict at 3:30 is literally just any other day in something as simple as a public among us lobby in vrc, funny shit though.
the cat just hits the fan NOOOO
Needs more views ngl. Liked the drop kicking part.
The green Rex at 9:15 most likely said no to the questions as we get a lot of people, especially in furhub, who come in to troll and ask extremely inappropriate questions. They often start with an innocent "hey can we ask you some questions about furries?" so a safe bet if you just want to chill is to say no and ignore or block them, unfortunately. Less popular furry worlds tend to be free of those trolls
I've been waiting for this! ^^
Aezuki I got your back next time I see that kid I will give him the 1,2
I really like how real you make it. You keep it funny, show the weird things and all the amazing and cute things.
I would like to point out on the intro that when they walked over to the cat there was specifically Minecraft sounds when you walk on grass. I can recognize any Minecraft sound used in something that isn't necessarily related to Minecraft, I just recognize it. ✨🦊👍
I really appreciate you showing how great the furry community is, as a furry myself I always want to help and support the furry community. Thank you for doing your part and keep it up with the amazing content! :3
5:04 When you go shoping and some random kid start staring at you for no reason.
You've been in my recommendations too much recently. You deserve a sub.
Love the videos man, keep it up
Imagine being a moderator on desktop. you lost all argumentive power the second you started the game with a stiff back.
100k quaility video as always, keep it up!
WICKER BEAST SQUAADD 11:15 I FEEL U HOMIE
I've found the furry Community very warm and welcoming. Yes there are dics like anywhere but overall its a brilliant and chilled place to be.
Your definition of what a furry is was spot on. I have never seen anyone outside the fandom ever get it right on as you did.
Now you have more spastic specialized definitions for each individual person of why they are in the fandom and what the fandom is to them their selfs. My spastic reason is that I like dressing up as animals in what we call within the fandom as a fursuit. A fursuit is just a costume of a animal that a furry wears. As far as I am aware of I have more fursuits than any other furry has. From just heads to a full fursuit which covers my entire body in the costume I own over 70 fursuits. Many furries like collecting artwork where I like collecting fursuits.i happen to like what is called a realistic fursuit which just means that the costume is more a realistic stile compared to a toon fursuit which is on the toony side of the spectrum. Most furries don't own any form of a fursuit for many reasons. The most common reason is that they just have no desire to own one. Then there are the furs who just can't afford one as fursuits can be extremely expensive as its not unknown for a fursuit to run over ten thousand dollars. Most fursuits run from as low as five hundred dollars just for a head to into being three or four thousand dollars for a nice full fursuit. Another reason that a fur may.not want to own a fursuit is that they are extremely hot to wear. A fursuit can be 20 degrees or even hotter than the room that they are standing in and even worse outside in direct sunlight.
Was the visual effect at 10:20 an actual in-game recording, or post processing done during video editing?
In game I think
@@cheesesticks749 Thanks for your assessment.
@@handle-with-care you're welcome I only think that because it happend to me once
@@cheesesticks749 Good to know there's some actual evidence behind your insight. Have an awesome day mate!
Yes it was in-game footage. Some dudes avatar blinded me
It’s really annoying how the hate boils down to “they are cringe” “they are chronically online” “hide your pets” and “fatherless”.
Oh, forgot to comment that "Fursona", like "Steamsona" in the SteamPunk crowd, is derived from "Persona", as in the personal character/fictional alter-ego that a given person likes to play as. Both terms are portmanteaus of their respective fandoms + the word persona, as in "Fursona" = "FURry perSONA" or "Steamsona" = "STEAMpunk perSONA". This can even be extended to VTubers' "Twitchsonas", or online roleplayers' "websonas", or... Well, I think you get the idea, nyao. -_^
Thx for seeing us in a good way, most people won't be so kind.
11:05 that’s not the reason why people bully furries.
i became a part of the furry fandom in 2018 im starting to slip a bit out of the fandom, but i still call myself a furry since i draw my oc's from time time and still love anthropomorphic animals, im really glad that when i joined the first thing i saw was the nice and cute part, i found a really cute video of a fursuit of a dutch angel dragon and i fell in love with it and made my own fursona that ended up being a dutchie(dutch angel dragon) since its the first interaction i had with the fandom and they're really cute. alot of furries draw, but not all of them and there arent actually that many furries that have a fursuit compared to how big the community is. thanks for making this video and putting us in a good light, it makes me and alot others very hapy!
Bro your cousin is a fucking legend 6:21 hahah
Bro, this video and the comment section is so wholesome - I love it
Honestly, just from a personal standing, the furry community has been one of the nicest, most caring, and all around wholesome (except for the... well...) and generally accepting to everyone around them. As a furry myself, sure maybe it's just me being one of those "My bad bitches can do no wrong, they are the baddest of bitches and i love them" people but, no it just- well, I quite adore the furry fandom/community.
Gonna be honest, I enjoy the furry community, they are really nice, and the most sweetest people you’ll ever meet
10:01 MY GOD HES HES RIGHT
Yooooo, I was chilling in the Furhub instance you joined! Hope you had a great time making the video! I'm at the bottom of the photo at 0:44!
See when UA-camrs do this my brain is like “Ok what dumb crap are they going to say, I know they aren’t a furry” Watches whole thing impress of there reaction “U earn my respect” But yes most people do bully furries a lot, but I ignore them, bc if I can be myself and who I want to be on vr, then idc what everyone else thinks
Exactly its a VIRTUAL WORLD....they are literally data that you can just ignore.
boi that world with the hotel looks fucking amazing wtf
The furry fandom itself has many many contacts.
Many of them being digital artists.
Word of advice, you have an idea that requires a digital artist, hire a few furries.
Ya man furries are real chill it’s just the bad ones that are the loudest sooooo… anyone seeing this just give um a chance
The thing I love about furries in general other than their wholesomeness is the creatively they radiate, fun fact roughly 85% of all published Vrchat worlds are made by furries.
Fursonas are a form of self identifiers mine is a changeling(like the starwars species) who is mostly a feline specifically a cheetah snow leopard saber cat tribred. Self expression is key in the fandom.
Also I cant deny it, we are fucking blursed at times.
im waiting for my 1st furry avatar to be ready, my friend making it for me... gonna have fun with it for beatsaber and VR chat
Woaa- your friend is awesome!
@@TwiceVR .. its just nanachi from made in abyss anime, but with some modification 🤭NNNNNNNnnnnaaaaathing too complicated
nice video man, u did the fandom well :)
Lmao the beginning loved it 💀
I hurt my knee falling down 😞
Nice video, surprisingly. Respect for being adequate bro, and, as you wanted, my comment on your definition: it's alright, though there should be a mention that furry can mean the antropomorphic animal character itself too! Some people tend not to know about this.