As someone with an anime profile Pic, that’s fair
I see we’re picking and choosing which shit posts we take seriously here
As a wise man once said:
fake taking it serious for the meme
That’s some good bait, right there.
It’s an interesting source of data. This post currently has 508 upvotes and 148 downvotes so I guess about 22.5% of lemmy users like anime.
Bait for what? I don’t get it
Some have called me a master at baiting! It’s all about that quality stuff that you know people can’t resist!
You’re truly the master baiter
Thank you for showing us how to master bait 🙏🙏🙏 visual learner btw
Oooh, you struck a nerve with this one!
I care not!
Holy macaroni, the seething. Remember this thread next time Lemmy wants to pretend it’s better than Reddit.
Was thinking the opposite, thought lemmy was above the unprompted furry bashing and this post made me doubt the maturity of a lot of people here.
You’re on the shitposting community. Unprompted bashing is the norm, you’re not supposed to have a meltdown about it.
Oh well, thank you for your service
Depends on the anime, IMO. PFP of Yusuke Urameshi or Yang Wen-li/Reinhard von Lohengramm, or even Zero/Lelouch? You might be saying some real shit. 🤷😅
hi sorry can someone who speaks weeb please translate??
I’m just being a weeb elitist, nothing more to it! 😂
Nine tenths of the anime I see on lemmy is little girls. Most popular? Little girl lesbians kissing. I can no longer take anime fans seriously.
And this is from a guy who started on Robotech as a teen! Anyway, here’s my wife.
I think you might be surprised how round the diagram is of specialists, weebs, and furries is.
Ohh look who cares SO MUCH what other people’s avatars look like
Imagine the flak you get looking as gay as a rainbow online, SMH my head
Double-checked that the username wasn’t a LatentFurry
it’s 2025 and people still pretend to hate furries lol
Hate? I dont think its hate to be ambivalent.
I neither hate nor judge them, but all the yiff shit around here grosses me out, block it at every occasion.
Agreed. I just block the stuff I’m not interested in viewing in my feed and move on with my day.
There are so many better things to reserve my ire for that someone posting their softcore fursona doesn’t make the cut, sorry to say.
If you’re gonna hate, hate productively. Now I’m off to judge someone who pronounces it jif and not gif, should the opportunity present itself.
“i don’t hate them, but the degenerate things they do grosses me out” like this aint even hidden, imagine saying this about any other marginalized group
any other marginalized group
Lmao furry lives matter!
Are you not judging them as “gross”?
Gross to me personally, yes.
Bro thinks this is 2014 frfr
furry hate in 2005 was 100% homophobia lol it’s never really gone away either. it’s largely that nowadays too. it’s a way to hate queer people without outwardly hating queer people. they think we don’t see it. it’s also just dumb as hell and a waste of your one life to spend any amount of time literally hating people for a hobby that involves playing pretend and using their imagination. oh no, the horror, they can access something you can’t anymore.
I think it’s the drug-fuelled sex parties that weirds people out.
Like there’s less sex at tupperware conventions. Humans are horny a/f, no matter which subgroup you pick.
Hey, I’m not making judgements here, but it shouldn’t be surprising that fucking people in animal costumes while railing ketamine and MDMA comes across as weird to some people.
That’s also by far not what the average furry does. Any group will have people like that.
I don’t mind being portrayed as weird, because who isn’t? I do take umbrage at being portrayed as an oversexed drug addict though.
Yeah I mean, I get that it’s not all of you. I suppose I don’t make that clear in my first comment though. My bad.
yeah if you’re a loser
🤷♂️
You just made that up but okay. And you can’t put a whole group of people together and be like “yep they’re all drug addicts having sex parties.” That’s how racism works.
“Racist.” Fuck off, you chose to be a furry.
Every furry I’ve known personally has participated in these.
Clean up your scene and people won’t associate that with you.
I’m sorry, the furry president hasn’t been aware of what’s going on, but I’ve sent him an email and it will be dealt with shortly.
Furries are people that like anthropomorphic animals. I’m not responsible for what others do.
Also what’s wrong with sex and drugs?
Nothing as far as I’m concerned. It’s the fur suit orgy that makes it weird.
pretend
dude lol it’s fine. it’s a hobby. you know it, i know it, everyone knows it. zoomers are fine with furries, alpha even more so. you’re not going to win this just stop. it’s so dumb.
zoomers are fine with furries, alpha even more so. you’re not going to win this just stop.
Who’s trying to win anything? Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
weird that you’re focusing on minors when i mentioned two generations
if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along
most furries are normal about their hobby is the overall point here, and one that i have seen spread like wildfire online the last 5 or so years. i have seen furry posts on TikTok receive a ton of attention and all the comments are some variation of “why did people hate furries?” or “furries seem cool.” it might be cringey but being cringe is not embarrassing anymore. catch up. it’s freeing.
I was gonna write a response to this but it was pretty much just a rephrase of my other response. tl;dr I don’t hate furries as mentioned and idc if you’re amongst the “normal about their hobby” crowd but in more than one instance I’ve encountered people very not normal about their hobby and I choose not to associate with them. 🤷🏾♂️
Weird that you think that a bunch of 13 year olds being ok with something means OP is lying about not being ok with it…
Holy shit, is Gen Z the new Millennials? Gen Z is commonly agreed to be the generation born between roughly 1995 and 2012, meaning that the oldest of them would be 30.
Existential crisis aside, my real point is that I’ve been around the internet a long time - long enough to have seen the start of hate against furries - and I’d like to take your second part and play with it in that context because I’ve heard it all before somewhere.
For the record, I don’t “hate” furries, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a furry, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
So let’s start with the good faith interpretation, as furry is a subculture/hobby, so we’ll replace it with something similar:
For the record, I don’t “hate” Marvel fans, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re a Marvel fan, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
Kind of a weird statement, as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else, but not the weirdest thing to say by any means. But, knowing the history of the internet in this regard, let’s take your statement and change it to represent what the anti-furry sentiment actually is:
For the record, I don’t “hate” gay people, I won’t stop talking to someone because they’re gay, but if you make it impossible for me to look past it, we’re probably not gonna get along.
That’s right, the furry hatred was thinly veiled bigotry all along. There’s a reason that they used “furfag” in the old days. It’s been a longstanding thing for hating furries to be “cool” because it was an easy way for bigots to hate minorities openly. Furries have major minority populations in the fandom (I think like twice the size compared to the world? Probably even higher), and so hating on furries was an easy way to hate on minorities - especially LGBT people as the fandom is commonly connected to the LGBT community in the cultural zeitgeist. So when they said that the OP isn’t going to win, I believe it’s in relation to that history - especially the whole “it’s cool to hate furries” thing that still seems to pop up amongst young kids even today.
My favorite Tshirt says, “Be Gay. Do Crimes.”
I love the LGBTQ community and am often mistakenly assumed to be a part of it, to which I take zero offense (and usually don’t bother correcting).
People that make every aspect of their personality revolve around being gay annoy me and I usually don’t associate with them.
People that make every aspect of their personality revolve around being a furry annoy me and I usually don’t associate with them.
as there’re weird people who take it too far in any fandom, whether that’s Marvel, trains, anime, furries, or whatever else
Precisely.
but not the weirdest thing to say by any means.
Yet multiple people are coming out to let me know that I’m homophobic, bigoted, etc.
Can we also just take a moment to acknowledge that we’re in the shit posting community?
For the record, you sound exactly like the type of person a furry wouldn’t ever want to befriend so worry not, bud
I don’t like furries
WELL FURRIES DON’T LIKE YOU
Like yeah okay? lol
I mean that’s ok lol. I have a small number of former and current friends that are or were furries, they wear their foxtail keychain and have their drawings as their phone background and we go about our business. At my college, I had two classes with someone who was not so subtle, and would somehow always find a way to talk about their fursona… that’s their business, I don’t hate them for doing it, but they’re not the kinda person I wanna hang out with.
If that makes me a bigot I’m generally not a very good one.
Incredibly based, you got them to crawl out lmao. How did such a bad bait work so well?
Furry anime avatars get a block.
And I thought Lemmy was an open and accepting space
This genuinely sounds like an interaction between two „gigachad super based“ 14 year olds. Op even replying with a gigachad image.
How about a spinning skull gif?
I’m sorry, but if it isn’t a bronze age statue head or a girl in a bikini laying on the hood of a sports car, I assume this person doesn’t have the IQ sufficient for my wit and wisdom.
