WinterFluff

Here we go again, rewriting history to suit an agenda. The furry fandom originated in the early 1980s as an offshoot of science fiction and comics conventions. Fans gathered to celebrate anthropomorphic characters in stories, artwork, and literature. It began with discussions sparked by works like Steve Gallacci’s Albedo Anthropomorphics at sci-fi events, leading to fanzines, art sharing, and the first dedicated convention, Confurence, in 1989. It was never founded on kink, fetish, or LGBTQ+ identity. That claim is flatly false. For decades, the fandom focused on creative expression such as, drawing, writing, and appreciating anthropomorphic worlds rooted in fantasy, animation, and speculative fiction. Long-time participants remember a very different scene. one centered on shared artistic passion rather than public sexual displays. Starting in the mid-2010s, an influx of tourists, often aggressively pushing queer ideology, dramatically shifted the culture. Conventions increasingly tolerated, then normalized, overt kink, public fetish behavior, and fringe elements including zoophilia. What was once a niche hobby for creative fans devolved into spaces where explicit sexual content, murrsuiting, and boundary-pushing degeneracy became commonplace and defended as inclusion. Dissenters face exclusion, harassment, or being labeled bigots for refusing to celebrate it. Veterans who have been in the fandom far longer than these tourists can state the obvious that it was never this degenerate. The core appeal was always anthropomorphic storytelling and art, not turning hotel ballrooms into open kink festivals or demanding everyone affirm paraphilias under threat of social expulsion. The tourists didn’t build this fandom. They infiltrated and corrupted it. If you want to center your identity and kinks, create your own spaces. Stop hijacking and ruining one that was never about you. Long-time furries know the truth, and the evidence is visible at every recent convention.

I don't think we should let conservatives or their sympathizers call themselves furries anymore