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A lot of the anti-furry hysteria -if it can be called that- was pretty rampant back around 2005-2009ish. I can't really describe why, I think a large part of it was -and I'm putting this in basic, basic terms- because of some of the more vocal folks who pushed what they did in the bedroom onto people who really didn't want to know those kinds of things. Not to mention the implications of bestiality, which is still pretty illegal in most places. Not all furries are into bestiality, but sadly, there's been a few notable examples that furthers this perception (i.e. Mr. Hands).

And there's the lifestylers who take it to an extreme and used terms like "fursecution" unironically (not as much anymore). Which, hey, if they wanna live that way, I got no issues with as long as it doesn't harm anyone else or any animals. But you gotta admit... "fursecution"? Yeah.

Plus, furry fandom often of overlaps with some... interesting fetishes (that, frankly, are pretty tame compared to some of the stuff that goes on in fandoms like Supernatural or BBC Sherlock, tbh), but again, there's the types that like to leave that stuff out in the open and the people who are all "Do not want" raise a big stink about it.

But then came the Brony surge from about 2011-2014ish and that diverted a lot of negative attention from the furry fandom (from what I've observed; there was a significant anti-Brony/MLP sentiment in the fandom going on at the time as well), but I think too, the changing levels of what's accepted in society has changed dramatically since 2008-ish, that's a factor as well.

tl;dr: Some rotten apples ruined the barrel for people in regards to furries, but overall the anti-furry hysteria isn't nearly as bad as it used to be.

Edited 2016-03-14 23:33 (UTC)

I blame SomethingAwful for most of the anti-furry sentiment throughout the 00s, and by extension 4chan. Those two sites exhibited a major influence on internet culture in their day, so it's only natural that most of the internet was pretty virulently anti-furry.

I still remember reading about SA's "Furry Concentration Camp." Classy bunch of people.

Which makes the daily post-release Zootopia threads on /co/ all the more hilarious to me, because there was a lot of collective hand-wringing in the lead up to the movie, because furries.

But you're pretty much on the money there. Those sites had a huge part in fanning the flames of those sentiments, but it's really not that big of a deal anymore in this day and age, I think. Not after some of the more... interesting stuff that's cropped up since fandoms as a whole migrated away from LiveJournal formats to more open places like Twitter and Tumblr. (Like otherkin becoming more and more prominent since those days, but that's all I'm going to say there)

I think once otherkin had someone to make fun of in Na'vi-kin the shame bubble burst.

Notice how 4chan changed its tune right around 2010, when they fixated on MLP:FiM. Hmmmm!

The CSI episode which was all about yiffing and fursuits probably didn't help.

That episode was hilarious. But you know I thought it also actually did a decent job. It did like to show the freak side of the furry fandom (as it does with a lot of groups, actually) but Grissom was honestly the best voice furries had in their own defense. But that's always been his character -- he's fascinated by human behavior and provides reasonable, rational defenses and explanations for things that other people choose to simply judge.

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