[ SECRET POST #2218 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2218 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 079 secrets from Secret Submission Post #317.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I am hoping this is a troll secret, but I will try to treat it like OP is actually serious or semi-serious.

Honestly, I was on the internet in the early to mid 90's when furries started getting attention and in the early 2000's when the hatred for furries basically started peaking. MLP's popularity has almost nothing to do with the overblown hatred for furries dying down, it's been doing it for years and honestly I haven't seen any of the really bad stuff directed towards them for 5 years or more at least. The internet just grew tired of hating them and they never really deserved 90% of what they got anyway.

You have to realize that when they first started appearing on the internet, it was in the days when many people had never used anything like it before, and few realized that any of the less normal hobbies or fetishes even existed. This was a time when the popular perception was dictated largely through media, most people knew about things like D&D through the 80's satanic cult scare and 99 out of a 100 people didn't know or care what a trekkie was, much less knew there were actual conventions. The internet exposed these hobbies, and put them in a place that made finding them easy and quick. So the people reacted and furries became the designated punching bag of the internet, because, if nothing else internet fandom contains many raging hypocrites who are perfectly willing to pile scorn on those they see as inferior or worse in much the same manner that wider society scorned them. In the end, the internet furry hate has mostly been coasting on that early inertia for years now and most people have gotten tired of it, there's nothing furries have done that hasn't been done by other fandoms, hobbyists, or groups over the years. Really, what you need to realize is that furries just aren't that special, they are just like any other geeky hobby with fursuits instead of cheap renfair armor or colorful anime wigs.

Even today, with so much expansion of the internet the vast majority of people aren't even going to know what a furry is, much less manage to care at all about whether or not they should tolerate them. It was amusing back in the 90's and early 2000's, but it was like the modern day hatred for boy bands and the Twilight books, amusing at first but soon gets annoying to the point where the people wasting so much time and effort hating these groups starts to look just as sad and crazy as the over the top fans they are making fun of. It's almost like a meme in the way it spreads, so many people I talked to back in the day never really knew anything about furries other that the worst of the worst that gets reposted on sites like Something awful or Portal of evil they just spread the hate around like so many people who posted about the cake being a lie even though they had never played Portal; and in the end, like most memes it became over-saturated to the point where people just stopped caring.

[(Anonymous)]

People like to decide they're better than people.

Just like they like to look at one bad example of a group and then decide that every other member of that group is just an awful awful person deserving of dehumanization.

When we decide to no longer see a group (fandom or interest group or race or gender) as human, we become much worse than we think they are.